“Positive Parenting Tips” newsletter March 2011

Inspiring Quotes:

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay

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.

Cardboard Tunnels

Cardboard boxes are great because they are free and also terrific for children’s creative play.

Fill up your car with boxes from your local fruit shop or electric store and let the children make a great cardboard tunnel maze indoors or in your back yard. Ask family and friends to keep any cardboard boxes, so your children can have extra fun adding to their cardboard tunnel.

What You Need:

Cardboard sheets or boxes of different shapes and sizes

Strong masking or insulating tape

What To Do:

Help the children open out different sides of boxes and join them together to make tunnels. Long boxes can have a hole cut in the side so another box can be fitted into it.

Use the masking or insulating tape to hold the boxes firmly together. Use a variety of boxes of different shapes and sizes to make the tunnel maze a real challenge.

When the tunnels are finished the children might enjoy decorating them with some acrylic paints.

They could even make a textured tunnel with different surfaces to crawl along bubble wrap, towels, carpet Hessian mats or just the grass.

If they want a spooky tunnel they could hang things from the roof of the tunnels such as wet plastic gloves, lengths of cellophane, crepe paper or partly blown up balloons.

Let them keep up their tunnels for a few days. By then their interest will probably have warn off and you can take it all to the tip.

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Easy Kids Recipe:

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:

Making a garden bed

Making your garden bed is easy, and requires no watering; bring the garden indoors, it will brighten up any spot in the home. My grandchildren enjoy coming to visit; they love to see their wonderful garden bed displayed. Then we make another one together. We love it, and it’s a great fun time creating our garden bed work of art.

What You Need:

Adult’s supervision

• Coloured Patty Pans

* 1 Egg carton

• 3 Plastic Flowers

• Coloured paper or martial

• Paint

• Glue gun

• Foam circles

• Scissors

What To Do:

Cut the top from your egg carton. Use the bottom half of the egg carton to make your garden bed. Paint your egg carton; once it is dry, add strips of colored paper gluing it across the top of your egg carton for the flower bed.

Then stick your plastic flowers to the foam circles with the glue gun. Once the glue is dry and your flowers are secure, glue them into the colored patty pans.

On the outside of your egg carton paint bright colors or decorate with some stickers.

Positive Parenting Resources:

A Parenting Tip - The Most Important Thing A Parent Can Do

The most important parenting tip won't drain your wallet, but it is costly.

It doesn't require years of parenting education, instead it's actually quite instinctive.

The most important parenting tip is simple yet profound. You can start using it today and expect almost immediate results.

After over two decades of parenting experience, I can tell you the most important parenting tip I have discovered is simply 'being there'. 'Being there' has become my most fundamental parenting concept.

- Be there...when they're just babies and need to be cuddled for the hundredth time in a day.

- Be there...then they're toddlers and need one more book read to them, calmly, so they can settle down in bed.

- Be there...when they're preschoolers and they fall down the slide on the playground.

- Be there...when they're in elementary school and their three best friends desert them all at once.

- Be there...when they're in middle school and damage something they can't fix on their own.

- Be there...when they're teenagers and need to talk at 10 pm three nights a week.

- Be there...when they're college-aged and sometimes just need to hear mom or dad's voice because nothing's going as planned.

Just be there.

Be there physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually, and relationally.

Be there because it works.

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"POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN, AND FOR THE SAME REASON"

Well, this has got to be the simplest, and most effective, formula for personal goal setting success ever.

You need no other formula or strategy, ever.

In order to achieve any and every goal, you simply need to answer these 3 questions.

"In order to achieve my goal....

1. What do I need to STOP doing?

2. What do I need to START doing?

3. What do I need to DO MORE OF?"

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Be Nice To Woman Drivers

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck causing him to have to drive on to the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and flipped the woman off.

"Man, that guy is stupid" I thought to myself.

I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and here's why:

I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, that's 96 miles each day. Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass something like a new car every 40 feet per lane.

That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars. That brings the number to something like 36, 000 cars I pass every day.

Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18, 000. In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642. According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33.

According to the National Rifle Association 5% of all females carry weapons and this number is increasing. That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed.

Flip one off?

I think not.

--written by a very smart man

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