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April 08, 2008

“Positive Parenting Tips” April newsletter

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Inspiring Quotes
Toddlers Activities & Games
Easy Kids Recipe
Child Arts & Crafts Activities:
Positive Parenting Resources
Sponsored Resources
Editor’s Note / Humour / new free books

Inspiring Quotes:

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. " - Antoine de St. Exupery

"Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one's listening, live like it's heaven on earth." - William Pukey

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

Kids Activities:

Not only do kids of all ages love to play games, games are a creative and inexpensive way to entertain children. With a little imagination you will soon have them making up their own games!

Whether you're looking for birthday party games or just something to keep the little ones busy for a little while, I think you'll find these games easy to learn and fun for all ages.

Playing Shops

It’s another wet day and your child is bored. Playing shops will keep that nagging boredom away. So, let’s play! Kids love playing shops, it’s also a great activity to keep the little ones entertained. Its fun to join in this activity making your children’s shopping experience rather interesting.

What You Need:

• large cardboard cartons or table

• Coins, Crayons, Paper, Scissors

• Items for the shop (eg : Books, Toys, Fruit, etc )

• Props such as : Toy cash register, Old shoe box, Plastic bags or a carry basket

What to Do:

Organise with your child to make a shop with cardboard cartons or table. Look through the cupboards for things your child can use to sell from the shop. Ask your child to choose some things to sell in the shop too.

Making play money: Blue – tack some coins to the table, put a piece of paper on top of the coins then show your child how to rub over the money with a crayon to get the markings of the play money. Help to cut your play money out ready to start shopping.

Cash register: If your child doesn’t have a toy cash register then an old shoe box is the next best thing, you can make dividers to separate your play money by cutting out pieces of cardboard the same width of your shoe box.

Mom and Dad can play too, make your self a shopping list and visit your Childs shop. Your child will get so much enjoyment out of serving mom or dad.

So, come on mom lets go shopping.

Kitchen Play

This is great for the outdoor activity on warm days; kitchen play offers your child many activities amusing your child for hours. Watch the time go by while your children happily play.

Kitchen Play is loved by all children, its Fun!

What You Need :

• Unbreakable bowls, Spoons, Ladles, Baking Trays, Muffin Tins, Measuring Spoons, Plastic Jugs and Cups

• Water

• Cardboard Carton

What to Do :

All children love to cook, so now your child can do some cooking outdoors using cold water.

- Stirring, Measuring, Mixing and pouring.

- Add some colour to the water with a few drops of food dye, use different colours to make the kitchen play cooking more interesting. Children think it’s great. Looks great too.

- Use the cardboard carton for their pretend stove. Let the cooking begin

When it comes to cooking a meal for the family, involve your child by giving simple tasks to do.

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Easy Kids Recipe:

Millet Porridge

7 months

Start your baby’s day off with this great baby recipe; it’s a quick and easy breakfast for bubs. Your baby is sure to enjoy this tasty start. Try it and watch your baby enjoy every spoonful.

You Will Need

• Half Cup Of Millet

• 2 Cups Of Water

Mix the millet into boiling water, boil millet for ten minutes. Turn the heat down and simmer for approximately 30 minutes or until mushy.

For an extra treat, serve your baby millet porridge with a sprinkle of Wheatgerm and fresh apple purée.

Millet Porridge is very easy to make and light on the purse. You can double your recipe, try it your self or refrigerate for baby.

Hot Corn Cereal

8 months

This baby recipe will also be enjoyed by the whole family. Hot corn cereal is a healthy and nutritious baby recipe breakfast for everyone to have a good healthy start to the day.

Older children really enjoy this tasty cereal; you can add raisons, dates or any fruit your children like.

What You Will Need

• quarter Cup Yellow Cornmeal

• Quarter Cup Cold Water

• 2 Teaspoons Wheatgerm

• Three Quarters Cup Boiling Water

• Quarter Cup powered Milk ( optional )

Stir together cold water, Wheatgerm and Cornmeal. Bring water to the boil; add the cornmeal mixture and also the powered milk if you added it to your hot corn cereal recipe.

While stirring frequently bring to the boil, then let simmer for 2 minutes.

Serve your hot corn cereal with honey, puréed fruit, or for older members of the family you might like to add rasions or chopped dates.

This hot corn cereal recipe will be a pure delight at your table.

Child Arts & Crafts Activities:

Making Streamers

Children enjoy making these toddlers activity colourful streamers, for sports days cheering their favourite team, using while dancing, or just having fun with a friend.

YOU WILL NEED:

• Pieces of dowel, Rulers, Chopsticks or even sticks from the back yard

• Crepe Paper using a verity of colours

• Glue

• Scissors

• Paint if available

WHAT TO DO:

Assist your children while cutting the toddlers activity long length of crepe paper. Have your Children choose their toddlers activity colours, glue them from the end of the dowel, ruler, chopsticks or the back yard sticks.

If using the back yard sticks. Painting the sticks will dress your toddlers activity streamers up to look like the real thing.

Roll up the toddlers activity streamers tightly, then release them letting the toddlers activity streamers unwind.

Show the children the wonderful colours displayed when the toddlers activity streamers are in motion.

Put some of the children’s favourite toddlers’ activity music on and watch them dance with their colourful streamers. Outside in the garden is most enjoyable.

Positive Parenting Resources:

Effective Discipline for Two Year Olds

The "terrible" twos are a time of great change for most children. They are learning how to be independent and often defy their parents, yet this newfound freedom sometimes frightens them. They can understand far more complex concepts than they can express verbally, leading to frustration and tantrums. They are endlessly curious about the world around them but they have not developed a sense of personal safety, so they don't understand why certain activities are off limits.

With all the conflicting advice parents receive about discipline, it's easy to forget that the word "discipline" means "to teach." Many situations requiring discipline at this age can be turned into learning experiences for both you and your child. Approaching difficult situations with that concept firmly in mind can help you discipline even the most difficult preschooler.

For example, the dreaded word "no" causes automatic tension in most parents of two-year-olds. Your instinct may be to engage in a battle of wills or simply pick up the child and make them do what is required. However, if you allow the child to say "no" to your request, you will often get a "yes" if you ask again in a few minutes. Allowing a child to say "no" once in awhile shows them that you respect their growing independence.

Another opportunity to teach proper behavior arises when your child deliberately makes a mess for you to clean up. Most parents can tell the difference between a genuine accident and willful misbehavior. For the latter, parents can use the incident as an example of cause and effect. If your child deliberately colors on the walls after you have told him not to, having him help you clean up the mess can teach a valuable lesson about responsibility and consequences.

The most important tool in your discipline toolbox is consistency. By imposing the same discipline every time your preschooler misbehaves, you're teaching them that their actions have predictable consequences. If you allow a behavior one day and punish it the next day, your child will be very confused. Children at this age are too young to understand special exceptions so you should stick carefully to your routines as much as possible each and every day.

Finally, if all else fails, preschoolers are generally very receptive to redirection. If your child does not want to go to bed, instead of arguing with her and insisting that it's time for bed, change the subject and ask what doll she wants to take to bed with her or which bedtime story she wants to hear. This teaches children that some behavior is not negotiable and shows them acceptable alternatives.

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Editor’s notes & humour:

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Alternate Meanings

The Washington Post published a contest for readers in which they were asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. The following were some of the winning entries.

• Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

• Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

• Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

• Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

• Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent

• Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.

• Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

• Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.

• Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

• Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

• Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

• Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.

• Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.

• Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.

• Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.

• Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist

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