Hole in Her Pocket - Help For Your Spendthrift
Does birthday or allowance money burn a hole in your childs pocket? If we're truthful, most of us will answer yes. Fear not! It's never too late (or too early) to teach your child fiscal sense. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
A Fun Outing
For children aged 3 - 12. Take your son or daughter to her favorite store. Give her $2, $5, and $15 dollars to spend. (Amount doesn't matter as long as she can purchase something for that amount.) Let your child take her time to decide what she'll...
What's Her Type? Keys To Understanding Your Child
"Let us beware and beware and beware
of having an ideal for our children. So doing, we damn them." D.H. Lawrence
So begins the parenting chapter of David Keirsey's Please Understand Me, II. Although "typing" personalities began in the days of Plato, nearly 2400 years ago, most of us have not been given the tools to understand one another.
When I was a child and was hurt or confused by a friend's behavior, my mother and grandmother would say "Everyone's crazy but me and thee. And sometime I...
Wrong Crowd?
"Hey, Mom!" Your fourteen-year old daughter greets you as she walks to the car. Your eyes bulge at the blue eye shadow and black liner smudged around her eyes.
Your daughter turns and waves to a made-up girl in a tight shirt and ripped jeans standing on the sidewalk. The girl waves back and saunters away, hips swinging from side to side.
"Who's your friend?" you manage to ask.
"Oh, no one," she replies.
Sooner or later, our daughter will buddy up with a peer whose values and upbringing do...
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