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500+ Things to do With Your Kids - SlapDashMom.com. Digital Kindergarten: Teaching Tools: Montessori Apps. MetroDad: The Rules: 25 Life lessons for my daughter. My father has never given me any advice. The one time I remember him even trying was when I was 18 and on my way out of the house for the evening. As I recall, he briefly looked up from his newspaper and said, "You know about condoms, right? " End of conversation. Thank you, Obi Wan Kenobi. In all seriousness, it always deeply wounded me that we never had any of those father-son conversations where he would counsel me about life and give me lessons of an admonitory or hortative nature that might provide a road map for how to live my life. Needless to say, ever since my daughter was born, I've been bombarding her with advice on a near-daily basis. My list of lessons that I want to pass down to her is virtually endless and constantly changing but I thought I'd write some of those lessons down here. Some of these lessons are humorous.

However, all of them are true... (2) Lennon, not McCartney. . (3) Life is too short not to order the fries. (6) Don't worry about being popular. . (9) Never cheat. Karma's World: Home. 24 People Who Are Really Nailing This Parenting Thing. 7 Things Every Parent Should Discuss with Their Children and 3 Things They Absolutely Should Not. Image via John Cave Osborne To be an effective parent, you must also be an effective communicator.

7 Things Every Parent Should Discuss with Their Children and 3 Things They Absolutely Should Not

Yet being an effective communicator doesn’t necessarily make you an effective parent. After all, there’s the little issue of what, exactly, it is that you should be communicating to your children. And, perhaps even more importantly, what it is that you shouldn’t be communicating to them. Here are seven things that definitely need to be covered: 1. Image: DamienHR’s photostream via Creative Commons Parents owe it to their children to have a discussion about God, whether they’re believers or not. 2. Image: je@an’s photostream via Creative Commons A lot of people have a hard time talking about sex with their spouse, much less with their children, but it’s imperative to tackle this issue early and often. 3. Image: Marion Doss’s photostream via Creative Commons You don’t exactly have to keep your eyes peeled for tragic stories involving fatalities due to underage drinking and drug use. 4.

25 Ways to Talk So Children Will Listen. A major part of discipline is learning how to talk with children.

25 Ways to Talk So Children Will Listen

The way you talk to your child teaches him how to talk to others. Here are some talking tips we have learned with our children: 1. Connect Before You Direct Before giving your child directions, squat to your child’s eye level and engage your child in eye-to-eye contact to get his attention. 2. Open your request with the child’s name, “Lauren, will you please…” 3. We use the one-sentence rule: Put the main directive in the opening sentence. 25 Ways to Talk So Children Will Listen.

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