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How Do You Tame a Difficult 4 Year Old?

A dad I know wrote on his blog last week about the difficulties he’s having with his 4 year old son. One example given is treating the family dog Lilly too roughly, and then throwing huge tantrums when put in time out. So, being the Nosy Nellie that only I can...

What is Your Ideal Parenting Picture? Part 2

Alrighty, everyone’s had some time to ponder the question.  Here’s what my ideal picture looks like: The boys all enjoy learning and we work together with positive attitudes to complete our lessons each day.  After lunch (since we finished all the work...

Love and Logic

Love and Logic – A general overview of my thoughts on this parenting approach. Okay, so I’ve mentioned the Love and Logic books in other posts, but I’ve never really sat down and discussed the method here on the blog.I’ll start by telling you...

The bucket story

Winter 2006 On Saturday The Manager(age 3) coughed so hard he gagged and threw up on 2 separate occasions. Small town life means no doctors on the weekend unless we go to the ER, so we decided to just survive till Monday and then call for the appt. Meanwhile, we tried...

Parenting Philosophies

I’ve been pondering deeply my approaches to parenting, and thought I’d share them with you. Let me start by saying that my way is NOT the be-all and end-all of parenting. Like I say in my tagline, I’m just doing my best to get the hang of this job....