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What's Your Favourite....?

by: RiaD

Wed May 04, 2011 at 14:00:00 PM EDT

RiaD :: What's Your Favourite....?

Our girl comes up about once a month or so & visits for about a week. At first I thought it was because of my ill-health & her wanting to help me out & so the princess & i can have time together.
But sometime in the last few days it occurred to me she comes as much, maybe more(!) to get advice, to be told she's doing a fine job in raising the princess.
and I got to thinking about when I had little ones- how my mom & mrD's mom always gave me conflicting advice when & if they gave me any advice at all. and how mostly I felt all alone in trying to raise two little people to become intelligent, questioning, Good adults.
and how it takes a village to raise a child.

so.....

What's Your Favourite..... Advice for Raising Children???
what did others share with you that worked?
what "tricks" did you come up with yourself?

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What's Your Favourite....? | 4 comments

Well, the one that worked on me (13.67 / 3)

during the "picky eater" phase was: "You don't have to eat all of it, but you have to eat one bite of it." So I would ostentatiously eat the ONE bite (gha! canned stewed tomatoes! Still won't touch 'em!) and wash the horrible taste out of my mouth with subsequent bites of whatever I did like (in the case of stewed tomatoes, that would be mac & cheese).

I did grow up to have an adventurous palate, and it is probably partly b/c of the One Bite rule. It is probably also b/c by the time I got to high school I realized what terrible cooking I'd been exposed to, and set out to explore truly edible foods...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Wed May 04, 2011 at 22:28:02 PM UTC

I can give you the worst thing to do with a child who stutters - (12.67 / 3)

I was (well am) a single parent with a lot on my plate and my sweet son started stuttering - I guess because he sensed my tenseness - hell, I know he sensed it. One horrific day - when he stuttered a bit (about age 5) I screamed at him - stop stuttering gd it. Yes, I had a bad day at work and yes, I had no money but really - how awful is this! He never stuttered again. DO NOT DO THIS - IT IS WHAT A TERRIBLE MOTHER DOES. Oddly, he didn't stutter again.

To show you how sensitive babies are - when my son heard Greensleeves at about age 5 again at some kids' show, he started crying. I talked to him about it (nicely) and asked what was wrong. Tell me. He really couldn't. I spoke to a friend of mine who's dad was a psychiatrist and asked him to ask his dad. After all, I said, I used to walk him when he cried as an infant and sang this song to him.

He called me up and said - were you tense when you sang it. Well, yes - but I never showed the baby. He felt it strongly said my friend. This is how sensitive babies are. My God, it's a wonder he survived given my
craziness for the first 4 years or so.

SO COME TO ME IF YOU WANT TERRIBLE TIPS.

For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old.
W.B. Yeats

by: Xanthe @ Wed May 04, 2011 at 23:18:35 PM UTC

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roflmao (13.33 / 3)

You must have done something right! Kids are more sensitive than adults give them credit for...but also more resilient.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Thu May 05, 2011 at 02:56:24 AM UTC

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I think most (10.00 / 2)

of mine are of the DO NOT DO variety too.

Like the time when my kids aged 4 and 5, and I was watching my nephew aged 5 every day and the neighbors aged 3, and 4 three times a week. I don't remember what one of them had done but I lined them up sitting on the couch to try and find out who did it. I wasn't having any luck. Nobody was confessing or telling on the one who did it. So I had this great idea (sarcasm) of giving a cookie to the perpetrator if they confessed. Well Katie confessed and I knew dang well at the time that she hadn't done it, but she took one for the team and got a cookie to boot. LOL

by: Alma @ Thu May 05, 2011 at 14:57:20 PM UTC

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