Archive for the 'Parenting' Category
The Ease and Convenience of Homemade Baby Food (Really!)
Giving your baby superior nutrition doesn’t have to be a huge hassle.
Baby in a highchair, mom in front with a small spoon and a jar of baby food. It looks like something right out of a parenting magazine, and its a scene that is played out several times a day in the majority of homes with sm…
No commentsHow to Talk on the Phone When You Have a Preschooler
Here are some tips for talking on the phone when you have a toddler or preschooler in the house!
Finding a way to have a phone conversation when you have a toddler or small child can be quite a challenge. How do you do it? Here are some tips from an experienced single-mother, now grandmot…
Temper Tantrums
Temper tanturms are absolutely the best way to diminish the sense of power and control you are trying to gain by having them in the first place.
Temper tantrums. They’re a great way of putting a problem off until a later time. They feel good, they’re just plain fun to have sometimes. Giv…
Pay Attention! It’s Your Most Important Job
Anyone can become a parent; there are no tests or interviews to pass. Children can become parents, mentally disabled people ? it?s even possible to become a parent while in a coma!
When my mother, who is a truly great parent still, became a mom the first time, she was 19 and had very littl…
No commentsI Want My Baby Back
Bringing up children is never easy!
Maybe you scoff at stories of alien invaders. I used to at one time. Now I think the theory that aliens can take control over your mind and you start being someone else, isn?t balderdash. How so? Explain to me the sulk over the new jacket, the incident of…
The Imperfect Parent
Are you a perfect parent? Don’t worry, no one is. But you can learn how to be an perfect imperfect parent!
The Imperfect Parent By Ron Huxley, LMFT
How many of the parents, reading this column, are perfect parents? None? Well, how many of the imperfect parents, reading this column, ha…
No commentsTeenagers and War - waking a sleeping generation
Their Grandparents can remember the Second World War, their parents Vietnam. But they had no cause until Now.
It’s 100 years since their great-grandmothers won the right to vote, none of them are excited abut getting their first polling slip, and they consider a career in politics or the ar…
Our Children’s Needs - Part 4
They are expressions of the Divine.
Our Children’s Needs - Part 4
Robert Elias Najemy
DO NOT WORRY
Worry is a direct message to our children that we do not feel secure, that we do not feel able to face the tests and difficulties of life. It is a direct message that we beli…
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