Your kids: Responsible or Spoiled?
0As soon as kids are capable of doing jobs, take the time to teach them to do the jobs and gracefully hold them responsible to do them.
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What You Really Need for Mother’s Day
Hint: It’s not flowers, trophies, chocolate, or a day at the spa! Mother’s Day: the one day a year when we moms are officially recognized for working our fannies off to be “all things to all people.” The other 364 days a year we wear …
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4 Simple Rules to Manage Mealtime Mayhem
After our two part series on meals, quite a few parents asked for more help with creating a calm, connective atmosphere at the table. Because Lynne is extensively trained*, and has worked successfully with hundreds of families regarding this issue, we decided to share her …
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Parenting Goals You Can Meet
Choose as your goals to be sure you stay calm, to be sure that your child knows he’s loved and respected no matter how he behaves, and to help him focus on his responsibilities.
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Pass the peas, pass the faith!
How can you pass the values and faith while you pass the veggies and fruit? These are important questions. Ask your kids questions about their thoughts and ideas!
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The most important thing your child can do!
“Research shows that the most important thing a child can do to assure long-term well being is eat meals with his or her family. The more meals together, the better!” Over a shared dinner table, kids enjoy the time together and are embracing their parents’ values. So make a commitment. Share more meals!
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Discipleship, Consequences, and Toothbrushing
The concepts in this article can be found in-depth in Jim and Lynne’s latest book, “Discipline That Connects”. We recently got the following email from a loving, caring parent. We believe others among you might have similar questions, so we thought we’d share! Hope this conversation …
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The New Problem of Entitlement
Researchers tell us that American parents are too child-centered, that making our kids happy is more important to us than teaching them responsibility, and that as a result, kids generally are growing up less prepared to take care of themselves and others than ever before. Lynne and I agree. …
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Be Angry (if you must) But Don’t Sin.
Sometimes parents get too angry. (See last week’s tip about that.) Other times they don’t get angry enough – or at least they don’t stand firm to keep kids growing in responsibility for their own lives. In the name of keeping the peace parents sometimes …
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Managing Kids’ Anger – and Ours
© jeangill | istockphoto.com We parents sometimes get it backwards. Our kid acts up and we get angry. We then tend to justify our anger saying, “I wouldn’t be angry if you didn’t act up.” This means that we’ve let our child be in charge …
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