Posted in Parenting, Family Life on March 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Do they or don't they? No one seems to know for sure. Namely, do violent movies affect us or don't they? What's your take?
This week in the news there was yet another story about a violent, horrible murder. We really don't want to know the details, but just try to check CNN online without […]
Posted in Parenting, Family Life on February 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Okay, we know we're to use eye contact, provide physical affection and listen to our children attentively. But after nurture, then what? Pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton says that "discipline is the second most important thing you can give a child. Love comes first, but very close on its heels comes discipline."
Yes, it's time to […]
Posted in Parenting on January 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Public tantrums. They are indeed every parent's nightmare. Six or seven months pregnant with our second child, I once left a full grocery cart right by the check-out lines and walked out of the store with an out-of-control 2-year old. She had had a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad day. This was extremely unusual for […]
Posted in Parenting on January 18th, 2007 No Comments »
The third of the three powerful parenting tools identified by Dr. Ross Campbell is focused attention. Note the adjective. Not just any old kind of attention, but focused attention. Should we need to be told this? "Give your children attention." Don't we … do that?
Sorry, we aren't allowed off that easily! The definition […]
Posted in Parenting on December 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Eye contact is the first tool given to parents to use in assuring children of their unconditional love. The second is touch. It seems obvious — kids are cute, don’t we love to hug them? Actually, we don’t use this tool as often as we might think.
A study measuring the amount of time parents spend […]
