Breaking Your Kid’s Picky Eating Habits
Breaking Your Kid’s Picky Eating Habits
If your child’s dinner menu starts at crackers and ends at chicken nuggets, you might have a picky eater on your hands. Tell Me More’s parenting panel says that can be changed.
They say you can end the tyranny of the tears about food. You can enjoy those family meals instead of dreading them, even with those so-called picky eaters.
5 things I learned about raising boys (so far)
Today’s Read is from Lauren Knight, mother of 3 boys. She writes about 5 things she learned about raising boys.
She says having three little boys running around the house has been a dream — noisy, hilarious, heartwarming, and more fun than she ever could have imagined. But it’s also been trying at times.
I found #3 super practical!
If you want to discuss something serious, don’t just sit there, do something
In my years of counseling boys and girls in a school setting, a frustrating thing kept happening: while the girls easily opened up to me and could talk face-to-face in my office, the boys often clammed up and shut down. But as soon as we began doing something, for example, shooting baskets outside on the basketball court, or playing a card game in the office, the same boys miraculously opened up about anything and everything. The same goes for our sons. Sitting down to a face-to-face conversation can feel confrontational to a boy. If something serious needs to be discussed, try broaching the subject during a walk or a game he likes to play. You may be amazed at the ease of his words in between turns of a game of Horse.
Read the other 4 here:
How to Raise Successful Children
Today’s video is all about raising entrepreneurial, resourceful, ‘can-do kids’ who will survive and thrive in any workplace. Here are some tips from author Jennifer Prosek.
She encourages, optimism, resilience, resourcefulness, reframing failures, and plenty of time for free and unstructured play.
