Can we train a child to do the right thing? I’m sure many of you have heard of the bible verse that tells us to do just that. I guess the issue here is that kids learn what they live with. So if we want to have a good impact on our children we need to be careful what we say and do. It’s as simple as that.
Kids can see through hipocracy and they aren’t stupid. Parents have a huge role to play in the raising of their kids. It’s scarey really, because we have that huge respo Read more
Finding parenting classes for parents isn’t easy. I mean, we all know that kids don’t arrive with an instruction manual. It’s not really fair: a child comes along and we are dumped in the deep end. Parenting can be very challenging and that is why it is important to choose your parenting classes wisely. Here are a few tips for you:
Does the person taking the classes have a degree? Then do NOT listen to them. I’m serious here! Let me tell you why. Universities might be great when it Read more
Something happened today. And it actually made me a bit angry and a bit sad. I wanted to invite a mate of my son’s to go away for a couple of days and rang someone to ask if they would allow their son to go away with us. Nothing wrong with that.
I chatted to the parent, but the parent said to me “I don’t think my son would like to go away with your son because your son picks on my son and teases him too much”. BIG GULP!!!! So there I was on the end of the phone, trying to Read more
Well it’s school holidays here. That means at any one time I will have double the usual amount of people in my house. Last night instead of 3 kids I had six kids. The boys watched DVDs in the lounge and the girls were watching DVDs in the bedroom. When they all joined together for the inevitable five minutes of wrestling, the youngest one got hurt. But that’s what happens to a little girl when she has three big brothers.
So how do you cope with six kids in the house at once, I hear y Read more
