Crying stimulates endorphins, our feel-good hormone. And also, bottled up emotions turn into tantrums.
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A few tears here and there all day long... or a VOLCANIC eruption at the dinner table. Your choice.
A lot of times it's our go-to reaction to say,
don't cry, you don't need to cry, you're fine, stop crying...
instead, try, it's okay to cry. Let it all out. You can take a break and cry when you're ready you can come back and join us.
Read MoreThe goal is so MUCH positivity and prevention that they LOVE church. They look forward to the time with their parents even if it’s a long hour. Before they can learn anything in years to come, they just need to FEEL THE LOVE in a church setting.
Read MoreNew child - deployed parent - busy season for working parents.
Changes happen... and whoever is left with the kids is probably overwhelmed.
Without realizing it... sometimes we are paying more attention to the negative behaviors... and not focusing on the behaviors we want.
"Be nice to your sister" "Bring me a diaper please" *takes pictures of the baby* "Be soft!" "Quiet voice!" Pretty soon we pay so much attention to these behaviors, that this is what our child WANTS to do, for connection with us.
NONE of those phrases were mean. But none of them were focusing on him. They were all about sister. Absolutely, we want him to be helpful and kind, and quiet. BUT, we need to pad all of those directions with POSITIVE, WARM interactions. Look him in the eye, "you are a good helper, thank you" "Wow bud, look at the tower" "Charlie I love you" *take picture of baby, take picture of Charlie*
Read MoreI’m gonna be honest with you and say, I HATE SNOW. Snow clothes and all that jazz, I’m over it REAL fast. So I’m not the mom out there building igloos and slides. If you’re that mom, I have lots of snow… come on over and step in for me???
What’s challenging is not giving into the tv, electronics, video games, ipads etc. all winter long. It’d be really easy to replace that outside time with these things, but guess what. I have a plethora of solutions for you.
#1. Indoor Gross Motor Toys
I’ll show you a peek at a few others we have. But my climbing, bouncing boy… he has a huge amount of energy. He wants to jump and climb, wrestle… kick things. And if I don’t give him a safe place to do that… guess what… he’s jumping, climbing and kicking me and his sister. NOT an option. Today I’m going to talk about my Lily and River climber. It’s AMAZING.
I’m all about open ended toys. This is that. There’s not one way to use it. The slide can be at a million levels. It can also be a playdough table, a place to play cars, a ramp… and then flip it over it’s a rock climbing wall or a ramp with obstacles. I didn’t discover this on my own. I put the toy out… and then just let Charlie do WHATEVER the heck he wanted with it. I love that it can be a climber, or it can turn into a fort, a ladder for his stuffed puppy to climb. It’s AMAZING.
Highly highly recommend this toy as an indoor playground, climber, slide… and so much more.
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Read MoreThis week we are going to be talking about conflict with peers, friends, cousins etc.
First and foremost, this is my philosophy.
If a kid misspells a word, do we warn them, put them in timeout or turn their card to red. NO. Because they haven't learned the correct way. Same thing with behavior, if you have not taken time to teach it. That's step one. NOT timeouts or consequences. But this is a foreign idea and it is HARD. So I'm gonna support you!!!
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