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Parenting Kids
How to Create Trust and Respect with Just Seven Words
How many times have you asked someone a question only to find out that the person you sought an answer from had no clue how to answer, much less desire to find the answer for you? As children we learn the word “no” by the age of two. It feels very powerful to say no. It … [Read more...] about How to Create Trust and Respect with Just Seven Words
“Retard” & “Retarded” – Teach Kids Now
Many children have uttered the term “retard” or “retarded” to express their dislike of someone or during an argument not thinking of the group of people they offend. Children – and many adults – get angry and that is a perfectly normal emotion but when they begin to feel as if … [Read more...] about “Retard” & “Retarded” – Teach Kids Now
Encouraging Kids to be Different
Now that it's almost the end of the school year and report time again, I remembered how I became too fat for ballet. Looking back, I didn't really REALLY have ballerina potensial , although I was very good at the "port-de-bra" thing where you stand still and wave first the left … [Read more...] about Encouraging Kids to be Different
Give that Back!
You have probably been down this road a few times. Your child has something, the iPad, a lollipop, their favorite toy, and they act out or do something they aren’t supposed to do. What do we often do, we take away whatever it is that they have. A likely response from a child is … [Read more...] about Give that Back!
Parenting viewpoints from parents in the trenches, because parenting doesn’t come with a manual. In addition to