Can you make a toddler talk? Well it depends who you ask. But in the case of our little Peanut, I believe you can. Bubs was a slow talker. He ended up in speech because of it. Sweet Pea talked very early. Little Man was having conversations before some kiddos can walk. (Okay this is an exaggeration but not much of one!) Now Peanut ...
Parenting
Where Do You Find Discipline Ideas?
See if you can relate to a portion of this mom's email question: I struggle coming up with ideas of discipline. Where do you get your ideas/inspiration for wise parenting? It feels like there is less sound advice available. My family lives far away, so I can't follow their example and don't always ask for their advice. My ...
Little Ones Who Wake Up Way Too Early
If this is your first visit to our blog, welcome! We hope that you will stay awhile and check out the rest of Parenting to Impress Blog as well as our Free Preschool Curriculum website - ABCJesusLovesMe.com. Thanks for stopping by! After encouraging each of you to rise before your children to prepare for the day, I ...
Consequences that Work!
If this is your first visit to our blog, welcome! We hope that you will stay awhile and check out the rest of Our Out-of-Sync Life Blog as well as our Preschool Curriculum website - ABCJesusLovesMe.com. Thanks for stopping by! You know the saying, "Make the punishment fit the crime." And the older our kiddos get, the more I understand the ...
Is it Ever Too Late?
I'm taking a break from D2D to write a blog on parenting. More to ponder and pray about while cleaning! Do you ever feel like you want to start over? Clean the slate and start anew? Erase the wrong. This is true of so many areas of my life. I dream about shaking the wrong away as I would in a bad Etch-a-Sketch drawing. How ...
Spin a Chore
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“I Hate You!” he said.
"I hate you." He was mad because things weren't going his way. The issue was extremely minor but in his small view of life, he thought the issue was worth exploding over and then he lost it. This isn't the first time that I have heard these words come from my seven-year-old son's mouth. The hurtful phrase started about six months ago and ...
Helping Your Sensory Child Out of a Meltdown
It was the perfect scenario. Or so I thought. We had just left church. Grams was sitting in the back seat beside Bubs (age seven); cuddling the whole way home. We picked up pizza for supper and talked about the fun experiences we had had at church and during the day with family. With everyone sitting around the dinner table, someone mentioned ...
The Things I Hate About Myself
We all have them. Those attributes that cause us to scream out to God, "Why am I like this?". Those things we hate about ourselves. I shared examples of these traits in the post 25 Things (I Don't Want You to Know) About Me. But do you want to know what is interesting? For some reason, I expect my ...
How to Get a Child Into a Carseat without a Screaming Fit
How would you like to put your child in the carseat without a screaming fit? Does just the thought of this sound wonderful? What I am about to let you in on is a secret to success. In order for this to work though, you must set the expectations and be consistent. If you give in, you can kiss your dreams ...