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Aware parents accept the entire range of emotions and listen non-judgmentally to children’s expressions of feelings. They realize that they cannot prevent all sadness, anger, or frustration, and they do not attempt to stop children from releasing painful feelings through crying or raging. – Aletha Solter I’ve never really liked using distractions when Meredith is upset. For a [...] Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I read somewhere once that children are redirected or told no on average every nine seconds. Now, I have no idea how this stat came to be, because how would you study [...] I have started a few posts and then not actually finished them or hit publish over the last few days. I just don’t really feel like I have much interesting to say right now. But now Meredith is sleeping and I tried to lie down with her and she wouldn’t sleep, so I’m staring at this [...] One thing that video I posted in my last post got me thinking about again is praise. I think most people out there don’t even think there is any controversy or differing opinions on the use of praise. Praise is positive, and therefore must be a good thing, right? At the end of the video, he [...] Katherine over at Our Report Card posted this link on her blog: Ian Dunbar on dog-friendly dog training. It’s a 15 minute talk, but very interesting for dog owners, parents, and really anyone interested in relationships. A lot of what he says is exactly how I feel about being a parent, but he words it much [...] I’m no one’s lap dog, you can’t put me on a leash. I saw a lady with her son the other day. They were walking near a road, and when the boy so much as stepped off the sidewalk onto the grass nearest the road, she yelled at him that if he wouldn’t listen and stay [...] We have been pretty busy here, with company, weddings, fairs, and more. Plus, Meredith has been wanting to spend all of her awake time at the park here. Since we’re approaching rainy season and I want to spend less time on the computer anyway (especially now that she’s older), we tend to go there a lot [...] Something I (Kris) have noticed over my life is that most parents seem to think that there is a formula they have to follow. If they deviate, the world may in fact end…or at least their child will grow up to be a hooligan drug dealing prostitute and/or murderer. When the baby is young, that makes [...] There seem to be as many ways to try and make or coerce a child into doing chores as there are parents out there. My whole parenting style tries to avoid making or coercing my child into doing anything, and Kris and I have had discussions about chores and cleaning since before I was even pregnant. [...] |
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