A toddler having a tantrum is not a fun thing to deal with or watch! I have had my fair share of them with my three kids. I saw when I used the following strategy their tantrums got shorter and the whole process of eliminating them was fairly short as well (as compared to other [...]
In today’s society we’ve been letting our kids slide on earning the money they get. Many parents give their kids whatever they want, plus an allowance. Preparing our children for adulthood is our job as parents. Here’s an e-mail I received from Jim Fay, co-founder of the Love and Logic Institute in [...]
As I sit here typing this my 5 year old is trying to quietly run back and forth between his room and the guest room where his older brother has be exiled to for the night. Getting my boys to bed at night, and staying in bed, can be such a tiring task! Ever been [...]
Good manners/good behavior are essential to giving and receiving respect from people from the time a person is a child all the way through adulthood. Here is what Kendra Smiley says about the subject in her latest newsletter:
“There’s no doubt that children are becoming more disrespectful at a young age,” says Dr. Gary [...]
Teaching children learning handwriting skills can be difficult when they have not yet obtained the fine motor skills necessary to grasp a pencil or crayon and controlling the lines they make with one. Children learning handwriting skills poses challenges for many children Pre-K through 5th Grade.
My 5 year old son, Sawyer, is in Jr. Kindergarten [...]