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Shared Bedrooms How To Make It Work By Sherrie Le Masurier
If you have more children than you have space, it's time for some creative solutions. Sharing a bedroom means having two of everything - duplicate beds, dressers, storage units etc. To avoid conflict over who has the better desk or dresser consider the same furnishings for both children. Their individuality is expressed in your creative approach to decorating each child's own space. One good approach is to give each sibling his own set of belongings in his own color and seek input from him regarding how he wishes to decorate his part of the shared bedroom. It's important that shared bedrooms have some consistent design elements that tie the room together and a storage system which encourages organization from both parties. To eliminate major design and dĂŠcor conflicts it's important that you harmonize 3 the individual spaces. By carefully meshing two tastes into one overall environment you can create a welcoming space that's ideal for both sleep and
Shared Bedrooms - How To Make It Work (continued) By Sherrie Le Masurier
Encourage your children to either decide on two different but coordinating room colors or one main color in two different shades. Keep things simple, separate and color-coded. Add variety and distinction to each siblings area by incorporating brightly colored storage bins and laundry hampers. Bed linens are another great focal point for individual tastes. Think floral and plaids or stripes and solids. Reversible bed coverings are also ideal in shared rooms. Consider stackable storage cubes that not only divide the space but also serve as storage compartments for each child's belongings. When it comes to physically dividing the room, screens with hinged panels may be just the answer for siblings who have a real love/hate relationship. The hinges make folding and storing easy when your kids are having a good 'shared' 4 space day.
Ten Ways Fathers Model Healthy Relationships for Their Children By Steven Stosny, Ph.D.
Your children learn how men should behave in relationships by watching you. Even if you do not live with their mother, they are keenly aware of the way you interact with her. Most divorce and domestic violence happens to men and women who grew up without a father modeling healthy relationship behavior. Here are 10 tips to help you model the way you want your daughter to be treated in her adult relationships, and the way you want your son to treat the woman he loves.
1. Value their mother: Children value themselves and others more when they 5 feel that their mother and father value one another.
Ten Ways Fathers Model Healthy Relationships for Their Children (continued) By Steven Stosny, Ph.D. 2. Perspective-taking (seeing things through someone else's eyes): Show your children the importance of respecting the perspectives of people they love, even when they disagree with them. 3. Cooperation: Show how to participate willingly in work, problemsolving, or task-accomplishment. 4. Negotiation: Show your children how to work out solutions to problems that respect one another's perspectives. 5. Resourcefulness: Never stop trying to make things better. 6. Motivation to improve: Approach disagreements with the attitude of making them better, not worse. 7. Compassion: This gut-level reaction to your wife's pain, discomfort, or anxiety includes sympathy, protectiveness, and willingness to help but not control. It recognizes that your wife is different from you, with her own temperament, set of experiences, beliefs, values, and preferences. 8. Good will: Learning a positive attitude toward the people they love will greatly improve your children's chances of having good relationships. Think good thoughts about your wife, and always give her the benefit of a doubt. 9. Affection: Showing affection toward their mother makes children feel more secure. 10. Relationship investment: Successful relationships require that people care about and occasionally do nice things for one another. 6
Why Should Kids Get Allowances By Rachel Incoll
The question of whether allowances are right or wrong, is one that has been argued for many generations. Now it's your turn, as a parent, to decide whether or not an allowance is the best way to educate your child about financial responsibility. Through many years of working with parents and educators, here are some top reasons why children should kids get allowances. 1. They learn to be wise with how they spend their money. It may help to teach them how to prioritize their spending. 2. They learn how to save money. Having a regular amount of money, may make it easier for them to establish good saving habits, as a certain percentage of the money from each payment can be placed into a savings account/piggy bank. Without an allowance, any money they receive, may simply be spent, with nothing going to savings. 3. They learn how to donate their money. A certain percentage of their money can also be allocated to donations to the needy, hopefully encouraging your child to be more thoughtful of others, & not greedy with their money. 4. They will learn how to budget their money so it lasts between payments. Eventually, most children will learn to be careful how they spend what limited money they have, so they don't run out of money. This will only happen, if the parent doesn't give in to the initial whining for more money when the mistake is first made!
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IDEAS for MOM and Dad!!! 1. Plan a Picnic Whether you’re heading to a park or even just your backyard or fire escape, put down a blanket, get a spread of yummy snacks, a bottle of wine, and you’ve got yourself a lovely, low-cost date. 2. Go Birdwatching Sometimes the most romantic activities involve being outdoors together. Check if your favorite local park offers birdwatching tours, or just hang out in your backyard with binoculars. 3. Take a Brewery Tour Learn something and get beer in the process? This is pretty much a foolproof date. To find a tours, start by calling a microbrewery near you and go from there. 4. Take a Workout Class Take a spin class, a rowing class, or one of the myriad of trendy boutique workout classes that have popped up just about everywhere in recent years. Couples that sweat together, stay together. 5. Troll for Photobooths Spend an evening looking for photobooths, and taking fun photos together. The souvenirs from the evening are just a bonus. 6. Take a Boxing Class Together Not your typical date, get the endorphins flowing taking a boxing class together. 7. Visit a Museum and See Something Unexpected Going to a museum is a great date idea. Go see a controversial show, and the conversation will flow easily from there. 8. Head on a (Mini) Road Trip Pick a destination about an hour from where you live—it could be anything from a flea market to a restaurant off the beaten path—and 21 just drive.
Dads Are Not Just Helping, They Are Parenting Dads Are Not Just Helping, They Are Parenting. A father is someone who not only gives life, but educates with love, and takes full responsibility for his family.
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It is so common to hear the phrase “my partner helps me with the kids”, but think about it: Dads Are Not Just Helping, They Are Parenting. And those fathers who are involved will tell you it is the most rewarding experience. Why is it that we still thing that the responsibility of taking care of kids is only for women? A father who is involved in every single aspect of his children’s life is being rewarded with the most beautiful gift life can give him. 23
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Dads Are Not Just Helping, They Are Parenting continued… Your partner is not someone that makes your “work” a little bit easier from time to time. He is someone who knows how to be present, who loves, takes care, and takes responsibility for what gives a real meaning to his life: his family. Fathers who are not involved with their children are missing out big time! The father who wakes up at night, changes diapers, and gives baths, is not “helping” the mother, he is experiencing the most wonderful part of his life: he is experiencing his paternity. He is being rewarded with unconditional love and many memorable life experiences.
A father is someone who teaches, who listens to concerns; and even plays when he is tired after a full day at work. A real dad also cries when their kids are giving him a hard time. Only a father who is involved will understand that being a parent is the most difficult and challenging job in the world. Did you know that if a man plays a primary role in taking care of his baby, he experiences the same neurological changes that women do when they become mothers? “A new study, suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain—even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women. The research implies that the neural underpinnings of the so-called maternal instinct aren’t unique to women, or activated solely by hormones, but can be developed by anyone who chooses to be a parent.” 25
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