Week Three

Parenting With Love and Logic Teaching Children Responsibility By Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay

Monday Oct 17th 6:00am-6:30am
Friday    Oct 21st 6:15am-6:30am

This time during my reading, I learned that as parents we gain control through our choices. Sometimes we get so frustrated at our kids trying to get them to stop what they are doing and to come eat or whatever we are wanting them to do. We want to be in control of our kids. We also want them to do what we want them to do when we want them to do it. A way that we can handle not getting so frustrated when it is time to eat is to tell our children that we will be serving dinner for the next thirty minutes and would love for them to come join us. But if not, than we'll hope to see them at breakfast. To establish control we need to concentrate on fighting battles that we know we can win. We must pick areas where we do have control over our kids. Then we need to offer choices in those areas.


Parenting Magazine

Wednesday Oct. 19th 10:20am-10:37am and 2:45pm-3:15pm

7 Mistakes Even Smart Parents Make - Fixed! By Christina Vercelletto

These seven mistakes are classic ones. Most of us have probably done almost, if not all, of them. They are:
1. Registering for every single baby product in existence - or, worse, buying it all yourself. they say instead ask a recent mom what she really used and what she didn't. Otherwise most of the items will never get used. It is okay to register for diaper, lots of diapers.
2. Preparing special meals for picky eaters. To fix this they say to have your child eat one food that you're eating at each meal, or just one each day, or even week.
3. Trying to stop a tantrum. They suggest just to leave. grab the child and find a place for the tantrum to run its course. The reason why is because by removing the audience it takes things down a notch.
4. Overexplaning. The extra info that we like to give often goes right over their heads which may add to frustration for the child. We just need to be short and direct.
5. Keeping children too busy. We need to just pick one or maybe two activites. Free, unstructured, creative play is the most important thing for a yound child.
6. Trolling the internet for health info. We need to look for sites that end in ".gov" or ".org"
7. Giving medicine incorrectly. Focus on the weight-based doing instructions, not age. Instead of spoons, use a medicine measuring device. Also, read labels carefully.