Don’t tie reading to any sort of rewards or punishment. Make some reading every day a requirement but also put books in front of your child that he wants to read.
Summer is here… your kids are surely looking forward to the break from school. How about you? Are you feeling ready for your family-together-time? If you aren’t feeling so ready—consider sitting down with the kids to brainstorm fun activity ideas together. Have the kids write out a list of things they would like to do […]
Sometimes a child’s great idea, the one that makes him rouse from his boredom with a shout of “I’ve got it!” – sometimes it’s an idea too large, too dangerous, or too expensive to pull off.
So many parents complain, especially at holiday and birthday time, how ungrateful their children are. It’s hard to put in all the time, effort, and money into our children’s upbringing and wants and desires only to have them take and take and show no appreciation. So how do we turn this around? How do we […]