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Giveaway and Book Discount
This competition and discount offer are now finished. The draw for the handmade chocolates and bone carving will be carried out tomorrow and the winner announced here. Many thanks to all who have supported me … Continue reading
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Tagged book, butterfly, chocolates, discount, giveaway, hare, karyn van der zwet, kloppenmum, owl, temperament, tortoise, why people drive you crazy
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Tantrums: Different Kinds need different Strategies
Both Margot Sunderland (The Science of Parenting) and Diane Levy (Of Course I Love You…NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM!) and probably lots of other people too, have identified that there are two different kinds of tantrums. The first sort identified … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting Tricks, Tantrums, Temperament
Tagged active alert, behaviour, boring cuddles, butterfly, challenge tantrums, child, children, choleric, communication, Diane Levy, disconnection tantrums, distress tantrum, education, emotion, environmental tantrum, family, hare, how to manage different tantrums, kids, low blood-sugar tantrum, Margot Sunderland, maturity, melancholic, naughty, Of Course I love you...now go to your room, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, phlegmatic, physiological tantrum, physiological tantrums, power tantrum, psychology, raise, sanguine, school, sleep deprivation tantrum, stress, tantrum, temperament, The Science of Parenting, tortoise, understand people, what kinds of tantrums are there, when my child won't practise their
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Right Behaviour – Wrong Place
Toddlers don’t excite me. Yes, I know they’re very cute and there’s nothing so lovely as those little arms sneaking around your neck for a snuggle. They’re highly entertaining, I’ll grant you that. They’re learning a heap and changing every … Continue reading
Can Your Kids Accept Help? Can You?
One of the key indicators of people who are constantly breathing-in (Breathing In and Out: One Idea for Avoiding Burn Out), is their inability to accept help. Often they are the first people to put their hand-up when someone else needs something done, … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Tricks, Signs All's Well
Tagged accepting help, active alert, asking for help, behaviour, butterfly, can't accept help, child, children, choleric, communication, control, emotion, family, hare, intrusive help, kids, maturity, melancholic, naughty, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, phlegmatic, psychology, raise, sanguine, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, stress, temperament, tortoise, understand people
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Electronics and Children – Part Last?
On Tuesday morning, at the bus-stop, another Mum and I were discussing the effects of tv etc on children. Many people don’t want to hear it, but she and I agreed – unless a parent has compared the difference between their children without (for at least … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics
Tagged active alert, addiction, affected by television, behaviour, butterfly, charlie and the chocolate factory, child, children, choleric, communication, contrast in behaviour, creativity, dvd, effects of television, family, hare, kids, marie winn, maturity, melancholic, naughty, oompa-loompa, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, psychology, raise, roald dahl, sanguine, school, self-assurance, self-assured, self-esteem, stress, tantrum, television, temperament, the plug in drug, tortoise, tv, understand people, xbox
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Strategy for Repair: Immediately after your Anger
The sense of shame I feel immediately after I’ve lost my rag with one of our kids is awful. They’re my least favourite moments as a Mum. Yes, usually it’s with the Hare – bless his little button-pushing socks. Particularly with him, … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Tricks, Tantrums, Uncategorized
Tagged anger, behaviour, butterfly, child, children, choleric, communication, emotion, family, frustration, hare, kids, make up after a fight, make up after an arguement, maturity, melancholic, naughty, overwhelmed, parenting, phlegmatic, psychology, raise, repair the damage, sanguine, shame, understand people
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Trust – Part One
About a year ago, the Hare started taking longer bike rides. Not just around the small block, the medium block or the big block: he wanted to stretch his wings a little more. The first few times he was great: he went, … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Tricks
Tagged behaviour, breaking trust, butterfly, child, children, choleric, family, hare, kids, maturity, naughty, overwhelmed, owl, parenting, phlegmatic, psychology, risk, risk-taking, sanguine, temperament, trust, trust children, trust in families, trust parents, trusted, understand people
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Signs of Great Parenting: Pre-School to Age Six
It can be difficult to really know how our parenting is going. There are many children who seem to be fine when they are young but then go off the rails, and others who seem rather childish and end up being more mature … Continue reading
Posted in Home Environment, Parenting Styles, Parenting Tricks, Signs All's Well
Tagged behaviour, boring cuddles, butterfly, child, children, choleric, communication, family, good adults, hare, kids, maturity, melancholic, owl, parent, parenting, parents, phlegmatic, psychology, raise, sanguine, self-assurance, self-assured, signs of good parenting, signs of great parenting, sociology, temperament, tortoise, understand people
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