Staying positive
I had to go grocery shopping today and it was quite a gloomy eerie feeling. Even though I was at the stores at 7.30 a.m. there were so many people. All trying to stay away from each other and all so quiet like at a …
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Of superheros and people “enjoying the downtime”
In social media posts of people stating, that they are enjoying their downtime during corona virus keep popping up. Some people even start to complain that they are bored. Somehow this triggered something in me. So I just have to get this out: I am …
To keep from drowning- watch the Dads!
True story! If we Moms wouldn’t constantly watch those Dads… I guess sometimes the kids are more reliable than the fathers… 😉
Kids in traffic – getting to school
Where I live, kids are supposed to get to school by themselves. From first grade on schools and the local police encourage parents strongly to not drive their children to school but to let them walk. As a special gift every first grader receives a …
How limits and rules help my children to have more freedom
As explained before, I believe that everyone will find limits in life. That is just how live is and we will all have to learn how to live a happy live within certain limits. Freedom comes with responsibility. When I teach my kids, to respect limits for their own or other people’s sake, I teach them to be responsible. The more my kids learn to take on responsibility, I the more freedom I can give them. For example: When I teach my children, how to behave safely in traffic, what rules they have to stick to, when crossing a street, then I can let them walk to school or a playground alone. When I can rely on them and know they will comply to certain safety rules when using a pocket knife, I can let them use a pocket knife without constant supervision. When my kids have learned how to behave at the dinner table, I can allow them to eat over at a friend’s house, without being embarrassed…
By teaching our kids the right rules and limits, in the long run, we give our kids more freedom.
What we have to :
- meet our child’s needs,
- to respect our child’s limits
- to voice our own needs
- set our own limits.
Of course there are limits!
Know your limits and teach your kid limits Writing about limits? “Should I really write about setting rules and limits?”, I asked myself. I am fed up with all this parenting advice telling me exactly when and how to set limits and how I would …