Communication is, in many ways, a full-time activity. But as a parent you may not stand back and think about how you speak or listen - the two vital components of communication - to your children. One of the biggest issues I come across as a parent coach is helping parents overcome the barriers and misunderstandings brought about by poor or ineffective communication.
Before you begin radically overhauling your communication style and skills,you need to evaluate how you listen and speak ...
Of all the rooms in your house, the kitchen has some of the greatest potential for disaster. There are lots of attractive shiny things with sharp edges or knobs on appliances that make noise. The attraction for children can be very great. The diligence of parents to keep their baby or child safe also needs to be great.
Your low cupboards and drawers need to be made child-proof. This is to keep your children away from pointy, sharp things in the gadgets drawer, and to keep children from ...
No parent wants their child to be hurt. Burns are particularly painful to heal and can cause permanent scarring and even death. Many types of accidents by burns are caused by parents just not realizing that there is a danger to their child in a given circumstance. Every parent will try to keep themselves informed of these kinds of situations to avoid.
As a parent you cannot always avoid your child coming in contact with hot water because there is hot water at every sink and bathtub in y ...
Many years ago my husband would set out for the open seas, which left my two sons and I alone to fend for ourselves. I understood of course that he was serving his country and this was his duty, but what an emotional predicament that decision would often leave our family in.
Allow me to help you understand how it can be a time of positive growth and change rather than emotional predicaments.
I experienced 16 years of military parenting, I coach parents for a living and am the Unit ...
Studies show that children in the United States consume too many fats and refined carbohydrates. There is definitely a correlation between the American child's diet and the epidemic of childhood obesity. Start your children early by presenting them with healthy food choices. Here are a few tips on things you can do differently. Your mother and your neighbors may think you are strange, but strange is good if you will have healthier children. Also, what is good for the children is also goo ...
Parenting, in many regards, is difficult. It requires work, persistence, and patience. The very word parenthood is synonymous with challenges, frustrations, and responsibility. However, parents everywhere will also collectively agree that parenthood is also the source of the greatest joy, satisfaction, happiness that life has to offer. All the work, responsibility, and even challenges are worth every effort and sacrifice. In fact, perhaps the reason why we experience so much happiness through ...
Success without fulfilment equals failure and a lot of our pain comes from one or more of the six not being met. Now the good thing about that is; you're about to learn what those 6 needs are as well as some options for ensuring that you are meeting your own needs and then helping to meet your children's needs (remember the aircraft scenario, where you put your own mask on before you put the mask on of others.)
We can sometimes look at the challenges we have with ourselves, ou ...
If you talk to the majority of parents and experts in the world they will tell you that the number of lazy teenagers have increased with the onslaught of modern technology. It would appear that teenagers today are doomed to obesity because they are spending too much time in front of the television and computer and can't seem to pry their cell phones from their ears. Parents remember a time long before computers and cell phones. Their fondest memories seem to be of excursions with friends ...
Let's face it. Germs and kids are best buddies. Children are always putting their hands everywhere and anything they can put their hands on ends up in their mouths. It is an unfortunate truth that most germs are not spread through the air, but by the hand to the mouth or the eye. Here are a few ideas on keeping the germs away from kids, while trying to teach them good habits to last a lifetime.
A bath given daily is a good way to get a child a clean start at least once a day. An ev ...
When your kids are very little, say preschool age, carpooling is tough. Just fitting that extra car seat into the car is a challenge. Yet, it's well worth the effort. Carpooling has value when your kids are little, and that value only increases as they get older.
When they're young, there are a couple of benefits to carpooling. First, you get to have an extra amount of time to work, shop, hit the gym, tool around on-line, or do whatever it is you like to do given the time. A h ...
