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Wise Parenting Tips

My wife found this excellent article with five very wise observations and parenting tips for families in today’s world.    All of the five are excellent.  I recommend it.

http://www.crosswalk.com/family/parenting/kids/5-ways-you-are-ruining-your-child-s-life.html

The first one about the effect of the priority of amusements for children today is also a reflection of how families think about getting through the moment rather than thinking about the long-term effect of  what is happening.  This is also the case with the lack of  putting priority  on practicing our faith and with not putting priority on time for our marriages.     Perhaps it is up to the older generation who have more time perspective to remind in tactful ways of the long-term view.   But taking the longer-term perspective also needs to become more of a cultural habit of our society than it currently is whether the issue is family finances, raising of children, considering divorce, or professional growth.

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“Vitamin N” for children

I have long said that one of parents’ main jobs is teaching their children the meaning of “no.”   Here is a great article from the Hartford Courant in which the writer, John Rosemond, calls this kind of teaching for children “Vitamin N.”   Mr. Rosemond also mentions that far from dashing the happiness of children, the experience of  “Vitamin N” actually contributes to their long-term happiness.   On the other hand, the nonstop indulgence common today is producing increasingly depressed people who can’t get enough kicks to keep the party going.

http://digitaledition.courant.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=f610bf18-8790-4290-81cd-7657fa9fc571

 

 

 

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An interesting approach for helping difficult children

An interesting approach for helping difficult children

This psychologist is pointing out that troubled children need to have their thinking processes reprogrammed in a way that traditional simple positive and negative consequences approach does not do.   It is an interesting read.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/schools-behavior-discipline-collaborative-proactive-solutions-ross-greene