“Positive Parenting Tips” May newsletter

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INDEX:
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:

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross "All the darkness in the world can not put out the light of a single candle." - Unknown "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kids Activities:

LEAPFROG

Rules

This game is also known as Frog jump.

The simplest way for two people to play Leapfrog is for one person to turn sideways to the other person, bend over, put their hands on their knees or legs and tuck their head in towards their chest. They are then a frog.

The other person then has to run and leap over the frog, placing their hands on the frog’s back to help them over. This game can also be played in a larger group with a line of frogs to keep it going for longer –

The game ends when you get tired, run out of space or time or fall over!

Hide and seek

Rules

This game is also known as Hide-and-tig, Hide and Hide-and-go-seek.

One person is IT and they are the seeker, or person who will look for the other players.

The person who is IT stands at the base (home). They cover their eyes or turn around.

They count to an agreed number, or recite a tune or particular words, while the rest of the players hide.

When the counting or rhyme is finished, IT says “Ready or not, here I come” or “Coming, ready or not” and runs to find everyone.

The people who are hidden remain hiding until they are found and the last one to be found is the winner.

What you need

An open space with places to hide or players to be unseen

An agreed spot for the base or home

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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:

“Dough Handprints”

Every year, you can make dough handprints of your children.

It is real simple.

They make wonderful gifts for grandparents, too!

NOTE: This recipe takes some experimenting.

Please try the recipe BEFORE using it in a group setting.

This project is rated VERY EASY to do.

What You Need

• 2 cups of flour

• 1 cup salt

• 1 cup water

• Food coloring

• Ribbon

• Gold marker

• Wax paper

How To Make It

1. Add food coloring to the water. Use pink for girls, blue for boys.

2. Mix all ingredients well, kneading until smooth. Dough should be pretty stiff, not soft or runny or it will fill with air bubbles when baking.

3. Form dough into a ball, of about what you can enclose in your two hands, and form into a round smooth ball.

4. Using a rolling pin with the dough on wax paper, roll out into as round of a circle as you can. Dough will be about 1/2 inch thick.

5. Press your child's hand with fingers splayed into the dough. Depending on child's age, you will have to help and individually press their fingers. Make sure to press deep enough without going completely to the bottom. (When it bakes it tends to raise the handprint up.)

6. Put on a cookie sheet.

7. Use a chop stick or pencil, etc. to make two holes in the top about 1/2 inch apart. This will be used to string the ribbon through.

8. Bake at 200 degrees for about 2-3 hours. Dough should be fairly hard but watch to see that it doesn't burn.

9. When they are done and cooled, use a gold marker pen and write the child's name and date (year). Put the child's name on top and the year on bottom, if there is room. If not, put name on one side and year on one side. Tie a ribbon at the top (blue or pink - or gold) to use as a loop to hang.

Positive Parenting Resources:

How to Stop a Biting Habit

A growing child is truly a work in progress. Children at their very early years normally develop several habits that are inappropriate. These habits maybe annoying as in thumb sucking, destructive as in temper tantrums and dangerous, as is the case of biting.

If you have a pet dog, you may probably have observed that there are times when the dog inevitably bites anything that comes it way. From simple objects, to slippers, to small furniture, the dog will surely have its way to make those objects its outlet of outrage.

In children, especially the toddlers to preschoolers, the same also may happen. Be aware that children are learning a lot and at a rapid pace about the environment. Thus, as they learn, they recognize their own limitation.

The limitation to effectively communicate what he usually feels or desires is the major cause of disappointment, frustration and anger among young children.

Alas, these kids could not appropriately say the words, so they manifest their feelings through action instead. Thus, some children develop the habit of biting.

The habit of biting

Children tend to bite anything that comes their way from simple objects to other people. Yes, some kids tend to bite other kids, which make the habit very dangerous.

Experts claim that biting may occur at toddlers to preschoolers. It is at the age range of about 18 months to 3 years that most children who develop the habit manifest it.

In some cases, even infants, especially those aged at least six months tend to bite, and this habit is indicated when the infant, who must be teething by that age, starts biting the nipple of the breastfeeding mom.

Reported cases also show that most children with the biting habit show off their biting abnormality at kids' social functions, like a play session, a party or at daycare classes.

Take note that during these times, the child is with other children. The biting must then be a product of frustration and annoyance with other kids. Usually, some kids bite other kids who bully them around. By that, the biting habit becomes somehow a defense mechanism.

Helping the child outgrow the biting habit

Experts assert that the biting habit usually, and should, recede by the time the child reaches the age of four. Biting is just one of those unusual habits developed by the child, who is struggling very hard to cope with the environment.

Psychologists say that unusual habits of children, like biting, occur when the child aims to get attention or aims to get something they want. Thus, when the child learns to express himself freely through words, he ceases the need to use annoying acts to express his feelings.

But if you want to help your child overcome the habit because you are becoming too embarrassed whenever he bites other people or kids, then you must take into consideration the following simple tips.

• Be sure to point out to your kid that the behavior he is exhibiting is not normal, not appropriate and not acceptable. Be firm whenever you tell that to your child.

• Never resort to spanking or physically punishing the child whenever he bites. Doing so will only aggravate the situation and would likely result in adverse effects, like your child will start feeling rebellious.

• Usually, children bite when they become agitated or too tired so try to avoid leading him to tedious and annoying activities.

• Set a good example. You are teaching good deeds to your child so be the first example yourself. Do not show the child that it is all right to be violent. He knows that biting is a form of violence because he can see that it hurts other people.

• When a child tends to bite his brother or sister, normally, that child is seeking for your attention. Whenever he does that, get him loose, then approach and hug the child he bit. That way, your child will realize that the habit is only pushing you away from him and into other children, a thought that he will surely shrug off immediately.

• If the infant bites during breastfeeding session, stop for a few minutes. That will help instill in the infant that what he did is not right.

If these measures fail to gain results, perhaps it is time to seek professional help because the problem may aggravate and linger in the child until he grows up.

It is normal for children to develop the biting habit. It is only a matter of time and proper handling before he realizes that the act is not appropriate.

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