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The Art Of Listening – Active Listening Exercises For Kids
Teaching your child the art of listening will assist him, to not only listening to you but aid him in learning to communicating with others. Good Listening skills take practice. It’s never too early to enlist your kids in active listening exercises. Be An Effective Listener Yourself Be an effective listener yourself. It is the…
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Are Schools Killing Creativity In Kids?
According to Ph. D. Sir Ken Robinson, schools are not allowing our children to be creative. In fact, according to Professor Robinson, the present school system…world wide… stifles or kills creativity. In is new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, he explores the need for more creativity in our in our school…
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Choices – When Do Kids Choices Really Count?
When do kids choices really count? Or more importantly…do we as parents, teachers and guardians recognize kids choices really count? So often, we adults set up scenarios for our kids to make choices… and when they do… their choices are discounted or invalidated. Hang in there and I’ll explain, using the following example. Each student,…
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Kids Birthday Parties
Charity Kids birthday parties have recently been brought to may attention Over the past several weeks, I have repeatedly heard about kids birthday celebrations called “Charity Birthday Parties. I first heard of this concept while listening to the “Glenn Beck” show on the radio. At first, I thought he was making a joke… but soon…
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School Policies – Are you Watching?
School policies for your children vary from state to state and from district to district. Are you watching? In the last several weeks, it has come to my attention that some districts have policies in place that may not be in the best interest of your family. When you sign your children up for the…
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5 Practical Back To School Ideas
Here’s 5 practical Back To School ideas that will be help you and your kids get back into the swing of things, now that the summer is over. Going back to school can be stressful. There’s clothes shopping to be done, school supplies to purchase, bus schedules to review, registration forms to fill out, fees…
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Pulling A Loose Tooth
Pulling a loose tooth became quite a traumatic deal when my grandson’s front tooth was hanging by a thread. “It’s my tooth,” Glade wailed, as his Uncle Wade threatened to remove it. Glade has been hanging on to his loose tooth for weeks now. He’s certainly earned the name, Snaggle Tooth, as the tooth is…
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Good Table Manners & Kids
Teaching kids good table manners can be a challenge if your wait until you’re at a friends house or a restaurant to in engage in dining etiquette lessons. Bad manners are develop at home and can show up at the most inconvenient time. However, being one who likes to lick her fingers when eating the…
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Parenting: Choose Your Battles Wisely
When I comes to kids, you have to choose your battles wisely. Such was the case this week-end, while I was tending my 4 year old grandson Randall. I was reminded about which battles are important and which are not. Snip! It only take a few seconds and the hair is gone. Randall cut his…
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When Do You Take Your Child’s Blanket Away?
Here we go again… When do you take a child’s “blanket,” “snuggie,” “blankie” away from him? I have recently read several debates on the parenting social sites regarding the matter. Some say that when a child turns three years old, “It’s time to grow up.” Others say, “A child will give it up when he’s…