Play Their Games It may seem obvious that we need to play their games when we play with our children, but it’s sometimes not easy to get into that mindset. I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s common among fathers, but I…
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Teach to Exercise How do you teach to exercise? It’s quite easy as you might know, just do it and let them see you do it. Kids naturally want to do what we do. It would be nice to think that we could teach to…
Groom For Success What does it mean to groom for success? Like every parent, I would love my kids to be seen as well behaving kids and that is certainly a worthy goal to have. You may not realize until it’s too late that you…
Encourage Questions Kids have the most awesome questions and we should always encourage questions. How? By answering them of course and telling them how awesome their question is and how smart they are to have thought of it because they are smart. I remember when…
Remember they forget As you can see, my daughter forgot that she’s not supposed to draw on the walls. We have to remember they forget! We keep telling her every time we give her crayons and paper that she’s to draw only on the paper. I…
Say What you Do and Do What You Say Others use “Say What you Mean and Mean What You Say” instead of “Say What You Do and Do What You Say” and there are other ways of saying the same thing, but it’s all about…
Make Juice Freezies Your kids will love them and you will be serving them healthier snacks. My wife was telling me how our little ones were enjoying orange juice freezies the other day and she was telling me how bad the other stuff at the…
Praise Your Children We should even over do it sometimes. Have you ever noticed how your children react when you tell them how good they are at something? When they are younger, they beam of excitement when we praise them and tell them how happy…
Get on Their Level We should always treat others how we want to be treated, right? So, get on their level, kids don’t like to be talked down to anymore than we do. It’s not always easy to remember and to think about that, especially…
What is Delayed Gratification? I was talking to my wife tonight and she told me about a amazing story today about parenting and I felt so proud of her moment. Delayed gratification is when you don’t give in or reward until after a certain time.…