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A strong-willed child is a lot to handle. They refuse to submit to authority and parents think this is about becoming disobedient. But it’s more of asserting what they want. And you can turn this into a plus point for your child.
1. Resist the power struggle. Often, a strong-willed child will engage in power struggle if they can get away with it. Enforce routines so that this doesn’t escalate. Stick with schedules so that you don’t have to argue witht he kid.
2. Give the child a chance to take charge. Let them be the “boss”. If you’re going to do the groceries, for example, you can have her prepare the list of things to buy. This will make her feel empowered, as if her choices do matter in the house. And that’s very important for a strong-willed child. They need to be recognized for the things they can do.
3. Listen and listen. Often the cause of misunderstanding in every kind of relationship is that our listening skills break down. Learn to hear out your child when she is being insistent. Not only will this phase her down and you avoid a full blown power struggle, you will also see the underlying reasons for her resistence to the way you discipline or enforce rules in the house.
4. Resist the urge to punish. The more you do this, the more she will love challenging you and pushing your buttons. Instead, approach the child calmly by talking and emphatizing, and you will gain more integrity in their eyes.
This is the most dreaded part I do as a parent — preparing my children’s lunch for school. I easily run out of ideas and more often than not, just give them money for it. And it does get expensive.
The idea of packing lunch for school is to ensure that your children are eating right and not wasting money buying food that may be overpriced. In some schools, lunch are subsidized, hence it is free. But you can’t be sure about it’s nutritional value as well.
So, doing a little bit of what a friend has suggested, I’ve rounded up the kids and discussed with them what they want to bring to school for lunch. This way, I’d eliminate packing them food they won’t end up eating, which means it will just go to waste. Letting them in on the decision also helps to know the kinds of food they’d love eating. During the discussion, as parents, we can also provide inputs like why having fruits is important or why certain foods are better than the ones they actually like to pack.
Have a checklist handy when you’re discussing, so that this becomes your list for when you do the grocery and cook the meal. It should make it easy for mothers who think of what to cook next, when the kids have already said what they really want to eat.
And aside from food and drinks, make sure to also incorporate taking supplements in you kids’ diet. School can be very demanding and they may need lots of vitamins and minerals just to get through the week.
A father posted this on his son’s Facebook account:
A father posted this on his son’s Facebook account, as a way to teach his son to log out of his account when he is not on the computer:
“To all of Chris’ friends: This is his father. My son carelessly left his account logged in so I decided to snoop around. Upon reading my son’s personal information, I would like to clear a few things up. My son is not a “gangsta,” he will not “beat a ho’s ass” and he will most certainly not “roll a fatty wit his boyz.” So for all of those who think he is some hard ass thug, think again…he is Chris _______, a 15 year old kid that was afraid of the dark until he was 12 and cried at the end of Marley and Me.”
To his son’s friends, this was funny and quite revealing.
But I wonder if the boy felt humiliated by the act.
Do you and your kids Facebook together? I’m friends with my own kids, but as much as possible, I stay away from their activities and have limited their access to my wall.
As teenagers, they can get easily embarrased by their parents, that much I know. I don’t even tag my son as much, since he may not want his friends to see photos of him as a naked 3 year old or something like that.
Do you think this father crossed the line or do you find what he did as amusing?
Planning a nursery? All people are given the freehand to build their baby rooms or nurseries and apparently a new addition to that has to do with eco-friendliness for the sake of health living for tots.
Most designs starting from the crib all the way to baby furniture have become health hazards as we see toddlers encountering some unfortunate incidents that has to do with chemicals and accidents. CoCalo however has a great offer to all parents out there and perhaps they should check it out.
CoCaLo uses environmentally friendly fiber-reactive dyes, which contain no heavy metals or known toxic substances. The process used at the print facility is in accordance with environmental standards for water purification and recycling.
Give your toddlers a safer environment apart from the health-constrained world we live in. Keep them healthy with a cozy and worry-free sleeping environment.
