Helping Parents Succeed
Everything you want to know about raising happy, confident, healthy children.
My friend related her concern to me one day.
“I am so worked up getting ready in the morning,” as she told me recently.
She is a working mother and has a preschooler.
Every week day, she has to get herself ready for work and get her daughter ready for school.
Since this is what almost every working parent does, I was curious to find out the cause of her challenge as she only has one child as old as K.
What makes her so overworked? [Read more…]
Her father is diagnosed with cancer. And she is only 10 years old.
The doctor says her father only has about 6 months to live.
She’s worried what is going to happen when her father passes away.
In fact, what makes her worry is not her but her mother.
She is concerned about her mother who might be taking up extra responsibilities as single parent. Will she cope?
With all the worries that she has, she doesn’t know how to express to her mother.
She becomes quiet and short-tempered. [Read more…]
He is 18 and studies computer graphics in a college.
In the past two years, he has to do what he never did before: house chores.
Ever since he was born, he was taken care of by a live-in domestic maid.
Everything was done for him – from head to toes. [Read more…]
Olivia Manning from Liverpool has scored 162 in an IQ test – which the average is 100. The 12-year old school girl has been accepted into Mensa. It is reported that her score is 2 points better than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Woohoo! She is brainier than Einstein.
What a genius!
Here’s the thing: Every parent dreams of having a genius like Olivia born into the family.
Not for me. I’d rather let things go the way it’s supposed to be.
Let me explain. [Read more…]
If you want to teach children something, use stories.
Why do you think you have bedtime stories and unlimited stories aimed at children? And most stories end with: “The moral of the story is…”
Story telling is fun and most importantly it’s the most effective way of teaching. Children attracted to stories like bees to honey.
Instead of using cold hard facts (Yawn, yawn. Most kids have a hard time digesting facts), try using a story to tell your child about a lesson or value in life.
Also story telling can be used to explain abstract concepts to children.
Recently I use water as the metaphor to explain the importance of flexibility to J and K. [Read more…]