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Children Who Interrupt
Pin It Look at the couple above. This picture puts a smile on my face...and a little jealousy in my heart. They look so relaxed and appear to really enjoy each others company. They are having quality conversation and no interruption. Sounds marvelous, doesn't it? In the last few weeks we have talked at great length about the importance ...
Natural Consequences
Pin It This is a repost from a Summer of 2009. Bubs is older now but we still use natural consequences to help our children learn the importance of obedience. I love natural consequences. I think allowing life to provide its own consequences is the best form of discipline. But using them with younger children can be difficult to ...
Making a Toddler Talk
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 ...
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 ...