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Ask yourself these questions before you contemplate becoming a parent.
1. Can you support the child financially? Children are expensive. If you found yourself in the role of sole provider are you self-supporting?
2. Can you support the child emotionally? Babies are cute, but they are also completely helpless and emotionally needy. The parent’s responsibility is to love and sacrifice for the child.
3. Are you prepared to be a consistent parent? Children learn by example and that means both good and bad. Are you prepared to be a role model for the behaviors you want your child to mimic? Because mimic they do. They learn more from what they observe than what they’re told.
4. Are you prepared to put someone else’s needs before your own for the next 20 years?
Hope these questions help you in your decision on becoming a parent!!
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December 7th, 2006
When is the last time you belted out a good, long belly laugh with your kids? Here are easy ways to bring more fun into your family’s days.
Start on a happy note. the tone you set in the morning can make or break the day, so lighten up. Find what’s causing the major stress (you can’t find the keys, the backpack, the homework), then get organized: Use a hook on the door for the keys; leave a basket on the step for backpacks; set out lunch money the night before; plan an easier way to do breakfast.
Watch classic comedy at home. All those violent, dramatic, scary videos can wreak havoc and break down our funny bones. Check out classic comedies. Pop the popcorn, slip the disc into the DVD player and laugh together.
Buy a family-friendly joke book. Store it in the car for those long rides (or when you’re ready to pull your hair out). One kid can be the joke teller (or “house jester”), and the rest of the family can guess the punch lines.
Start a cartoon bulletin board. Cut out those cartoons, print out those funny e-mails and put them on the refrigerator with magnets. Some moms even slip copies of jokes into their kids’ lunch boxes or tape them to their bathroom mirrors or onto the kids’s doors. Fun to come home to!
(sc) contributing editor for BrowneyedBabyboutique
December 6th, 2006
Helping a child with learning difficulties just got easier. SchwabLearning.org is a free website for parents of kids with learning and attention problems. You’ll find over 300 articles from experts, free publications, helpful resources and insights from other parents who know what you’re going through.
(sc) contributing editor for BrownEyedBabyBoutique
December 5th, 2006
Capturning kid’s imaginations can make them want to eat fruits and veggies!
One great healthy treat is called, Go fish! Scoop low-fat cream cheese into a bowl. (Tint it with blue food coloring so it looks like a pond.) Put fish-shaped crackers in a separate bowl. Tell kids to dip celery sticks first into the cheese, then into the crackers to see how many “fish” they can catch!
One more is the Mixmaster! Set out bowls of chopped or sliced fruit, then let kids play chef (complete with a hat and apron) by choosing which ones to put in the blender for a smoothie. Have them add ice and juice (orange and carrot juice work well), then supervise as they turn on the blender.
Most of all parents, have fun with the your children and enjoy the healthy snacks and browse BrownEyedBabyBoutique for some great toy ideas for Christmas!
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December 1st, 2006
Here is the story of a father who wanted to teach an important lesson to his son. He went out under a tree and gathered up a handful of branches that were small enough to break quite easily. The father tied them together with a piece of string so that they became such a bundle that the boy could hardly hold them in his hands.
“Now”, said the father, “I will give you a dollar if you will break these branches in two.” the boy tried with all his strength, but couldn’t make them bend.
“I can’t do it, Dad,” the boy said. “Let’s see you try.”
“It’s easy,” his father said. “All you have to do is to break them one at a time.”
So he untied the string and took each one and broke it easily.
The lesson here is that if we take all our problems at once and try to solve them we can’t, but if we take them one at a time it is so much easier!
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November 29th, 2006
Many parents adopt a decidedly low-tech approach to parenting, and for the most part, you don’t need all that stuff to raise a healthy happy baby. But there are a few things that make it easier!
Brown Eyed Baby Boutique offers several different kinds of “stuff” to help you start out with that newborn. From adorable baby clothes to toys that encourage your child’s intellectual growth right from the start! So, stop in our “on line store” and browse! We will be happy to help you find just that right item for your little tike!
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November 28th, 2006
As natural as worry is for us its not what we should spend our every waking moment doing! The world in which we live is full of very large problems. Each day brings new issues that must be dealt with. Not one of these issues, big or small, can be solved by the loss of sleep, by tied-up nerves, by headaches, backaches, or by any other companions of worry.
Dad and Mom, if you worry then you miss all the sunshine of life because you are forever expecting rain. You make a storm out of a shower, a disaster out of a disappointment.
If we would concentrate on thinking on truth, goodness, pure and lovely things, fine and good traits in others and praise and gratefulness then we would have very little time for the negative, destructive thinking which worry produces. Also, we would become like our thoughts!
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November 27th, 2006
Thanksgiving is special because everyone brings something different to the table! Yes the traditional turkey, sweet potatoes, dressing, cranberry salad, the green bean casserole, and yes the pies! But one year, someone brought blue mashed potatoes to the table! And yes, even those potatoes were blessed.
We think of Thanksgiving as having graditute for all the things we were blessed for this past year! Even those things that seemingly were not the most blessed, did turn out to be the best for us!
So as you sit at your Thanksgiving table this year, look around at those sitting at your table, especially the little kids and babies, and let each know how important they are and what you are grateful for in their lives!
Happy Thanksgiving!
(sc)
November 22nd, 2006
Evaluate your present discipline plan as objectively as possible.
1. Do I allow my child to make personal choices within the limitations of his age and abilities?
2. Do I frequentily consider whether or not my child is ready for more freedom and responsitbility?
3. Do I assign responsibilities and limits?
Resolve to diligently put these into practice as you seek to discipline your children.
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November 21st, 2006
A young mother described her tedious days as “living in Dullsville.” And we all know the child who, becoming bored with his toys says, “There’s nothing to do.”
At every age there seems to be times when there’s no relief from monotony–as though we were living in “Dullsville.”
But does that have to be?
Look for the excitement in each and every day. Oh, I don’t mean Fourth of July, firecracker excitement, a momentary burst that then fizzles out. Rather, I have in mind the sheer wonder of being alive and having the blessings of a touch or smile or question from those children you have! Parents, look deep into their eyes, you are needed in their lives!! You have the potential of passing on some knowledge and love and compassion that will grow that child into a fantastic adult!
Look to this day for in it are all the wonders of life!
(sc)
November 17th, 2006
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