24 Ideas for Creating a Happy Home
In teaching parenting workshops, I have found that one of the most eye-opening activities has always been the Happy Home Interview. Parents go home and ask their children two simple questions: “What is a happy home like?” and “What makes our home feel good?” Consistently, parents come back amazed by the honesty and simplicity of the answers they receive from their children. The answers are usually about small, everyday things. Almost never have children mentioned exotic trips, pools,...
Read More10 Parenting Lessons that Will Make a Significant Impact on Your Child’s Life
Have you ever received an instruction manual for something you bought that was 50 pages long, but included in the box was also a Quick Start guide? Do you ever wish our children came with a Quick Start guide? We spend years worrying about whether or not we are parenting our children correctly, and it often takes over 18 years for us to find out the results. Well, I’ve been parenting for almost 21 years now and so I feel pretty safe in writing this “so called Quick Start Guide”. It...
Read More10 Reasons Your Child is Always Hyper
NannyFlower.com shared a great article with Momnificent! readers on hyperactivity and what can cause this in our children. Hope you learn something from it. I know my own child can become hyper when he is overtired. Do you have hyperactive kids? Sometimes kids are just being kids and people are too quick to label them as hyper or having ADD or ADHD. There’s a lot more to the ADD and ADHD than being hyper. There are many reasons why kids can become hyper. Check out 10 reasons your child is...
Read More11 Ways Teens Abuse Their Smart Phones
My 20 year old son recently got his first iPhone. I cringed thinking about the first time he was going to lose it, drop it, get water on it, or do some other kind of damage to it. He informed me that he got a special case for it that would protect it. He said to me “The guy told me I could throw the phone across the parking lot and it wouldn’t break.” I asked him “Does the case protect you from losing the phone?” My son replied “What do you...
Read MoreThe #1 Food That’s Undermining Your Family
Candy Easter bunnies are headed your way soon. The table at the pot-luck school breakfast you just attended was piled high with donuts. The community event had a sweets table a mile-long. Sugary foods are everywhere, and our kids are reaching for it. It’s a real challenge to feed your kids well in a world that doesn’t! You know by now that sugar-filled foods are not good for your kids. You know it on a cognitive level, but often what we know doesn’t actually impact the choice you make. In...
Read MoreGet Radical – Make the Changes You Need to Have the Life you Want
The Good Life with Forbes Riley and Charlie What does it take to rev up your engine and get into gear, so you can get out of that muddy rut you’re in? We’re talking about making MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS people, and the time is NOW! As challenging as it may seem, you CAN bring radical change to your life and you WILL live to tell the story (longer, happier and healthier, we might add). But how do you do it? Enter Doreen Rainey, Get Radical success coach, who channels powerful forces to...
Read More5 Ways to Help Your Children Find their Gifts and Passions
My son Ian has recently found a new program called Google Sketch Up. It was a free download that enabled him to learn how to start designing 3D pictures of houses and buildings. Ian started developing a passion for houses a couple of years ago, and he has been drawing one dimensional house plans for about a year. After we downloaded Google Sketch Up, we watched a few beginner tutorials together so he could learn some basics of the program. I told him to practice and design his first house for...
Read More10 Reasons Strong Discipline is Needed for Children
National Nannies shared a great article with Momnificent readers about the importance of strong discipline for kids: To be clear when I refer to strong discipline I do not mean any type of corporal punishment. Kids when I was growing up could be disciplined by any adult that saw them doing something wrong. If you were bad at school you were sent to the principal to get a spanking. And they usually used a paddle to do the spanking. If your neighbor saw you and your brother fighting outside they...
Read More10 Ways to Stand Up to Sad, Puppy Dog Eyes
We all know just how cute our kids can be. And our kids know just when to throw us those sad, puppy dog eyes, or that cute little pout. It’s when we’re tired, or we’ve had an especially good day with them. But NannyClassifieds has some great tips for us on how to stand firm and be the mom our kids need: “He has you wrapped around his little finger!” That was the comment so often made to the parent or adult who just couldn’t resist the big sad look of the child who...
Read More5 Ways to Make Healthy Fun
When you tell a child to eat something because it’s good for them you’re probably going to be faced with a tongue being stuck out at you or a grimace in protest. Kids aren’t interested in being healthy; they’re interested in participating in fun activities and in eating delicious foods. With the rising childhood obesity rates though it’s becoming more important than ever to find a way to make being healthy the cool thing to do, not something reserved for nutrition nuts and exercise...
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