Week Six

Monday Nov. 7th  6-6:30AM
Wednesday Nov 9th  6-6:30AM
Friday Nov. 11th  6-6:30AM

I have been doing a bootcamp on Mon, Wed, and Fri mornings from 5-5:45. So as soon as I get home I have 30 minutes before I need to get into the shower. I have found that this is a good quite time for me to get my reading done.

Parenting With Love And Logic By Foster Cline, M.D. & Jim Fay

     This week I read from Pearl 10 to Pearl 18. Some of the things talked about don't really pertain to me and my daughters such as: Divorce And Visitation, Grades And Report Cards, or Friends. My girls are still too young for us to be having issues with some of these problems. I am sure that eventually it will happen with the grade cards and the friends and so I hope that I can remember what the book suggest to do!
      One that I read that does fit in with our life right now is Pearl 13 Eating And Table Manners. They gave an example of kids not liking what was for dinner so mom picked up their plates and dumped their food in the trash and told them to go play and that they will see them at breakfast. Later the kids got some food out of the refrigerator because they were hungry. Mom waited until they were done and then she told them that they just ate $1.95 worth of food and how would they like to pay for that with cash or from their allowance. Because you see mom had already made them dinner and because they chose not to eat what she cooked the kids just wasted that dinner just to eat more of moms snack food that cost mom more money.
       I did try something like this myself this evening with my 3yr old. She didn't want to eat what we were eating so I just pushed her food back and told her that she can eat this now or she can wait and eat breakfast in the morning but this is what we are having for dinner and I am not fixing anything else. At first she said that she will wait till breakfast but as she sat there she then decided that she would eat now with the rest of us. I just don't know if I could throw the kids food away at first. Because I know, just like my 3yr old did, they will change their minds and want it.
      Another Pearl that I can kind of relate to right now is Pearl 16 Getting Ready For School. I  have a kindergartners and we aren't really having a hard time getting her ready for school in the morning but it is that she isn't wanting to go to school. She actually gets dressed and things just fine but the closer it gets to leaving the house the slower she goes and the tears begin to fall. In this section the mom was always late for work because of her son. Finally one evening mom told her son that she will not be late for work tomorrow morning and that he better be ready for school when its time to go. That next morning her some wasn't ready so she had a bag with his clothes in it and she took him to school in his PJ's. Now the teacher wouldn't let him in the class until he changes. So he could either sit in the hall all day in PJ's or change and join the class. Mom was never late to work again after that.
       Some of these "rules" seem so drastic that I am not for sure if I can follow them but I believe that they can work so if I ever have to take some of these drastic measures I sure hope I will follow through with it.