Disciplining children can be a nightmare but there are things we can do as parents and carers to make things easier for ourselves. I taught my kids at a young age that there are certain consequences for our actions, whether good or bad.
When our kids learn to accept certain laws and abide by them it makes discipline so much easier. These are just a few simple things that my kids have learned over the past few years:
* when I spend all my pocket money on the first day I have no money for the r Read more
This morning after my children left for school, I walked into the bathroom and saw clothes all over the floor. Needless to say I was not impressed. Rebekah had forgotten (yet again) to pick up her clothes after her shower. I thought about picking them up for her, then decided that I would leave them for her to pick up later on that day.
I started thinking about how I was going to fix this problem. After all, Becky always left her clothes in the middle of the bathroom floor. It seems like no matt Read more
I am an expert on this subject as I have one of these precious darlings in my family at present. So, I feel for you parents. But there is light at the end of the tunnel – I can assure you. The fact is that (more…)
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My daughter’s name is Rebekah and she is nine years old. she has always been good at losing things. I really don’t know what she does with stuff – there must be some monster that comes into her room at night and “eats” her stuff.
Anyhow, Becky lost a DVD that belonged to the Public Library. Now this wasn’t the first one that she had lost, it was the second. And mum was getting a bit frustrated with having to pay for a new one, not to mention the embarrassm Read more
