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14 Ways To Show Your Kids You Love Them

In a few short weeks it will be Valentine’s Day. Looking for ways to show your kids how much you love them? Consider these 14 tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics. 1. Use lots of positive words with your children and avoid sarcasm. 2. When your child has a physical or emotional need, respond promptly and lovingly. Banish all put-downs from your parenting vocabulary. 3. Make an extra effort to use phrases like “I’m sorry,” “please” and “thank you.” 4. If your child is angry, upset, in a bad mood , or generally having a bad day, take the … Continue reading →

Discipline Do’s and Don’ts

As parents we are always looking for more effective techniques that show us how to deal with common problems that we all face. Discipline is one of those areas. In the November issue of Parents, they offer five tips for discipline do’s and don’ts. (1) Don’t Bribe— Most of us are guilty of bribing our kids at one time are another to either get them to do something or not do something. Giving our kids rewards for work well-done is okay but we have to resist the urge to reward them in other instances, for example, giving them candy to … Continue reading →

Discipline and the Plan of Salvation

I am the kind of person who overplans and overanalyzes pretty much everything. Lest you think I am exaggerating, at the age of thirteen, I worried that someone might break into our home, so I practiced walking around barefoot in the woods in case I had to flee, shoeless, in the middle of the night. So you can only imagine how far into overdrive I shifted before I gave birth to my daughter five and a half years ago. And if you are a parent, you can also imagine how much of that has gone out the window. Not that … Continue reading →

Discipline for Children

We are all born into this world with a sinful nature. You can see it in the demanding toddler, the mouthy preschooler, the mischievous grade-schooler… This nature needs to be tamed in us by discipline. Discipline and punishment are a bit different. In looking to the American Heritage Dictionary, the first definition of discipline is, “Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.” When we look at the definition of punish, it says, “To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.” So what should our objective … Continue reading →

More On Effective Discipline

My most recent parenting class looked at the topic of discipline more closely and even offered seven steps toward more effective discipline that I will provide later. As I am taking this class, I find myself asking questions such as why is effective discipline talked about so much today? Why is it so necessary for us single parents to have a consistent systematic way to train our children? I think that part of the answer to those questions lies with trying to fight today’s microwave culture. What I mean by microwave culture is that with the onset of new technology, … Continue reading →

Discipline is Not a Bad Word

During my last parenting class we discussed discipline and I want to share some of the key points with you. When some people hear the word discipline they shrink back or become very angry. Sometimes these reactions are due to memories of ineffective or even abusive discipline that they may have experienced as a child. Real discipline is not abuse, and it entails much more than just spanking. Discipline is an expression of our love for our children. Discipline sets healthy boundaries and issues consequences when those boundaries are broken. Children are not adults and should not be expected to … Continue reading →

Discipline and the Special Needs Child: An Act of Love

Even more than average children, the special-needs child requires appropriate discipline. I like to point to the example of Helen Keller, who as a blind and deaf child was initially allowed to roam freely in her house, eating off people’s plates, breaking and throwing things at will. Her amazing transformation into an intellectually gifted adult could not have happened without regulations and order. Without discipline, your child’s world is more frightening, more chaotic, and more challenging. Appropriate discipline is an act of love. The question is, how do we discipline a child with a disability? 1. Know your child’s motivators. … Continue reading →

Childhood Isn’t Easy – But Parenting Is Hard

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Psychology Today posted an article by Josh Jones LCSW-R titled: “Childhood Isn’t Easy but Parenting Is Hard”. Here are three things he recommends to parents: Differentiate Between Who They Are And What They Do “We judge everyone by what they do, but we judge ourselves by how we feel.” This is why the metrics of our life can look great to everyone, and yet, to ourselves, something can still feel off; no matter what I do, something inside still feels wrong. This is a painful way to live, and often the roots of it can be found in childhood. Being … Continue reading →

Things to Know About Attachment Parenting

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Do you practice attachment parenting? This type of parenting has become somewhat controversial. Those that practice it seem happy with it. Those that don’t often choose to share their opinion that this parenting style will somehow harm children (years later). Ultimately, it is up to each parent to decide what parenting style works best for them and their kids. Attachment Parenting is a parenting style that has eight principles to it. Each parent has a lot of leeway in how they interpret those principles and how they put them into action. Prepare for pregnancy, birth, and parenting – Parents remove … Continue reading →

School Suspends Fourth Grader for Using Imagination

It is typical for young children to re-enact the stories that they watch in a movie. One of the reasons they do this is simply because it is fun. In addition, children engage in imaginative play in order to figure out the world around them and where they might fit into it as an adult. Play can be an important component of learning. That being said, a fourth grader who is a student at Kermit Elementary School, in Kermit, Texas, was suspended for using his imagination in a way that is typical of children who have been inspired by a … Continue reading →