Help for Parent

As parents, we are always interested to find out what other parents used "successfully" in their process of teaching and guiding their children. The following are some proven resources and tools created by parents themselves which are now being shared with other parents, thus reducing the headaches of figuring out what to do in some of these circumstances.

How to have Well Behaved children

Martha Stevens, a mother of five, believed that educating the heart is how good character qualities are developed. While schools concentrates on educating the brain, as parents, we should be educating the heart.

According to her, In the end, it's not GENIUS(the brain) but WISDOM(the heart) that wins out and makes our life fulfilling . One can grow up and be a super genius, but without the emotional balance and the steadiness that comes from an educated heart, one's life may not run as smoothly as one would like, and even wind up being wasted or wrecked.

Martha shows step by step how you can accomplish this using one hour a week, teaching skills such as emotional balance, responsibility, integrity, honesty, unselfishness, being hardworking, a pleasing personality, etc.

You can get all the details from her site raisingkid

How to Reduce Parenting Stress

Find out what a mother of four did to stop her children's quarelling and talking back. This mother came out with an innovative way to reduce the parents' stress level and getting the children to become more discipline by turning a WHEEL.

Named the Better Behavior Wheel, it is invented by Julie Butler and her family in central British Columbia. Whenever the child misbehave, he or she chooses his own consequences by spinning the wheel. Check out their website better-behavior for more details.

In addition to child discipline, some parents of ADHD children have even found the wheel to be a wonderful program, which is great news for many!

Use the Wheel and have ...
~ Well behaved kids.
~ Chores done on time.
~ No arguing.
~ Clothes picked up.
~ Homework completed.
In short, great kids and a stress free environment.

How to Entertain your Toddler

Do you run out of ideas on what activities you can do with your active toddler? Barb, a full time mother of five had compiled more than a hundred ways to entertain your toddler.

You will get amazing tips from where to take them, what activities would be fun for them to do daily, and what the best learning techniques for toddlers are. You can check out the activities here.

How to teach your children good values

Do you have difficulty conveying good moral values to your kids? It is no doubt easier to convey these messages via short stories which children can understand better as well as relate to. The stories our children hear will shape the adults they become.

Rather than watching her daughter play dress-ups, and build her own little stories around books they've read and TV shows she's watched, Daryl Grant, a mother of two went in search for bedtime stories that the kids would find fascinating, that they would want to read night after night, and that would teach good moral values. But she could't find any! There were plenty that taught basic values, like good and bad, but they were often so simplistic and predictable that the kids got bored before they were finished. There were plenty that entertained and captivated the kids, but had questionable values. But there was nothing that really fit the bill.

Hence, she asked a children's author to put together a special set of books for her children with the values she wanted portrayed. She has now put together a wonderful months-worth of stories which she is happy to share with other parents.

Do check out her set of inspirational kid stories that teaches values such as obedience, patience, respect, friendship, forgiveness and many others.