“Positive Parenting Tips” April 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:

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." - Harriet Rubin "One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." - Helen Keller "I know God will not give me anything I can't Handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

Kids Activities:

Painting The House

Your younger children want to feel involved in what you are doing, however letting them paint with ‘real paint’ is not usually an option. This toddlers activity will let them pretend they are really painting the house.

What You Need:

• A real paintbrush

• String, thin rope or cord

• A small well washed paint tin with a handle or a small bucket

• Food coloring

What To Do:

Attach the toddler’s activity paint brush to the tin or the bucket with the cord so it doesn’t get lost in the garden.

Half fill the tin or the bucket with cold water and add some drops of toddler’s activity food colouring.

If your children want a non-primary toddler’s activity colour such as purple this is a great time to see how colours mix together and change.

Now they can paint the house, the playhouse, the driveway, paths, garden edging, the pavers or whatever they like outside that can be easily hosed off later.

Best of all,this toddlers activity allows you to do your painting knowing they are happy playing, and are safe with the toddlers activity mixture they are using to paint with.

Hours of fun will be had with this toddlers activity.

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Easy Kids Recipe:

Fairy Cakes

Children love birthday parties with Great party cakes and treats, here are some party favorites. With these easy party recipes your children will love to help decorate their party treats. Fairy Cakes are cupcakes that are decorated to look like fairies.

Ingredients

• 125 grams butter
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla or lemon extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup jam
• 1/2 cup cream, whipped
• powdered sugar to dust with
Method

1. Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla or lemon extract until creamy.
2. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. Fold in the sifted flour alternately with the milk.
4. Three-quarters fill 18 well-greased paper patty cases or well-greased muffin tins.
5. Bake at 180°C for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden. Cool on a cake rack.
6. Cut out a small circle in the top of each cake and cut each circle in half. Spoon a little jam in the centre hollow and top with whipped cream. Arrange the "wings" into the cream and dust with icing sugar before serving.

Rum balls

Ingredients

• 1 C ground Vanilla Wafer cookies
• 1 C pecan crumbs
• 1 C powdered sugar
• 2 T Dutch cocoa powder
• 1.5 T white Karo syrup
• 1/4 C rum or burbon

Directions

This recipe involves no cooking.

Combine ingredients. Roll into balls, approximately 1″ in diameter (approximately 1 T of dough). Coat in powdered sugar or nut crumbs. For best results, let age for a week or so in a tin.

Makes 30 balls.

Child Arts & Crafts Activities:

Circles Bear

Materials required

• Plate

• Bowl

• Cup

• Juice glass

• Construction paper or poster board



Trace around a plate on construction paper or poster board to make one big circle for the body of the bear.

Trace around a bowl to make the head.

Trace around a cup for the legs and ears of the bear.

Trace around a juice glass for the eyes and a nose.

Cut our all the circles and glue them together to make the bear.

Draw on a mouth.

Positive Parenting Resources:

Developing Good Manners In Kids

It is never too early to teach children good manners. Studies show that even at a very young age, kids are already capable of learning and experiencing empathy and concern for others. Teaching manners becomes easier when it is a common practice in the household.

As social beings, children learn by doing, says child development theorist John Dewey. From birth onward, children are constantly picking up emotional and behavioral cues from the people around them - parents, siblings, caregivers, etc. However, it is not enough to simply tell children what to do and say; showing them by example counts most.

Here are three sample scenarios to check the right way to react to everyday situations in order to train your kids toward good etiquette.

1. Dinnertime

You, your husband, and your two-year-old son are having dinner. You son orders, "Mom, pass the salt." You:

a. Give an elaborate speech on politeness

b. Hand over the bowl of rice and curtly say, "Here." That should signal that he did something wrong.

c. Respond with, "Sure. But only if you say 'Please, pass the salt.'"

Answer: C

By the age of two, kids begin to form simple phrases, looking for ways to apply them. By teaching toddlers to say, "Please," "Thank you," and "You're welcome," you ultimately teach them how to show respect and gratitude. These are short but well-meaning words apt for your tot's early vocabulary.

At this stage, kids focus more on imitating the behavior of adults and older children. When kids see you respond to others with warmth and kindness, they will learn to idealize this and act in a like fashion.

2. Wiping Kisses

Your mother in law visits and meets your son for the first time. She hugs and kisses him excitedly, but he pushes her away and wipes his cheeks with his shirt. You:

a. Send him to a corner, which should compel him to think about his ill and disrespectful behavior.

b. Laugh at what happened. Kids will be kids. What can you do?

c. Apologize to your mother in law, then explain to your son how he should behave.

Answer: C

Meeting people for the first time may not come as easily to very young kids as it does to grown-ups. Don't expect kids to be congenial with every new person you introduce to them.

However, though children at this age may not always be able to control their emotions and reactions, they should still learn how to behave, especially toward elders or relatives. This helps prep them for future first-time encounters.

As in the case of the kiss-wiping little boy, apologizing right away to the mother-in-law tells the child that his actions were hurtful. Kids at the age of three begin to develop a rudimentary awareness that others have wants and feelings, too. Let them know that saying "I'm sorry" or "I apologize," even if it doesn't always undo the harm caused, makes a big difference to whoever was offended.

3. Taking Turns

Your two kids are playing with each other, when they accidentally break your favorite flower vase. Both run to you, yelling loud and fast, and placing blame on the other. You:

a. Become irritated with the bickering and leave.

b. Calmly tell them to stop talking at the same time. You ask one of them to speak first and ask the other to wait for his turn.

c. Punish them both immediately. They can explain later.

Answer: B

Waiting for one's turn is the general rule for a well-mannered person. Teach your children that speaking at the same time doesn't allow any of them to be heard. If they want to be heard, they have to learn how to listen and wait patiently for their turn to speak.

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