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Sunday, March 29, 2015

12 - Myths about Children and Health

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Conventional wisdom:  This stuff is all true   ✔  Reality: Most of this talk was                          debunked fifty years ago  Fun ...

13 - Read to Them - Sure, But Why?

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Conventional wisdom:   You must read to your kids. ✔   Reality:    No, you must listen to them.      E xperts will say  you should ...

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From the Trenches I could see my four year old from  across the school yard, I was sitting in my car. When I looked again he was st...

14 - Learning The Hard Way!

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Conventional wisdom:  Kids learn from experience.  ✔  Reality:   Kids are maimed while their parents watch. “Watch it, he’s going to fa...

15 - Tough Love Starts with NO!

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Conventional wisdom:    Forcing a person to become responsible once defined tough love.  ✔ Reality:      People hide behind tough love  to...

16 - Lying - Fibbing

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Conventional wisdom:  Children are born pure and must learn to lie.   ✔ Reality: Children are animals and lying for survival is instinctual...

17 - Is Gratefulness Linked to Healthy Children?

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Conventional thinking:   No one  thinks about this.   ✔   Reality:   We should.     Y es, according to researchers, grateful ch...

18 - Praise is Necessary

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Conventional wisdom:  Too much praise  will go to their head.   ✔ Reality:  That often used statement is senseless. P raise m...

19 Praise Words To Use - Everyday -

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Conventional wisdom:  I compliment my children  all the time.      ✔    Reality:  Your children may disagree, ask them! Use these exampl...

20 Impulse Control and Your Child

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Conventional wisdom:    They are just impulsive kids, what’s the big deal? ✔Reality:   It is a huge life changing deal and parents igno...

21 Instant Gratification and the List of I Wants

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Conventional thinking:    Why not, I can afford it, I deserve it, what can it hurt? ✔  Reality:     Impulsive actions may not be wel...

22 Tantrums and Bratty Behavior

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Conventional wisdom:   Brats are someone else’s kids. ✔ Reality:   Brats aren’t born, they are created. (Hatched?) B ratt...

23 When Confronted with Brats and Bratty Behavior.

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Conventional wisdom:  Only other people’s children are brats. ✔  Reality:  One person’s angel is another person’s obnoxious irritant. ...

24 Fixing the Bully!

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Conventional thinking:   It’s not my child, or  it’s not my problem.   ✔  Reality:   You are probably correct. You could easily tak...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Thanksgiving Vacation

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Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas is officially kicked off with black Friday on Thursday sales, and my kid has a five day week...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Going camping with the Boy Scouts

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Tomorrow morning at 8 am we jump in the car and head for the Mt Hood wilderness to spend the day hiking and then camp overnight in a closed ...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Are you one of these parents?

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The other day shopping somewhere, we were entertained by a parent and child.  The kid, if you can call her that was about 12 years old, as t...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Stray dog adopts our neighborhood

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Reports of dog sightings have been filtering in to our house. At sun up we are awakened by howling, I spot a coyote sized dog with a distinc...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Summer Camp Tomorrow

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Sunday we drop our boy scout off to go to camp for a week.  I remember when our oldest boy went off to camp, we worried about little things...
Monday, July 4, 2011

The new monitor arrived

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Surprise, when I picked up the new monitor my son hurriedly volunteered to unpack and set it up in the office; of course this meant his moni...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Problem Solved, (no more monitor!) no more games!

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A few weeks back I was lamenting over how much time my son was spending in front of his computer, well guess what? my monitor for my home of...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

"It's the first day of summer"

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Today is the longest day of the year and many children are free from school until after Labor Day, "yipeee". I always feel for th...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire, ever heard that one? of course you have. How do you teach your kids not to lie?  It's tough when they see the...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Boy Scout Summer Camp

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Summer Camp for us has been a chance to get away ourselves. Several years now, we have coordinated a week away at the same time our boys are...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Some things kids like to do (10) you can add your favorites to the list

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This is aimed at camping but you can modify these ideas for fun at home 1. Get wet and go splashing. If you cannot find a good swimmin...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Update the weekend computer usage

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At first I thought, it was the same thing, more hours of games because when I walked by I could see what looked like a Roman Coliseum on the...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Childrens games to play in the car or at home, make play a learning experience, make learning part of playing. For more games, see pages on right side bar.

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Copy and print the map and state list above (the map will probably need to be saved as an image first) Play a match the name to the ...