Parenting Tip: 4 Ways That Laughing Bonds
Whoever said that , “Laughter is the best medicine.” knew what they were talking about. In “the olden days” we only knew this intuitively. Today, however, scientific research shows that laughter is really the “the best medicine” (O.K. it’s second to antibiotics. but it is surely GOOD medicine.).
It stimulates production of endorphines in the brain, relieves stress, increases oxygen in the body and even strengthens the heart muscles. It does all of this with no harmful side effects and it isn’t even difficult to swallow!
The benefits of laughing, however, don’t end with the person who laughs. Your child, spouse, and all of your family members (who said the joke) also gain tremendously when you laugh when they say something witty, sharp, or funny.
In this article I will show you 4 ways that your family members gain when you show that what they say is funny or witty.
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3 Essential Parenting Tips For Fathers On How To Parent.
Parenting tip # 1: DON’T listen to the media to learn how to parent. It’s been a long time now that father’s are getting bad rap from the media. They seem to just not like fathers and try to sell us that father’s aren’t really needed in order to raise healthy (emotionally) children. Don’t fall for it! In my experience dealing with children, mothers, and fathers, I see that they are TREMENDOUSLY needed to build good families.
4 Ways To React To Teen’s Misinformation
Has your teen ever come home and say to you, “The WHOLE class is going to be at the party on Friday night! Why can’t I go?” Or, “ALL my friends are getting tattooed! If I don’t get one they’ll think that I’m weird?” Your “gut feeling” is that it can’t be true (how can parents allow 14 year old children to go to an all night party?) but you want to trust your child and you certainly don’t want them to feel “out”. In this article I will present to you 4 ways to react to what they tell you.
Homework Time In Your House Gets Under Your Skin?
Helping your child do their homework irritates you. I can understand you, you have your job (you leave the house early and don’t come back until 4:30) and they have their job (school). Just like they don’t help you with your job, why should you have to help them with theirs! Well it’s not excactly like this, you are their parent, you want the best for them, and you want to help them, it’s just…..
In this article I hope to show you 3 ways to help your child be less dependent on you and to make homework time in your house much easier .
1. Make sure that the physical setup of the house is conducive for doing homework. For instance, make sure that there is a desk or table for them to work on. (It takes much more time to write a report sitting on a bed than to write it on a hard surface). Make sure that there is place with pens, pencils, and paper. (So they won’t spend half the night looking for these things.) When they do their work YOU shouldn’t talk on the phone or play the TV where it will distract them. Remember the easier it is for them to study the easier it is for them to study without your help.
2. Review their homework assignment, AFTER they finished it. Don’t do their assignment with them or for them. Firstly, this is precisely what irritates you. Secondly, if you do the work for them then they won’t benefit from the assignment. It is better for you to look over their assignments a few times a week, not even every night, in order to detect where their weaknesses are. If you do spot some, then discuss it with the teacher to see if it is possible to get extra help in that area. This little investment of time can save you lot’s of time in the long run. Not only will it save you time but if you catch the difficulty in bud you will save your child from and so much suffering from your child.
3. Study partners/groups. Speak to your child’s teacher if she knows of other parents who are also having problems with homework time in their house. If so, see if you can pair up with one or two of them and to rotate the house where they will study. Each child will help the other ones finish the assignment. You won’t be a hundred percent free on the nights that the group studies in your house. But even on those nights you will only have to make occasional glances that they are really working and not just gossiping and fooling around. This is certainly much better than sitting with them the whole time.
You want only the best for your child and you want that they succeed in school. Follow the guidelines above and they will be able to succeed even without you helping them the whole time.
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Does “Mommy, Can You Help Me With My Homework?” irritate you?
“Mommy, can you help me with my math homework?” Those 9 words can be soo annoying. You didn’t like doing homework when you were young (you wanted to unwind after your long day in school) and things haven’t changed now that you are older (you want to unwind after a long day at work). The only difference is that now you realize the importance of succeeding in school and that an integral part of success is doing homework. Therefore, you feel that you have to help your kid with their homework but you just can’t take the nagging and fighting that goes along with it. Don’t despair! In this article I’m going to show you 3 tips on how to keep your children’s homework under bay so you will have time to unwind and they will succeed with their schoolwork. Read more
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