Archive for Parenting

Medical Alert

Medications are always in question, but here are some sensible tips in general.  My children (there were 4 of the “little people” at one time) seemed to be needing band aids, a lot.  So much so that I do wish I’d invested in Johnson & Johnson stock years ago.  I never had things at hand [...]

Little People

By “little people” I mean any child under the height of your belly button.  Just think what the world must look like to them.  Everyone and everything is sooo much higher than me.  Remember that when you are trying to get your point across.  Whatever form of discipline you use needs to be enforced by [...]

Let Imagination Be Your Guide

This is about listening to your inner spirit.  When we use our imagination and ask a question, it is undoubtedly answered by that all knowing inner spirit.  Your intuition can be a magical guide, if you listen. For example:  My daughter was having difficulty learning the days of the week.  I’d never encountered this before [...]

What You Live You Teach

Remember the saying, “Do as I say, not as I do.”?  Pay attention to how you do things because that is what your children repeat; no matter what you’ve said.  It is a truism. Here’s an example:  when you are on the phone speaking to your sister and you say, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell [...]

Parenting In General

Today’s world is so different from yesterday’s and tomorrow will be so different again. How do we parent our children in today’s fast changing and fast paced world?  We better have a plan or our precious “little ones” may grow up totally alien to us.  The world has a much sooner impact on our children [...]

Bed Time

This is a notorious time for difficulty in most homes.  You are not alone.  What needs to be understood to make this easier is that routine, routine, routine is the same in family structure as “location, location, location” is in real estate! Everyone makes their own rituals around this bed time but some examples of [...]

Idle Threats – Leave at the Door!

How many times have you threatened something that you definitely can’t follow through on, but it sounded good?  Example:  “Don’t do that, or I’m not letting you go to Grandma’s tomorrow?”  Of course you can’t leave Annie home alone tomorrow when she does it anyway, can you? or how about, “If you don’t stop pinching [...]

Parent to Parent ~ Tend This Garden Wisely

When we fall in love we spend a lot of time getting to know one another. We talk into the wee hours of the morning and seem to “know” each other almost without speaking. Our match seems unbelievably symbiotic. Our house is nestled in a garden with a white picket fence with two kids in [...]