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		<title>Teaching kid to wait</title>
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Teaching kid to wait

We live in a &#8220;need it now&#8221; society. Commercials tell us that we deserve things and that we owe it to ourselves to give ourselves things. They urge us to get the latest-the greatest- and the most desired objects. How could our lives be complete without them? We have fast food, 24 [...]]]></description>
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<p>We live in a &#8220;need it now&#8221; society. Commercials tell us that we deserve things and that we owe it to ourselves to give ourselves things. They urge us to get the latest-the greatest- and the most desired objects. How could our lives be complete without them? We have fast food, 24 hr pharmacies, no credit for however long (if you buy now), cell phones where you can get in touch with someone anytime, anywhere, and the Internet &#8211; so you never have to wait to get the information you need.</p>
<p>When you live with this kind of mentality and in this kind of society, it&#8217;s easy to see why we learn to live a lifestyle that is impatient. We don&#8217;t really know how to deny ourselves things, for the most part.</p>
<p>For those of us who keep one foot in the &#8220;slower-days-of-simpler-living&#8221; kind of lifestyle while keeping the other foot in pace with the trends of today, it can be both a struggle and a blessing to know the differences of these two worlds. While struggling against getting caught up in the busy, fast-paced, stressful way of living, it is a blessing to be able to tap into that part of yourself that knows how to work hard for something, and to be patient while waiting for your dreams and goals to be realized. It&#8217;s an internal payoff and reward that a &#8220;get-it-now&#8221; mentality can&#8217;t touch.</p>
<p>Children who have learned how to be patient and to wait for things in their lives tend to be happier and more content because they know the worth in receiving those blessings. They don&#8217;t just take them for granted or expect them. They also tend to be more generous because they have developed a compassionate and empathetic heart just by going through the process of being denied things immediately in their life. They don&#8217;t feel empty inside because there is a sense of worth being built into who they are.</p>
<p>We can get into the rut of wanting to give our children the whole world. Yet the whole world isn&#8217;t really what they need. They need to learn valuable lessons and the rich rewards that come with working hard for something. They need to learn to wait. We will help mold some individuals who feel complete and who have &#8220;substance&#8221; to them, if we can simply teach them at times, that waiting is necessary in life.</p>
<p>As a parent, I think it&#8217;s very important to pass this lesson on to your children. Teach them the value in waiting and in wanting. It is one of the best things you could ever do for them. Some day, they will thank you for it.</p>
<p>Dionna Sanchez is the Founder of EmphasisOnMoms.com and freelance writer. She maintains her own personal blog at <a id="link_89" target="_new" href="http://emphasisonmoms.blogspot.com/">http://emphasisonmoms.blogspot.com</a> as well as one on traditions at <a id="link_90" target="_new" href="http://alastingfoundation.blogspot.com/">http://alastingfoundation.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>You can contact Dionna at <a id="link_91" href="mailto:madetomom@yahoo.com">madetomom@yahoo.com</a></p>
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		<title>Workout with the kids</title>
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Workout with the kids

Many fathers live a well-rounded healthy lifestyle with regular workouts that involve their kids. First-time dads who think a new baby will interfere with their exercise schedule need not sacrifice their workouts but do need to supplement their parenting skills to include exercising with their kids. The trick here is to come [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many fathers live a well-rounded healthy lifestyle with regular workouts that involve their kids. First-time dads who think a new baby will interfere with their exercise schedule need not sacrifice their workouts but do need to supplement their parenting skills to include exercising with their kids. The trick here is to come up with kid-friendly routines. These routines are equally rewarding and also help in establishing healthy habits among children.</p>
<p>In an interview to the Associated Press, Heidi Hill, author of Fit Family: The Infant, Toddler and Preschool Years (Vitesse, 2008) explains how parents can hike, bike, run, and even kayak with their kids. Heidi and her husband, Tom have put this into practice by trying out many of these sports with their two daughters, aged 3 and 5 each. &#8221;At the get-go, a lot of it can be miserable. You really have to persevere and know that you&#8217;re teaching a lifestyle.&#8221;, says Hill.</p>
<p>In the beginning, dads could try to fast walk with a jog stroller or jog alongside their kids as they bike. The key lies in using the right equipment that is not too clunky. A trail-a-bike is a one-wheel option that can be attached to the back of dad&#8217;s bike.</p>
<p>Workouts are a great way for dads to bond with their kids. As kids grow older, the positive effects of having family workouts increases exponentially. Dads need to listen to some good parenting advice by self-educating themselves and planning the workout in advance to make the experience fun for the entire family.</p>
<p>Paul Banas is a founder of GreatDad.com. He writes articles on <a id="link_79" target="_new" href="http://www.greatdad.com/">parenting</a>, parenting skills, pregnancy and dads, parenting tips, baby names, <a id="link_80" target="_new" href="http://www.greatdad.com/tertiary/30/2892/top-4-tips-on-setting-up-a-baby-room.html">baby rooms</a> and many more topics related to dads.</p>
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		<title>New baby? Don&#8217;t forget your partner.</title>
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New baby? Don&#8217;t forget your partner.

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<p>Many times parents are concerned about their relationship when a new child enters into this world. It can be especially challenging for new parents to know what to do and how to do it when there is a new life brought into the relationship when there was once only two people.</p>
<p>It is common for either the new father or new mother to feel left out or &#8220;unattended&#8221; when new children come into the relationship. This set up becomes unhealthy for the couples when they begin to fight several times a day because of the new setup.</p>
<p>Here are some strategies to handle the new set up with the baby being a part of the relationship.</p>
<p>When you are co-parenting with your spouse it is extremely important that you put that relationship first. When you have children together you must remember that you were first husband and wife (or boyfriend or girlfriend) before you were mom and dad. Too often children become a part of the family and wind up taking over all physical and emotional time and attention.</p>
<p>It is important for fathers to understand that your wife will be obsessed with the baby for the first year or so. It is important for fathers to be aware of this shift and attempt not to take it personal. You will feel left out; however your wife still loves and cares for you even though it doesn&#8217;t feel that way as you watch her constantly worry, think about, and only talk about the baby.</p>
<p>It is important for mothers to understand that the baby has many needs, however your husband still needs your time and attention. Make sure you schedule in time and reserve some energy to nurture the relationship with you and your husband. Sometimes you may have to schedule a date night or alone time once a week.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the first year or two will be a time of major transition for a couple when a child is born. What was once a partnership involving two is now &#8216;living for three&#8221;. Be patient with yourself and with your spouse as you go through the new and exciting time in your life.</p>
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Be your kids rock

I live between a rock and a hard place and I love it! In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t live any other way and after I explain what I mean, I think you&#8217;ll say the same. Maybe, from what I just said, you think I live in a house on the side of a [...]]]></description>
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<p>I live between a rock and a hard place and I love it! In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t live any other way and after I explain what I mean, I think you&#8217;ll say the same. Maybe, from what I just said, you think I live in a house on the side of a high rocky mountain where I must constantly climb up and down a rocky road. Well, figuratively, yes, I do. We all do. You see, the house I live in is my body. My body, because it is alive and healthy, is always traveling through the daily hazards and hard places of the world out there and I love it that way and so should you.</p>
<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m not saying I enjoy things like suffering, struggle or turmoil and the other hard places of this life. I don&#8217;t. But my boss (Jesus) gives me orders and because I trust Him, I do what He says. Let me give you an example. In my printing business the other day, one of my customers said, after he gave me his order for 500 letterheads, &#8220;I really needed them yesterday!&#8221; Ha! That&#8217;s the story of my life. It&#8217;s been related that, the day I was born, my Dad looked at me and said, &#8220;Where have you been? I needed you yesterday! So you see, I&#8217;ve been running to catch up ever since! It seems there is always an urgent need (a hard place) whose deadline was always: yesterday. Do you find it that way? I do, in fact&#8230;I love it that way, and so should you.</p>
<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve made a discovery about hard places and suffering that I want to share with you. I used to consider hard places a burden. No more. I studied Jesus&#8217; life. Doesn&#8217;t He always absorb the shocks of life for you and me? When here on earth, wasn&#8217;t He always &#8220;between a rock and a hard place?&#8221; You bet he was. Didn&#8217;t He soften the blows for you and me? He sure did. How did He do it? He depended on God, His Father, to be His rock, the One He held onto through everything. I&#8217;m sure He often said to His Father:</p>
<p>&#8220;Dad, I love You because You&#8217;re dependable. You&#8217;re My Rock!&#8221;</p>
<p>In short, we need to tell our children that Jesus is the Rock between us and the hard places in this life. Or, to say it in a more modern, up-to-date way, we must love and trust Jesus because He is the &#8220;shock absorber&#8221; between us and what, without Him, would be the unbearably &#8211; hard places &#8211; of our daily lives.</p>
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I live between a rock and a hard place and I love it! In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t live any other way and after I explain what I mean, I think you&#8217;ll say the same. Maybe, from what I just said, you think I live in a house on [...]]]></description>
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<p>I live between a rock and a hard place and I love it! In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t live any other way and after I explain what I mean, I think you&#8217;ll say the same. Maybe, from what I just said, you think I live in a house on the side of a high rocky mountain where I must constantly climb up and down a rocky road. Well, figuratively, yes, I do. We all do. You see, the house I live in is my body. My body, because it is alive and healthy, is always traveling through the daily hazards and hard places of the world out there and I love it that way and so should you.</p>
<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m not saying I enjoy things like suffering, struggle or turmoil and the other hard places of this life. I don&#8217;t. But my boss (Jesus) gives me orders and because I trust Him, I do what He says. Let me give you an example. In my printing business the other day, one of my customers said, after he gave me his order for 500 letterheads, &#8220;I really needed them yesterday!&#8221; Ha! That&#8217;s the story of my life. It&#8217;s been related that, the day I was born, my Dad looked at me and said, &#8220;Where have you been? I needed you yesterday! So you see, I&#8217;ve been running to catch up ever since! It seems there is always an urgent need (a hard place) whose deadline was always: yesterday. Do you find it that way? I do, in fact&#8230;I love it that way, and so should you.</p>
<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve made a discovery about hard places and suffering that I want to share with you. I used to consider hard places a burden. No more. I studied Jesus&#8217; life. Doesn&#8217;t He always absorb the shocks of life for you and me? When here on earth, wasn&#8217;t He always &#8220;between a rock and a hard place?&#8221; You bet he was. Didn&#8217;t He soften the blows for you and me? He sure did. How did He do it? He depended on God, His Father, to be His rock, the One He held onto through everything. I&#8217;m sure He often said to His Father:</p>
<p>&#8220;Dad, I love You because You&#8217;re dependable. You&#8217;re My Rock!&#8221;</p>
<p>In short, we need to tell our children that Jesus is the Rock between us and the hard places in this life. Or, to say it in a more modern, up-to-date way, we must love and trust Jesus because He is the &#8220;shock absorber&#8221; between us and what, without Him, would be the unbearably &#8211; hard places &#8211; of our daily lives.</p>
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 Ez-92-88.2-3.9</p>
<p>Terry Weber is a retired advertising/direct mail sales letter copywriter and inventor of several useful items. Terry and his wife Doris are Habitat For Humanity, RV Care-A- Vanners who, for the past eight years have volunteered to help build more than 39 houses all over the USA. They travel to and from the 2- week long builds in their RV. The money they make on their: <a id="link_90" target="_new" href="http://www.originalsbyweber.com/">http://www.originalsbyweber.com</a> website  helps them pay their expenses to and from those volunteer Habitat builds.</p>
<p>P.S. Due to the high cost of gasoline and some health problems, we can no longer drive the RV to Habitat builds. The RV is parked until health improves and gasoline prices come down.</p>
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First five years of being a parent

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<p>Providing the child the most optimal environment for developing his foundation for life can be a daunting period. You will not succeed. You will face obstacles seemingly out of your control, violence on TV as well as overwhelming propaganda, the limiting factor of the school system, the child and their piers and your short comings just to name a few.</p>
<p>One thing for sure is the best thing you can equip the child with for living life is for them to get that the measurement of success in life is in the amount of joy experienced. That is the condition the parents can influence their family to pursue. This is the greatest gift that can be instilled in children by any adult.</p>
<p>It is critical in my view that children have the self confidence that is strong enough to overcome the oftentimes brutal effects the institution of forced schooling can have on the child. The range of quality schools varies tremendously and generally speaking there are but a few that are enlightened enough to provide the kind of environment we are discussing here. Compulsitory schooling by nature is limiting not expansive. If a child leaves school with a sense of himself displaying all the confidence and enthusiasm for a satisfying and fulfilling life, the experience was worthwhile. This article isn&#8217;t about schools however; it is about providing some insight into the necessity of putting and keeping in place for the first five years of a child life the primary conditions for successful living.</p>
<p>You can not hide your child from all the elements of life that will be encountered, because that is part of life. Surprise will always be there. But you can assist a child in understanding the principles that can enable them to face any experience in a way that leaves them stronger in their sense of who they are, not less. You will make mistakes no matter what you do. And the advice you would give your child when they make a mistake in life will be by the way you handle the mistakes you make with them. For they learn by example. Children learn how &#8216;be&#8217; by their observation of how others are being, especially their parents. How you &#8216;be&#8217; matters more than you know.</p>
<p>Remember this, the body is a multi-sensory organism, and even as an infant, it is interpreting of over 400 billion pieces of data per second. That is difficult to comprehend. Based on the conclusions it has made to date, its beliefs and assumptions about life, the brain then is processing one hundred thousand chemicals sending them to the cells of the body. The point is you are incapable of fooling the child in terms of what it is reading in your behavior around them. If you are being inauthentic they will know. Even if they are not capable of reading you intellectually, they will read you emotionally. If the child learns that seeking happiness is the greatest pursuit, they will have learned it because they observed that you lived your life that way.</p>
<p>Okay, here is the good news. If our aim is to be joyful in life, we will have taught our children the most important and fundamental purpose of life. The natural unfolding will be the continuing discovery of what works to have a great life. The child and parent will discover along the way, everything that is necessary to live a life that allows all their dreams to come to pass. Happiness and joy is a state or condition in which freedom, no resistance, and love reign. It obeys the law of attraction as an absolute. It abides by the teaching, &#8216;do unto others as you would have them to undo you&#8217;, but never at the expense of your own happiness in life.</p>
<p>Long before I had my children I remember saying I wasn&#8217;t going to raise my mine the way I was raised. Matter of fact I&#8217;ve heard quite a few parents utter those words. Age has made me wiser. And for the most part I didn&#8217;t, but that didn&#8217;t mean that the influence of my own childhood didn&#8217;t somehow shape the father I became. No matter how your childhood was for you, it affords you the insight on how you&#8217;ll choose to be when you embark on the adventure of parenthood. And of course if you are about to or if you are already raising your children, this is only the beginning. It can and should be the most enjoyable &#8216;adventure&#8217; of your life. It is kind of an adventure in that you only get to enjoy it as it unfolds. The best advice I could give parents in raising their children is to bring joy to every moment that you possibly can. It is in joy that the child creates the most optimal foundation of self love. Those first five years are so critical, it&#8217;s immeasurable.</p>
<p>Of course every year thereafter is critical as well but the child is the deliberate creator of his or her own story. And doing their next five years having become familiar with previous will be of great assistance. A low self esteem plays a difficult burden on the years in front of anyone. If you can be the best parent you can for the first 5 years, no doubt you will have trained yourself long enough to continue being that way. You are only teaching yourself really.</p>
<p>Just another note in this vast topic the most brilliant awareness information I have found for parenting is in the study of the law of attraction. Affirm the best in your child every time you can and find the best interpretations for the rest. Never emphasize apparent fault but look for aspects that work.</p>
<p>If you understand about the power of directing your emotions in a particular kind of way, I invite you to visit and learn about the iCap.</p>
<p><a id="link_101" target="_new" href="http://www.insightsforworkability.com/">http://www.insightsforworkability.com</a></p>
<p>Biofeedback has advanced beyond our imagination. You can discover and manage your emotions such as to seek and discover more joy and happiness than you can imagine. And because of the personal computer, the cost is affordable and the advances have been remarkably pleasing.</p>
<p>Stop by when you can.<br />
Leon Cautillo, Author/Instructor</p>
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Television Violence &#8211; deal with it

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<p>Television is so much a part of our lives we need to be concerned about its effect on our children. The problem is that violence in verbal and physical form appears on screen daily.</p>
<p>Do you know that there are <br />
a) 6 violent acts per hour on prime time television <br />
b) 6 violent acts per hour on children&#8217;s programs <br />
c) 50,000 TV commercials exposed to children per year?</p>
<p>Studies show that violence in media does have an impact on children and adolescent behavior. Daily viewing of television in childhood can lead to behavior and social problems.</p>
<p>What can you as parents do about this situation?</p>
<p>1. Monitor very closely what your children watch on TV. Even cartoons like Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers are filled with violent acts.</p>
<p>2. If possible, watch TV with your children and talk with them about what they have seen. Young children are often unable to separate reality from TV shows. Have a discussion with your child about what is real or not real on TV.</p>
<p>3. Encourage your children to look at ways TV characters handle problems. How do they resolve disagreements or issues? Do they use violence or verbal abuse? Are there different solutions other than violence?</p>
<p>4. If your older children have watched a PG rated movie with episodes of violence, ask them if the show or film would still be intact without the violent episodes. Does the violence enhance or detract from the film? This is one way you can help your children become savvy consumers of media.</p>
<p>5. Cartoons often have episodes of violence. We need to ensure that children are aware that there is a huge gulf between what happens in cartoons and what happens in real life. Help your children understand that risky actions (like jumping from a roof) would produce painful and dangerous consequences in real life. Watch your children&#8217;s reaction after watching certain cartoons. If they start acting out, that is a strong indication that those shows should be off limits until they are able to discern the difference between cartoon characters and real life.</p>
<p>6. Turn of the TV. Allow your children once in a while to watch approved movies without commercials or violence. The media beast can be tamed if we make television an occasional treat. There are plenty of alternatives available. How about creative play with puppets? Children can make their own shows with puppets and props. Reasonably priced and sturdy camcorders are also available for children to record their own shows.</p>
<p>Positive communication with our children can help them negotiate their way through a media world that is becoming treacherous and slippery.</p>
<p>Bianca Tora is a writer interested in the relationship between lifestyle and the brain, specifically the area of emotional regulation and control. She has published a book on anger management for children. Visit her at <a id="link_89" target="_new" href="http://www.help-your-child-with-anger.com/">http://www.help-your-child-with-anger.com</a></p>
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<p>Providing the child the most optimal environment for developing his foundation for life can be a daunting period. You will not succeed. You will face obstacles seemingly out of your control, violence on TV as well as overwhelming propaganda, the limiting factor of the school system, the child and their piers and your short comings just to name a few.</p>
<p>One thing for sure is the best thing you can equip the child with for living life is for them to get that the measurement of success in life is in the amount of joy experienced. That is the condition the parents can influence their family to pursue. This is the greatest gift that can be instilled in children by any adult.</p>
<p>It is critical in my view that children have the self confidence that is strong enough to overcome the oftentimes brutal effects the institution of forced schooling can have on the child. The range of quality schools varies tremendously and generally speaking there are but a few that are enlightened enough to provide the kind of environment we are discussing here. Compulsitory schooling by nature is limiting not expansive. If a child leaves school with a sense of himself displaying all the confidence and enthusiasm for a satisfying and fulfilling life, the experience was worthwhile. This article isn&#8217;t about schools however; it is about providing some insight into the necessity of putting and keeping in place for the first five years of a child life the primary conditions for successful living.</p>
<p>You can not hide your child from all the elements of life that will be encountered, because that is part of life. Surprise will always be there. But you can assist a child in understanding the principles that can enable them to face any experience in a way that leaves them stronger in their sense of who they are, not less. You will make mistakes no matter what you do. And the advice you would give your child when they make a mistake in life will be by the way you handle the mistakes you make with them. For they learn by example. Children learn how &#8216;be&#8217; by their observation of how others are being, especially their parents. How you &#8216;be&#8217; matters more than you know.</p>
<p>Remember this, the body is a multi-sensory organism, and even as an infant, it is interpreting of over 400 billion pieces of data per second. That is difficult to comprehend. Based on the conclusions it has made to date, its beliefs and assumptions about life, the brain then is processing one hundred thousand chemicals sending them to the cells of the body. The point is you are incapable of fooling the child in terms of what it is reading in your behavior around them. If you are being inauthentic they will know. Even if they are not capable of reading you intellectually, they will read you emotionally. If the child learns that seeking happiness is the greatest pursuit, they will have learned it because they observed that you lived your life that way.</p>
<p>Okay, here is the good news. If our aim is to be joyful in life, we will have taught our children the most important and fundamental purpose of life. The natural unfolding will be the continuing discovery of what works to have a great life. The child and parent will discover along the way, everything that is necessary to live a life that allows all their dreams to come to pass. Happiness and joy is a state or condition in which freedom, no resistance, and love reign. It obeys the law of attraction as an absolute. It abides by the teaching, &#8216;do unto others as you would have them to undo you&#8217;, but never at the expense of your own happiness in life.</p>
<p>Long before I had my children I remember saying I wasn&#8217;t going to raise my mine the way I was raised. Matter of fact I&#8217;ve heard quite a few parents utter those words. Age has made me wiser. And for the most part I didn&#8217;t, but that didn&#8217;t mean that the influence of my own childhood didn&#8217;t somehow shape the father I became. No matter how your childhood was for you, it affords you the insight on how you&#8217;ll choose to be when you embark on the adventure of parenthood. And of course if you are about to or if you are already raising your children, this is only the beginning. It can and should be the most enjoyable &#8216;adventure&#8217; of your life. It is kind of an adventure in that you only get to enjoy it as it unfolds. The best advice I could give parents in raising their children is to bring joy to every moment that you possibly can. It is in joy that the child creates the most optimal foundation of self love. Those first five years are so critical, it&#8217;s immeasurable.</p>
<p>Of course every year thereafter is critical as well but the child is the deliberate creator of his or her own story. And doing their next five years having become familiar with previous will be of great assistance. A low self esteem plays a difficult burden on the years in front of anyone. If you can be the best parent you can for the first 5 years, no doubt you will have trained yourself long enough to continue being that way. You are only teaching yourself really.</p>
<p>Just another note in this vast topic the most brilliant awareness information I have found for parenting is in the study of the law of attraction. Affirm the best in your child every time you can and find the best interpretations for the rest. Never emphasize apparent fault but look for aspects that work.</p>
<p>If you understand about the power of directing your emotions in a particular kind of way, I invite you to visit and learn about the iCap.</p>
<p><a id="link_101" target="_new" href="http://www.insightsforworkability.com/">http://www.insightsforworkability.com</a></p>
<p>Biofeedback has advanced beyond our imagination. You can discover and manage your emotions such as to seek and discover more joy and happiness than you can imagine. And because of the personal computer, the cost is affordable and the advances have been remarkably pleasing.</p>
<p>Stop by when you can.<br />
Leon Cautillo, Author/Instructor</p>
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<p>When parents discuss how much media they allow their children, the answers vary wildly. Some parents have very strict time restrictions on their children&#8217;s media viewing while others give their children more control over the time they spend on media.</p>
<p><strong>How do you know when your child is getting too much media? </strong></p>
<p>One mom knew she needed to allow less video game time when her 7-year-old son started not wanting play outside or do things with the family preferring his video game instead. He was so attached to playing his video game that he often pitched a fit when he was told the game had to go off. His games didn&#8217;t have a good way to save the game for later so he was reluctant to stop playing and lose his place in the game.</p>
<p>She decided to reduce his video game playing to one hour twice a week. She started giving him a 10 minute warning before his hour was up. When the 10 minutes were up, he could either choose to shut the game off or she would turn the power off. It only took a couple times of turning the power off to get him to shut the game down in time.</p>
<p><strong>What are signs that digital usage is becoming a problem? </strong></p>
<p>If your children are exhibiting these types of behaviors, it&#8217;s time to think about reducing the time they spend on media:</p>
<p>&bull;	Spending less and less time with family and friends <br />
&bull;	Difficulty focusing on the present moment due to craving video game or cellphone <br />
&bull;	Developing health issues such as Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, eye strain, weight gain, backaches <br />
&bull;	Withdrawing from sports, hobbies and social interactions <br />
&bull;	Losing sleep due to gaming, texting <br />
&bull;	Acting irritable or discontent when not using digital items <br />
&bull;	Declining grades in school, missing school <br />
&bull;	Talking and thinking obsessively about the digital activity <br />
&bull;	Denying or minimizing any negative consequences</p>
<p>If you feel your child is addicted to video games and will react extremely to having limits set, it is wise to seek help from a professional counselor or psychologist.</p>
<p><strong>What do the experts recommend? </strong></p>
<p>Hilarie Cash, psychotherapist and co-author of Video Games &#038; Your Kids, makes the following recommendations for personal screen time (computer, TV, video games). This time does not include computer time needed for homework.</p>
<p>&bull;	Under 2-years-old: no screen time <br />
&bull;	Preschool: 1 &#8211; 2 hours/day <br />
&bull;	Elementary: 2 hours/day  <br />
&bull;	Junior/Senior High: 2 &#8211; 3 hours/day</p>
<p>She also recommends no TV, internet or gaming consoles in children&#8217;s rooms. The primary problem with having these devices in children&#8217;s bedrooms is that parents have more difficulty monitoring what&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p><strong>Won&#8217;t it be difficult to set limits? </strong></p>
<p>It can be very hard to set limits around digital entertainment. These digital devices keep our children content while we benefit from some free time. However, when we realize our children&#8217;s media usage is having a negative impact on them, we need to set some limits despite our children&#8217;s protesting.</p>
<p>With older children, it can help to explain why we&#8217;re concerned about the time they&#8217;re spending on digital entertainment. Engaging them in deciding what reasonable limits should be set may help them in sticking to those limits.</p>
<p>We may also need to change our own behavior so that we are modeling reasonable digital media usage. While this won&#8217;t be easy, it will provide the time to try other activities. Perhaps this will be the summer your family discovers how much fun it is to go biking together!</p>
<p>Kathy Slattengren is a noted parenting speaker, trainer and founder of Priceless Parenting. Priceless Parenting provides an <a id="link_93" target="_new" href="http://www.pricelessparenting.com/">online parenting class</a> which teaches effective discipline techniques for positively dealing with misbehavior.</p>
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		<title>Kids and the Case of the Missing Tree&#8217;s</title>
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Kids and the Case of the Missing Tree&#8217;s

Years ago, we walked a mile to school without batting an eye. Then we walked back home, stopping often at the park to play unattended, unsupervised. After all, it was a park and kids were supposed to play there.
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<h3>Kids and the Case of the Missing Tree&#8217;s</h3>
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<p>Years ago, we walked a mile to school without batting an eye. Then we walked back home, stopping often at the park to play unattended, unsupervised. After all, it was a park and kids were supposed to play there.</p>
<p>These were assumptions we took so placidly in those safer days before Madeleine McCann and Tori Stafford. The stories of these girls&#8217; terrible abductions remind us that the situation confronting parents and caregivers is totally different in this day and age. Our kids are driven to school in buses and cars. We would think twice about letting them walk home alone, unsupervised. Allowing them to play alone in the park or woods behind the house is unthinkable.</p>
<p>The result is that our children are growing up with less personal contact with the natural world. As Richard Louv says in his book Last Child Out of the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, &#8220;Today, kids are aware of the global threats to the environment&#8211;but their physical contact, their intimacy with nature, is fading.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Are We Depriving Our children of a Connection with Nature that is Essential for Positive Growth and Development?</strong></p>
<p>This is the question Louv asks in his book. He makes a strong case for the consequences our children will suffer when deprived of an intimate relationship with the natural world. He makes the case for the growing rise of ADHD, ADD and other behavior problems as a direct consequence of a lack of contact with nature in our children&#8217;s lives. Nature Deficit Disorder is showing up as hyperactivity and violence in our society.</p>
<p>He cites studies that show how exposure to natural settings (even for 20 minutes) increases the capacity for attention and focus in children. Students who take a 20 minute walk in the park perform better on tests of memory and attention. Other research studies show that children in public housing who have access to green space perform better emotionally and intellectually than those who do not have such access. Tests also show that just looking at nature can improve test scores.</p>
<p><strong>Investing in Children</strong></p>
<p>Louv insists that time with nature and in nature is an act of investing in our children&#8217;s health. It allows them to reconnect with a fundamental part of ourselves that is larger than life and allows them to appreciate the wisdom of cyclical and universal forces.</p>
<p>Take our child hiking as often as we can.</p>
<p>Replace part of our lawn with native plant. Maintain a bird bath.</p>
<p>Have a pebble hunting party in the park or beach.</p>
<p>Build something with the stones and pebbles collected.</p>
<p>Build a tree house or fort in the backyard.</p>
<p>Give our children a pet. It can teach them so much about natural wisdom.</p>
<p>Make a daily Green Hour part of the family tradition.</p>
<p>Bianca Tora is a writer interested in the relationship between lifestyle and the brain, specifically the area of emotional regulation and control. She has published a book on anger management for children. Visit her at <a id="link_89" target="_new" href="http://www.help-your-child-with-anger.com/">http://www.help-your-child-with-anger.com</a></p>
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