Getting Kids Organized: Tips that Work!
Teaching Children to Organize Their Possessions: Five Tips for Parents
If you’d look under the children’s beds or in the playrooms of most houses, you might think there is no way to get your kids organized. ...
Pursuit of Comfort
One of the greatest fallacies of our time is the mistaken social rule that “happiness means being comfortable”.
When was the last time that you saw modern-day movie where the hero or heroine was happy to be in an impoverished and uncomfortable state?...
I Want To Scream!
Dear Ellen,
Sometimes I get so mad at my kids! Yesterday, we were getting ready for a family reunion that our family will be hosting next week. My thirteen-year-old daughter suggested that we create place cards and matching centerpieces for the ...
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In case you haven't heard from me in a while, no, I wasn't ignoring you! However, I had emergency surgery and was in the hospital for several days last week, and now I'm starting to get back to myself. (Nothing life-threatening, thankfully, ...
Giving Your Child Effective Attention!
As an Early Childhood educator, I have learned that ATTENTION is a survival need- not a manipulation of adults.
After World War II, orphans living in a clean, hygienic and basically attentive facility did not thrive. In fact, almost ...
How To End Temper Tantrums
I will never forget the man whom I met at my in-law's home last year. Standing at six-feet tall, with broad shoulders, and a hardened military expression of seriousness on his face, he appeared intimidating- even to me. Then I heard that he ...
How To Eliminate Sibling Rivalry
"A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved." an ancient quote proclaims.
Parents can derive much comfort from the universality of sibling rivalry. At the very beginning of time, the first two siblings, Cain and Abel, did not get along with each other, and ...
The Golden Rule of Punishing Kids
There are modern parenting advisors who believe that punishing children is off-limits. They say that proper behaviors can be instilled in children without any punishments. However, punishment need not be defined as corporal punishment.
Banning corporal punishment and hitting is a reasonable position. ...
How to Handle Other People’s Children
An oft-heard subject of controversy is disciplining other peoples' kids.
What do you do when your children have playmates at your home who are misbehaving?
I don't think there is an easy answer to this difficulty.
I have heard some parents advising that, "Whatever happens ...
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