Image Credit: © Donnie Ray Jones | Elsa's Getting Mad | CC by 2.0 It’s a startling thing to see this whole parenting thing – specifically, your whole parenting thing – from the perspective of the kids you’re parenting. Kids are sponges, I know, but it turns out, their innate talent for picking up on your curse word slip (whoops) is the least of it. Our oldest son is eight, and our oldest daughter is six. And we are dealing with all kinds of attitude these days. I’m hip to the testing … [Read more...]
The Right Way to Ask Kids Questions – Three Tips for Parents
Talking to your kids - who knew it would be this tough, this early?! I want so badly to build a relationship where they'll come to me with the hard stuff. But how do I do that when some days even getting what they did at recess out of them is a battle? Today, one of MPMK's former contributor's, Kim (who also happens to be a speech-language pathologist), is going to share with us the best ways to ask our kids questions. Didn't know there was a right way? Well there definitely is - it's the … [Read more...]