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Teaching Your Kids To Be Helpful

We can make our jobs as parents a lot easier if we teach our kids to be helpful. Kids need to learn from an early age that all members of the family must play a role in keeping the household functioning properly. Most little ones are eager to help so this makes your job a lot easier. It’s when kids get older that we sometimes have to keep on them to do their chores. In their book, 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow, authors Shelia Ellison and Barbara Barnett, offer some tips on how parents can teach their kids … Continue reading →

More Ways To Help Foster A Sense Of Community In Your Kids

In an earlier blog, I talked about ways to volunteer in order to teach your kids to have a sense of community. In this blog, getting to know your neighbors is the goal. Here’s what the authors of, 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow, suggest: (1) Have a neighborhood block party— Make up a flyer and put one in each of your neighbor’s mailbox. Have everyone bring a dish and party at your house, in the street or at a local park. (2) Start an after school child care service— The authors suggest that you find out which mothers … Continue reading →

Helping Foster A Sense of Communty In Your Kids

In a previous blog, I talked about the benefits of teens volunteering. Volunteering is a great way to foster a sense of community in your kids and in their book, 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow, the authors give several ideas on ways your family can volunteer together. Here are some of them: (1) Adopt A Grandparent — Find an elderly neighbor or a resident in a nursing home who may not have any family nearby and become their surrogate family. (2) Adopt A Family — If you know of a less fortunate family in your neighborhood, your family … Continue reading →

How To: Teach Your Kids Good Manners

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”– Emily Post In 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow, the authors offer many wonderful activities aimed at teaching kids manners. Here are some of my favorites. (1) Top Ten Manners Your kids will look to you for guidance on how they should behave. When teaching manners, make sure you brush up on your own. Make a list of ten manners you want each of your kids to have and work on one manner a … Continue reading →

Teaching Your Kids How To Show R-E-S-P-E-C-T

“If respect is something we want to receive from others in our lives, it’s something we must also learn to give,” says the authors of 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow . One way to teach your kids how to respect others is by respecting privacy. To do so you will need to establish the house rules concerning privacy and each person’s right to privacy. This is sometimes hard when your kids are little. Tyler still refuses to understand why I need private time— even something as simple as alone time in the bathroom. Some rules you may want … Continue reading →

How Well Does Your Family Communicate?

How well does your family communicate with each other? The authors of 365 Ways To Help Your Children Grow, likens a family to a building. They tell us that if a family is a building, then communication is the foundation that allows the building to weather any storm. When there is good communication within a family “problems get solved, ideas get heard, feelings are expressed and intimacy grows.” One way to increase communication within your family is to get eyeball to eyeball. Instead of talking to each other from across the room or yelling for your kids, try speaking, just … Continue reading →

Teaching Your Kids Resourcefulness

Teaching your kids to be resourceful will give them the life skills they need in order to weather any storms that may bubble up in life. According to the authors of 365 Ways To Help Your Children Grow, being resourceful mean taking on challenges, taking time to think through the challenge and then using any available resources to solve the challenge. There are many ways to teach resourcefulness. One way is to teach everyday skills. Household tasks, like doing laundry or grocery shopping, are ideal ways to teach your kids how to be resourceful. Not only that, you also teach … Continue reading →

Help Children Get Good at Some Things

I wrestled with exactly how to title this blog and this was the best I could come up with. I want to write about how gaining skills and mastering some things is a huge benefit to a child’s developing self-esteem. A child doesn’t have to be fabulous at everything, but parents can help encourage interests and the development of skills. Getting good at and mastering skills and “things” is an important step in a child’s personal development. I am not talking about talent here, but more about how when we learn how to do things well—sometimes very ordinary things—we gain … Continue reading →

Can’t We All Get Along?

One essential tool you can give your kids is to teach them how to cooperate. Learning to cooperate helps them succeed in school, in their interpersonal relationships and in life in general. Being a part of a family teaches kids inportant cooperative skills such as how to work together, how to share and how to not always have to be first. In 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow , the authors suggests some fun ways to teach your children how to cooperate within the family unit. In a game called stuck together, tie two children together at the elbows … Continue reading →