Parenting with Empathy, LLC'Becoming a Love and Logic® Parent' – Facilitated by Jennifer Prince

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Encourage your child’s reading. This past summer my husband and I took our boys, ages 6 and 9, on an eight-hour car trip from Fairbanks, Alaska to Anchorage, Alaska. For most of the time our boys had their noses buried in various books; comic books, picture books, novels, puzzle books. Take time each day, (a wonderful way to bring a close to the day at bed time), and read a book together!

Routines
Setting up routines for after school, meal times, getting ready for school, and getting ready for bed will dramatically help improve your family time. Find out exactly how and so much more by signing up for a class! Take a look at what’s included by selecting here!

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NEWS BITS FROM HERE AND THERE
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From the September 20, 2009 Parade Magazine: An article titled “Early Exercise Pays Off” cites that the more active kids are when they are young, (five years old) the less body fat they’ll have later on (eleven years old). Five year olds who engaged in 60 minutes or more of activity had less body fat at age eleven, even if they did not sustain the 60 minutes of activity throughout those years. Early activity seems to create a protective bank against body fat.

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From an Associated Press article in The Oregonian, October 1, 2009: In “Not So Sweet–Study of British Kids Connects Candy with Crime,” researchers suggest “Children who eat too much candy may be more likely to be arrested for violent behavior as adults.” One of the paper’s authors, Simon Moore of the University of Cardiff said, “Parents who consistently bribe their children into good behavior with candies and chocolates could be doing harm. That might prevent kids from learning how to defer gratification, leading to impulsive behavior and violence.”

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From an Associated Press article “Teach Teens to Have an Attitude of Gratitude” in The Oregonian, November 17, 2009: In response to kids who are ungrateful and display a sense of entitlement, a social worker, family therapist and professor of psychology claim that parents share the blame in creating an entitled teenager. “Parents should require them to make genuine, meaningful contributions to the family and set consequences if they don’t.” Parents need to show their children “what it takes to make a household work or a society work.” Parents need to involve their children in the daily runnings of the house and family. “Parents used to teach kids to earn. Paper routes, shoveling snow – they did all those things to earn money to develop some type of work ethic. Now, instead of having them earn, they’ve been handed everything…Studies show that adolescents who report feeling gratitude