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Nose Picking In Public a Habit To Break

Dr. Lewis First is chief of pediatrics at Vermont Children’s Hospital and offers down-to-earth advice for parents about how to stop children from picking their noses in public. The nose picking habit – tough to break.

A Good Book is Like A Secret Door

The intro to “Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem“ is merely the tip of Mac’s iceberg: he lectures and he writes books children can get lost in reading. He used to run a free tutoring center for kids in the back of a pirate supply store but now runs the same in a time travel emporium.

The inimitable Mssr. Barnett seems to have a tiny bit of a problem with boundaries – the ones between wishes and reality. Watch how he explains himself in this TED talk describing why a good book is like a secret door, how writing should escape the page, that art is a doorway to wonder… and see if you can spot his plan to send excess Blue Whales to willing kids.

Parenting: An Astronauts Guide To Optimism

Chris Hadfield, an astronaut who recently spoke at a TED conference about “What I learned from going blind in space” tells us in this short video what his New Year’s resolution is for 2015.

Parenting: Loss and Grief – My Velveteen Rabbit →

The Velveteen Rabbit

The internet is a bizarre place where you can have so many “contacts” with people that you consider them “friends” without ever meeting them. Different generations may learn more levels of relationships; mine, calls someone a friend when I begin caring about them, share feelings and become willing to assist when able.

Remy Sharp has taught me about web development for many years although he resides across an ocean and we’ve never met. His personal blog recently revealed a “parenting” experience which many of us understand all too well. Dealing with loss and grief is, unfortunately, an all too frequent aspect of parenting. He’s given me permission to share with you if you’d like to read on…

The Simple Power of Hand Washing

Myriam Sidibe is a warrior in the fight against childhood disease. Her weapon of choice? A bar of soap and hand washing. For cost-effective prevention against sickness, it’s hard to beat soapy hand washing, which cuts down risk of pneumonia, diarrhea, cholera and worse. Sidibe, a public-health expert, makes a smart case for public-private partnerships to promote clean hands — and local, sustainable entrepreneurship.

A parent may choose to supplement this video with a children’s book called Wash Your Hands; or, for older children, Germs Are Not For Sharing; or, possibly, even reminder stickers.

Parenting Advice to Ignore Series: Intro/Index

parenting advice you can ignore - boy driving on father's lap

Once you’ve got that bundle of joy in your arms, the next thing you may notice is the nearly overwhelming plethora of people who, knowingly or not, want to give you parenting advice about how you should care for it.

Of course, you expect advice and comment from pretty much everyone related to your addition; but advice probably will seem to come out of everywhere! And, if the internet is to be believed, you’ve most likely already screwed this kid up for good… UNLESS you send in $100 for their elixir or salve or book or blanket or crib or… or, or, or!

Honestly, there are some advice you can respectively listen to but then discard. I’ve written about several… but it took several posts to do it.

4 Posts in "Parenting Advice" Series

  • Parenting Adivce to Ignore: Intro/Index – 8 May 2014
    There is parenting advice and there is parenting advice. New parents, especially first-time parents, find that there are more than enough "experts" willing to offer advice about how you "should" do this and that raising your children. Especially you "generation Z" parents, who routinely trust internet more than people, should be pretty circumspect about who you listen to. Here are some examples of advice, that you may want to take with more than a grain of salt.

  • Part 1 - Internet - Crying – 10 May 2014
    Parenting advice, it comes from everywhere. If you listened to everyone and tried to follow everything you could well be institutionalized within the week. Pretty much EVERYTHING on the internet comes with an "agenda" which is RARELY (Ok, pretty much never) totally in your best interest. Are you safe to ignore it?

  • Part 2 - Babysitter - Saying "no" – 22 May 2014
    If you thought that you got a lot of parenting advice from people BEFORE the baby was born, just wait and see how many "well wishers" make contact with you after the little one arrives. This part TWO covers a bit more of advice you can ignore.

  • Part 3 - Soft spot - crying – 3 Jun 2014
    Parenting advice – something that we all probably need at one time or another; but, something that is awfully easy to get tired of. Here is some more "stuff not to stress about."


If you want more information about parenting advice, I’ve written several posts you can use the search box to find on this site; AND, there is a whole series of guest posts by Dr. Greg Barrett.

Discipline in a Non-Confrontational Parent →

[This site is one of those “blogspot” sites which is still there (including my referenced page) but is no longer actively added too – which thing makes me sorry for you… Alas, her last post was in 2019… You really should have seen it in its day!]

 
How does a non-confrontational parent discipline her boys? Click on the link above or below to give it a read; and see one mother’s experience trying to raise a “tribe” of four boys—especially as they turn into teenagers.

[http://tovskytwins.blogspot.com/2009/12/disciplinarian.html]

Discipline Series: Intro/Index

Discipline, Juvenile justice, boy behind bars

Of all the aspects of parenting, discipline holds the most fear in the hearts of parents. Some of that may be due to a misunderstanding of the difference between discipline and punishment, some due to an unclear understanding of the role of “parent, and some due to a lack of role model.

Or, it could be any one of a million different issues (perhaps I do exaggerate just a bit.)

This short series only considers the one aspect and began when I found a post by another author entitled “discipline in a non-confrontational parent”; a schizophrenic concept if ever I heard one. I just had to read it.

4 Posts in "Discipline" Series

  • Discipline Series: Intro/Index – 1 Jan 2014
    Of all the parts of parenting, discipline is the single most unpleasant and difficult. This series contains posts which are strictly about discipline, it's why and how.

  • Discipline in a Non-Confrontational Parent (link) – 3 Jan 2014
    I found a web post about being a "non-confrontational" parent and discipline. The two concepts are so... so... oddly disparate it almost seems schizophrenic. I found the post interesting enough to recommend the read. She's stopped posting now; but, the post is still there.

  • Parenting: Discipline – 7 Dec 2017
    Discipline isn't easy as a parent. Teaching about it isn't easy as a doctor. And, writing about it, isn't easy as a columnist either. Every circumstance is different and every child is different; but we've learned a lot of lessons over the years about how to make it easy(er) on everyone concerned. Here are several.

  • Discipline and Natural Consequences – 3 Feb 2018
    A colleague of mine, Dr. Greg Barrett, has written quite a bit about discipline and I have too. We have similar philosophies but what would it look like if we should share a case together and discuss our approaches. Would we agree? Would there be things you could learn from our discussion? Let's see!


If you’d like to read about other parenting issues, I suggest you immerse yourself in the guest-post series by Dr. Greg Barrett which I’ve posted on this site rather than loose his well-spent efforts to a web-site-flipper camping on his abandoned site. AND, believe it or not, there’s some good parenting articles over on the “meditation” series.

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