Remembering the Fun of Your Family - Working Parent Strategies
For the first four years of my sons life, I was not only a working mom, but a working single mom. Lets just say it had its ups and downs. I sure did learn a lot about myself and those four years taught me more than any other time in my life. [...]
You have two kids who are 14 months apart. How cute, they look alot alike…are they twins? One is taller and more mature than the other, so that can\’t be.
Two can be a blessing, yet can also be trouble at times. I will be writing a series of \”sibling\” articles in the future about raising [...]
The Top 7 Tips On How Kids Can Save Money & Stop Wasting All Of Their Allowance At The Candy Store
Your 10-year-old son has just come back from the candy store, the day after you gave him his allowance with his pockets full of candy. Not that theres actually anything drastically wrong with that, as long as he brushes his teeth after & still eats his dinner there shouldnt be any real problems apart [...]
10 Positive Ways to Handle Behavior Mistakes
Two boys in a first grade classroom were arguing loudly over an item they both wanted to use at the same time.
Their teacher approached them in a friendly way and said, Boys, it sounds like you two are having a problem. Lets talk it out.
Then she sat, folded her hands in her lap, and [...]
How Do I Handle This As A Peaceful Parent? V
In both your lecture and book you emphasize the importance of making dreary tasks fun as well as negotiations with your children. Does everything need to be fun? Is everything supposed to turn into a negotiation? Can I ever just say \”Do what I ask because I ask it of you?\”
The simple [...]
Keeping Kids Away From Electonic Screens
Childhood today is an indoor activity. A recent Newspoll survey found that children under 10 spend less than ten per cent of their free time playing outdoors. The older children become the less vigorous activity they engage in. The average time for 5-6 year old children involved in vigorous activity was 4.3 hours. By the [...]
Why do teachers give out homework when all it does for many children and their families is cause stress? Does your child\’s homework cause you both stress every time it must be done? Is your child fighting you when you try to get him do his homework?
You are not alone. Why do teachers give out [...]
I\’ve been thinking a lot this past week about the dilemmas of childhood hierarchies and brand name idolization. What interests me about the problem is that not all kids play the hierarchy game, making fun of other kids in order to be part of an \”in\” crowd. So what\’s the difference? What makes the nice [...]
How to Listen to Your Teenager Without Appearing to Have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
In one of the Family Circus cartoon strips, the little girl looks up at her father, who is reading the newspaper, and says, \”Daddy, you have to listen with your eyes as well as your ears.\” That statement says almost all there is to say about listening. Being a good listener means focusing attention on [...]
Social Skills and Feelings Education: Turn Your Kids\’ Favorite Media into Your Best Teaching Tool
These simple single-syllable words: sad, mad, and glad, are the easy first emotion words for children to use in feelings talk. Then, as they grow, and their every day vocabulary expands, the important job for parents, educators and caregivers, is to help their kids develop the awareness and the more expansive words to be emotionally [...]
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