For most parents, it’s easy to feel loving towards your kids when they’re behaving well and being their happy, cheerful selves. It’s when they’re grumpy, tired, angry, sad, whiny, and not cooperating that it becomes a challenge (to say the least!). But what does this have to do with our Teaching Kids About Character Series?…
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4 Easy Ways to Help Your Child Love Learning
Have you ever had the experience where you just learn a new word and then you start to hear it being used everywhere? Or maybe it’s a new activity you heard about and then you start to see it on TV or hear about it on the radio, or you suddenly read posts about it…
30 Joyful Ways to Connect with your Child in 10 Minutes
This week’s Teaching Kids About Character: An Alphabetic Journey topic is J is for Joyful. When I got thinking about joy and where it comes from, I immediately thought about connection. On days when my son is cranky, whiny, and demanding or wild, hyper and reckless, I have come to see that these are cries from…
Teaching Kids Independence: 2 Strategies That Really Work
For many parents, the transition from dependence to independence seems to happen naturally. Around the age of 2 many kids start to want to do things by themselves. “Me do it, Mommy!” becomes a phrase that is heard often around the house. Amazon links have been provided for your convenience. Read our disclosure here. Or…
5 Reasons Preschoolers Lie & How to Teach Them About Honesty
A few months ago I started noticing that my 2.5 year old son, Onetime, was starting to lie! Daddy would come home at the end of the day and ask him a series of questions about what he had done that day. Onetime would answer “Um-hum!!!” with enthusiasm when my husband would ask if he had done…