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High Chair Training: It’s Called R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Even children at the “high chair age” can be taught to show RESPECT. Yes, Respect… Communicating their needs with respect. Eating with manners  – by not throwing food, continually dropping their sippy cup onto the floor over and over, watching you pick it up  time and time again, without realizing that YOU have  allowed HIM to train YOU. Wait?…

Kids Unloading the DIshwasher.. and the KNIVES?

I’ve been writing about TRAINING AHEAD – meaning training your child BEFORE they are expected to do something. This involves YOU teaching them by talking in a calm adult voice (not baby-talk), at their eye level, with clear communication, and letting THEM HOLD whatever ITEM there is so that they are DOING whatever thing you are…

Snapshot: The FRUIT of Your Training

I’ve been sharing photos from the past, showing you HOW we TRAINED AHEAD when the kids were YOUNG. (if your kids are not so “young” right now, it’s NOT too late..start now.) Would you like to see the FRUIT of  TRAINING? . I hope this gives you a VISION of what YOUR children can do. Stay true to…

Teaching Tip: Student Should Hold the Item

Seems like I’ve been talking a lot about KNIVES lately. So, I might as well talk about this picture. It was taken at the same time as the photos from yesterday’s post. (see same outfit) We are all getting ready for a partay at our home – a party for the youth. When it’s over,…

Training Ahead: Keep the GOAL in Mind

When my oldest son John was two years old we were at a youth event at someone’s home. He spilled his drink on the floor  in the kitchen. It amazed me that he quietly reached for a towel and cleaned up the mess all on his own. He’d been TRAINED AHEAD on how to handle…

Scripture Memory – Put to Creative Tunes

Circa 2000. John, Alexis, and Kelsey. Something that I started doing when the children were wee little thangs… was to memorize Scripture.. put to our OWN tunes.. while trying to laugh along the way… making it a fun experience and memory. The picture above shows a little of what it was like. We’d memorize a…

Teaching Tip for Gettin’ ‘Em Independent

I came across a few pictures that illustrate an important teaching tip that makes mentoring our kids MUCH more EFFECTIVE and INDEPENDENT. Teaching tip: Don’t Block Their View. Make sure you are in a position where you are not blocking their view of the very thing you are trying to teach them. I see this…