Comments for Parenting Help - Little Precious Gems

Comment on The Best Parenting Help To Resolve Toddler Tantrums by Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:40:10 +0000

One of the best ways to avoid toddler tantrums is to give them a predictable schedule. Most toddler tantrums are related specifically to their inability to have control over a situation. Don’t believe me? Just try interrupting your toddler to quickly pull them away from their activity to go to playschool or run an errand and watch the meltdown happen! At this age, they are figuring out that they are independent and can make decisions but they have not learned the cause and effect concepts yet. They have not developed the social skills needed to address their worries and inabilities to exercise their newly discovered free will internally so they act out. Once I gave my kids a predictable schedule, the toddler tantrums were reduced to almost nothing!

I developed a calendaring system specifically for this age group as a result of my own personal success with my own 4 children. It uses graphic icons that can be dragged and dropped into a calendar or chore chart that your toddler can then understand and start to use to predict their day. It gives them that much needed sense of control and predictability to their day/week/month. Visit my website and try it out for yourself …see what empowering toddlers can do to reduce both their stress and yours!

Comment on Parenting Help - Importance of Teaching Morals and Values to Children by Nikeeta M. Collins

Nikeeta M. Collins — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:27:14 +0000

As a child, I was always given leadership, guidance, instruction and correction from adults, adults who were clearly not practicing what they were preaching. I was always opinionated and one to question indifferences, so I would ask why was I not allowed to do the things I was “watching” them tell me not to do? I always received the same response in justification: “Do as I say, not as I do!”

Now I have four daughters of my own, who watch everything I do and no matter what I tell them not to do, they do exactly what they see my doing.

One day, my girls asked me, “Mom” why do you get on us so much for the things we do, that you did, didn’t you have fun?” Didn’t take long for me to look in their eyes and have flashbacks of things I’d done that I wished I could go back and reverse my response and choice to. I responded with, “The things you call fun were mistakes that if I had’ve known what I know now would not have happened.”

As a parent, leader and/or role model to the youth, we want what’s best for our children and don’t want them to make the same mistakes we made. We all vividly remember the consequences for certain unforgettable actions and carry some of the stripes to prove it. The current generation of young adults are demanding that we not be hypocritical and follow the same instructions we are giving if they are so good for them!

The current generation is DEMANDING CHANGE!

The day of “Do as I say, not as I do” for the adults speaking to the youth is over! We should all strive to lead by example! The children are watching & they are learning what we are living!

Comment on Role of Parents, Preschool Teachers & Classmates in the Development of Language Skills in a Child by Carol

Carol — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:17:02 +0000

Soft cooing and loving when infants need not follow into the toddler years. As soon as the child shows interest in speaking repeating the word the child is working on is so important.

Encouraging Please, Thank you and other good manners from the beginning will avoid re-training latter.

I’ve encouraged my children to not speak baby language and model the behaviors and language they want their children to display latter. There is not enough to be said for practicing great skills.

Good article!

Comment on Natural Approaches You Can Employ To Achieve Glowing Skin by Lisa Lomas

Lisa Lomas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:10:19 +0000

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Comment on Role of Parents, Preschool Teachers & Classmates in the Development of Language Skills in a Child by Joann Woolley

Joann Woolley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:28:26 +0000

This makes sense, children that demonstrate things well are almost always better “teachers” to other children. So if one child is speaking well and my child enjoys playing with him/her, it is likely her language will mimmick what she hears. Sometimes the obvious escapes us.

Comment on Role of Parents, Preschool Teachers & Classmates in the Development of Language Skills in a Child by anaokulu

anaokulu — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Very nice great article thank you…

Comment on Natural Approaches You Can Employ To Achieve Glowing Skin by Stacie @ newmommyhelp.net

Stacie @ newmommyhelp.net — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:53:17 +0000

I love trying natural beauty treatments. I’m going to try the honey mask first. Thanks!

Comment on Parenting Help with Drinking Teens: A Cold Splash of Reality that You Have to Face by christian parenting

christian parenting — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:22:50 +0000

Communicate with your teen. Be a friend and be cool. That’s a great way for them to listen to you.

Comment on Parenting Help on How to Stimulate Your Child’s Development by Sarah B.

Sarah B. — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:36:57 +0000

Until my son was 2 it was just me and his father, then he went to a great program through Girls,Inc and has been in school ever since. (He is in the Gifted and Talented program at his school and has exceeded all state testing scores in Reading two years in a row and year in Math, can’t have it all but he was still above the scores for the state and the school.) We never once spoke baby talk to our son in a goo goo gah gah sense. We gave the oohs and ahs when necessary but other than that we spoke to him like we were speaking to each other which made his vocabulary vast beyond his years when he was growing up. He would use words that kids twice his age would use for a 3 or 4yr old would use in the right context and people would be amazed. One time he and I were shopping and he used a certain word, I cannot remember it was so long a go, I do know he was trying to explain something to me. This older woman heard him and asked did he just say that word, I said yes, and she was like he used it in the right context and again I said yes. Our children are sponges, let them soak up everything, take away the video games that’s suppose to help with early learning. The only true way to help with early learning is by one on one contact with a parent reading and playtime. Allowing your child to actually use his or her imagination by giving them a box and some toys and leaving them alone in their room. My son would play for hours by himself having battles and I swear I would hear other voices and it is just him having a ball. Fathers let your son play house, let him be the father in role playing so he can become comfortable around girls in the future. That is how true honest learning is developed in children. Make them use their brain when they ask you a question about anything and see what they say, ask them what do they think about what they asked you. Dr.Seuss was on to something they are the best books ever, to read to your children, ever. They offer the very tools a child needs for recognition of words by the repetiveness. The pictures are colorful to keep the childs attention. Throw those games away that have your child using video games like learning devices. All it does is teach them how to play video games better, they are not learning the word itself and what it means to sound out the word by reading it in a book.

Comment on Enumerating the 3 Best Parenting Help Tips on Keeping Your Kids Safe Online by Adam

Adam — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:18:35 +0000

I think when they first start the most important thing is to be beside them and teach them the safe way to do things.