“Positive Parenting Tips” newsletter May

Inspiring Parenting Quotes:

"A baby is God's way of saying the world should go on."
- Doris Smith

"My Dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby he said, 'Is this a joke?"
- Ken Dodd

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.

Bean in Your Shoe
One player goes out of the room. A dried bean is given to one of the players to put in his or her shoe.

Play some music and have all the players dance, each child pretending to have a bean in their shoe.

The player that left the room comes back and tries to guess who has the bean in their shoe. If they guess right, the person with the bean in their shoe gets to guess next.

If they guess wrong, they get to leave the room again and try again.

If they guess wrong a second time, they get to choose who gets to leave the room next.

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Easy Kids Recipe:

Bunny Salad – easy kids recipe

1 Chilled pear half

2 Raisins

1 Red cinnamon candy

2 Blanched almonds

-cottage cheese ball

Place crisp lettuce leaf on plate.

On top of it, place pear upside down.

Make bunny, using narrow end for face.

Two raisins for the eyes, 1 red cinnamon candy for the nose and 2 blanched almonds for the ears.

The cottage cheese ball makes the tail.

Child Arts & Crafts Activities:

Bird Feeder

An easy craft to make, and fun to watch the birds eat!

This project is rated VERY EASY to do.

What You Need

• Slice of white bread
• Cookie cutter
• Peanut Butter
• Knife to spread peanut butter (plastic is fine!)
• Yarn
• Bird seed on a plate

How To Make It

1. Take the cookie cutter and punch a nice shape out of the white bread.

2. You can save the scraps for breadcrumbs or make ones with the center cut out.

3. Punch a hole into it for yarn to hang, thread the yarn through.

4. Let the white bread shapes sit out for a day or two so that they become firm. This will make it easier to spread the peanut butter.

5. Spread peanut butter on the bread, then turn over and push into bird seed. You can turn it over and put peanut butter and seed on the other side, too, if you wish.

6. Hang outside on a tree for the birds to eat.

Positive Parenting Resources:

“Encouraging Your Child to Write”

How in the world do you get your child to write?

This is the battle cry of many parents.

A lot of imagination, with a little bribery (or praise) is all you need to get your child writing.

We'll supply the imagination.

The praise and bribery is all up to you.

Grocery List: Enlist your child's help in making the grocery list. Walk around the kitchen, naming things you need from the store. Ask your child to write everything down. Your child can also suggest foods you might need from the store and he can add those, too.

Old Checks: If you've recently switched banks and have checks that need to be destroyed, first let your child play with them. Give him some envelopes and he can pretend to pay bills -- while getting him to do some writing. Of course, destroy the checks afterwards. If you do not have checks available, you can just give your child some blank pieces of paper and he can make his own checks.

Cards: If your child is interested in Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh cards, then give him some index cards cut in half and have him design his own cards. Encourage your child to give the characters names and special abilities on their cards.

Fictional Journal: Sometimes it is hard for children to write in a journal. What is there to write about? Instead of a standard journal, give your child a fictional journal. He or she can pretend to be anything they'd like to be and write a journal as that person.

Your child could write from the perspective of an Astronaut discovering a new planet, Prince or Princess on an Adventure, Archaeologist finding a new species of Dinosaur, Famous Athlete, President of a Country, Passenger on the Titanic.

Your child could write from the perspective something instead of someone, a mailbox, an animal, a pen. The possibilities are endless.

Letter-writing: Have your child write a letter to Santa, the Easter bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. Or, your child could write to their favorite athlete, fictional character, or movie star.

Alphabet Game: Take a piece of paper and write the letters A-Z in the left column. Then, choose a category from the following or make up one of your own. Vegetables, Fruits, Animals, Musical Instruments. For older children, the categories can be narrower and more difficult, like Countries, Characters in Literature, Presidents, etc.

Set a timer and you and your child both list as many of the items in the category as you can for each letter. The trick at the end is that you have to cross off anything on your list that your child has listed. (for instance, if you both have "apple" for an "a" fruit, then the parent crosses theirs off.) Whoever has the most words wins.

Character Game: Tell your child to pick a character from a book or movie that he's familiar with, and you do the same. Then, ask several questions and you each write the answers to the questions on a piece of paper.

When you've finished asking the questions, then have your child read the answers and try to guess who he was pretending to be. You do the same and see if your child can guess who you were.

Whether you are pretending to be Peter Pan or Shrek, you and your child will have fun and your child won't even realize he's practicing his writing!

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Editor’s notes & humour:

Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without writing a word.

Maybe this will explain.

When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do?

... You forward jokes.

When you have nothing to say, but still want to keep contact, you forward jokes.

When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know how,

.... You forward jokes.

Also to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get?

... A forwarded joke.

So, next time if you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile :)

Are you feeling Lucky???

A guy named Joe finds himself in dire circumstances. His business has gone bust and he's in serious financial trouble. He's so desperate that he decides to ask God for help. He begins to pray...

"God, please help me. I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the lotto."

Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it.

Joe again prays...

"God, please let me win the lotto! I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well".

Lotto night comes and Joe still has no luck.

Once again, he prays...

"My God, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house, and my car. My wife and children are starving. I don't often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. PLEASE just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order."

Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open and Joe is confronted by the voice of God Himself:

"Joe, meet me halfway on this. First, please buy a lottery ticket."

You know its going to be a bad day if:
You put your bra on backwards, and it fits better
Your car horn goes off accidentally, and remains stuck while you’re following a group of Hell’s Angels.
Your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles
You see a ’60 minutes’ team waiting in your office
The boss tells you not to bother taking off your coat
The bird singing outside your window is a vulture
Your blind date turns out to be your wife
Your twin forgot your birthday
Your Income Tax cheque bounces.

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