“Positive Parenting Tips” newsletter November

Inspiring Parenting Quotes:

"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up."
- Russell Bishop

"Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other."
- Ed Howe

Kids Activities:

Craft-

By using recycled materials you just need some glue, a little inspiration, and your child's creativity will do the rest.

Materials can be used to create collages, space rockets, animals and a whole lot more. Keep a ready supply of recyclables by keeping cereal boxes, toilet rolls, candy wrappers, magazines and yoghurt containers.

Other crafty ideas can involve play dough, paint, crayons, chalk and modelling clay! The ideas are endless.

Leap Frog

Let the children pretend to be frogs. Show them how to do a frog leap. Let them practice, short leaps, long leaps, slow leap, fast leaps.

Play music and lay out a pond or swamp with mats as lily pads, so the frogs can land on them to rest. You can always play the freeze/unfreeze froggie leap game!!

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Easy Kids Recipe:

Chuck Wagon Beans

1 lb. beans, any variety, dry
1 ham hock or shank
1 lg. onion, chopped
6 c. of water
1 tsp. salt
7 oz green chili salsa (up to 10 oz.)
or canned tomato sauce, or stewed tomatoes

Rinse the beans and remove any foreign matter.

Mix all ingredients in the crock pot.

Cover, set temperature at low, and forget for at least 10 hours.

If you have only half a day, cook the mixture 5 or more hours on high.

Child Arts & Crafts Activities:

“Cats Christmas Ornament”

This can also be made out of construction paper or gray cardboard.

This project is rated VERY EASY to do.

What You Need

• Gray craft foam

• Pen

• Heart stencil, die cut, or cookie cutter

• Scrap of yarn in any color

• 2 Tiny wiggle eyes

• Scissors

• Hole punch

• Green or red 1/4" wide Ribbon

• Green or red "Painters" paint markers

How To Make It

1. Lay the middle of the heart stencil on the edge of the craft foam. This creates a mouse shape. Trace around the stencil.

2. Cut out "mouse".

3. Hole punch two holes on the top of the mouse and one on the rounded end of the mouse. (see photo)

4. Cut a piece of ribbon to hang the mouse.

5. Tie the ribbon at each end. 6. Write your cat's name on the

mouse. You may want to write the YEAR on the back.

7. Tie the yarn for the tail.

8. Glue a wiggle eye on each side of the head. 9. Hang on your Christmas tree and enjoy!

Positive Parenting Resources:

“Consistent Discipline Rules”

The ideas suggested here are common sense, and should make life a little easier, although they may sound easy enough in theory but putting them into practice may require your full attention.

Give them a go, you will be surprised with the out come.

Routine And Regularity…

Young children thrive on routine and an organized regular environment, things like specified times.

For the pre school age, for example, wake your child at the same time every morning, help if necessary to dress your child, ready for breakfast, brush teeth and have a wash, then off to school or kinder.

These routines should be a regular start to your child’s day. This gives your child a routine and knows what is expected of him, when he has becomes comfortable with this give him a little extra chore to be involved in, such as make his bed or help with the breakfast dishes.

Winding down after his day is also important, have a snack ready, let him relax, do readers or other home work, give him a small job to do for you may be set out the table for the evening meal, sit and enjoy his day while at the dinner table. Allow him to watch some television, then its bath time, teeth and bed.

One Set Of Rules…

Children no matter what age need one set of rules in the home from both parents. For a quick example say, young Johnny asks mum if he can go and ride his bike and mum is happy enough for him to do so. But once out side dad doesn’t think it is a good time to ride his bike, Johnny gets confused and doesn’t know how to listen to.

If we start chopping and changing the rules our children don’t know where they stand. In so many families to day, there is little communication between parents because of the busy lifestyle or other responsible duties.

This then enforces less parental communication and giving children the upper hand in getting what they want, by playing one parent against the other because of the weakness in the understood rules not being enforced by both parents.

Parents need to stand together with team work present, agree on particular rules for the sake of offering consistency and stability, for the child’s most important years.

Don’t Blame Others…

Many parents with out of control children are often likely to shift the blame to someone else, rather than facing the problem with the uncontrollable child / children as being their own.

Grandma is usually the one first in line, parents use grandma because granny spoils the children, but the fact of this matter is, it just isn’t true. Child minders, care givers, teachers, friends and others are not raising the child, passing the buck so to speak is only satisfying your own conscience.

Toddlers have amazing abilities in working out different discipline in different situations. Of course they are well aware that different places require different behavior, and will be disciplined to suit the situation.

For instance, when your child is at school, grandma’s or even at the favorite auntie’s, but in the family home they know the rules are totally different, with no choice but to except them.

Work Towards Peace With Understanding…

Being a parent, you are aware of certain situations that may rev up your little ones, as they seem to daily continue to stumble right into them with regular routine.

We know, for instance, that tension, long outings, restrictions, as well as too much activity, all play a part in stirring up their moods.

All you can do if you are looking for a more peaceful day is understand the triggers and avoid setting them off.

Tension And Over Reacting…

Although we know how tension affects our children with feeling up set. Most of our daily up sets in life, are some we have little control of.

Many families live with endless amounts of tension, trying to cope with the daily responsibilities of providing, working, money, housing and not to mention the demands of the family commitments, trying to ensure smooth sailing for all, just a few of many tensions involved in the average house hold living.

Many instances involve unnecessary tension with an over reaction towards punishment.

Say for example, if, your child was responsible for some major act earlier in the day, punishment should take place instantly, then offer forgiveness and peace.

Because some of us are very slow in forgiving the children at fault, constantly reminding the child with the negative attitude will only bring extra tension, with the out come of bad behavior to continue.

This then puts parents in a mood of enlarged tension and becomes an extremely long day for all concerned.

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Editor’s notes & humour:

Signs For The Stupid. By Bill Engvall

Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid". That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind. I didn't see your sign."

It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says "Hey, you moving?" "Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign."

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, y'all catch all them fish?" "Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign."

I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. "Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you." "Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it."

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the- road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" I couldn't resist. said, "Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign."

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, "Darn that's hot!" See? If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

I learned to drive an 18 wheeler in my days of adventure. Wouldn't ya know I misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and I couldn't get it out no matter how I tried. I radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. He went through his basic questioning, ok... no problem. I thought sure he was clear of needing a sign... until he asked, "So... is your truck stuck?" I couldn't help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said "no I'm delivering' a bridge... here's your sign."

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