“Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It’ll be OK.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture As a parent it is often hard to know where to draw the line. Am I being too strict? Too lenient? How do I… Read more »
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin Good Morning! As a young parent I felt it was my duty to impart all of my knowledge to my children. (Little did I know at the time how much they would teach me.) During those… Read more »
“There are many positives with ADD, including a surplus of ideas, creativity, excitement, and interest which accompany this kind of mind.” – Sari Solden, “Women With Attention Deficit Disorder.” Good Morning, Very often when a parent is first told that their child has ADD/ADHD they can only think of the negative traits of ADD/ADHD. My… Read more »
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” –Carl Jung Good Morning! Some of you may have heard the old adage “do as I say, not as I do”. This was often said by adults when I was growing up. I think that it was meant to be humorous but there… Read more »
You don’t have to attend every argument to which you’re invited! Dr. Lara Markham http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/Parenting-Strong-Willed-Child Good Morning! I was reading an article by Dr. Lara Markham and this sentence really resonated with me. It was a thought that I have often had but never could quite put it into words as well as she… Read more »
“As you rumble and rush through your day, pause to remember how amazing and new the world is to the young children in your life.” Explorations Early Learning Good Morning! It’s Monday. It is the beginning of the week and most likely it is going to be a busy week. School, homework and a… Read more »
“ADHD. It is not a disability, it is a different ability” Unknown Raising a child with ADHD is not always easy, but it sure is never boring! It takes patience, it takes the ability to always stay calm and it takes the ability to not take everything so seriously. I am very lucky that… Read more »
‘Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist’ – Michael Levine Good Morning! The day I brought my first child home from the hospital was the scariest day of my life. I had no idea what to do! For the first time I fully realized that… Read more »
“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.” (Dutch Proverb) Good Morning! For me, the hardest thing to learn when raising my children was patience. The dictionary defines patience “as the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset”. If we go by that definition, I had very little. Having ADHD definitely was… Read more »
Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying. Technologyrocksseriously.com Good Morning, I cannot count the number of mistakes that I made raising my children. I cannot count them because there are way to many of them! Considering the number of parenting mistakes I made, I am thrilled with today’s quote. Instead of being embarrassed about all of… Read more »
