Do You Make These Parenting Mistakes?

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Parenting boys includes a lot of this…

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5 Tips To Being a Grandparent

With the holidays approaching, the AFP Grandparents are back with some important advice for grandparents everywhere.” via 5 Tips To Being a Grandparent.

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The time has come to forgive your parents…

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Blogging from my parents’ patio…

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Too nice not to sit outside!

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today

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Parenting Fails: Wine-y Child

Out of the mouths of babes! Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures via Parenting Fails: Wine-y Child.

The Way of the Peaceful Parent

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Leo Babauta shares this today…

There is no such thing as stress-free parenting.

A reader requested that I share my thoughts on stress-free parenting, as the father of six kids. And while I have learned a lot about being a dad, and finding joy in parenthood, I also know that stress-free parenting is a myth.

Parents will always have stress: we not only have to deal with tantrums and scraped knees and refusing to eat anything you cook, but we worry about potential accidents, whether we are ruining our kids, whether our children will find happiness as adults and be able to provide for themselves and find love.

That said, I’ve learned that we can find peace.

Peace isn’t a place with no stress, but a place where you take the stress as it comes, in stride, and don’t let it rule you. You let it flow through you, and then smile, and breathe, and give your child a hug.

There is a Way of the Peaceful Parent, but it isn’t one that I’ve learned completely. I’ll share what I’ve learned so far, with the caveat that I don’t always follow the Way, that I still make mistakes daily, that I still have a lot to learn, that I don’t claim to have all the answers as a parent.

Source: » The Way of the Peaceful Parent :zenhabits

Go to the source if you’d like to hear his way…

Sorry for being so goofy lately, but after speaking on ‘Facebook for Fun and Profit’ for ‘Link Greater Green Bay‘ on Wednesday, I couldn’t pass this one up… 

Your Parents Owe You Nothing

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Your parents owe you nothing.

They have already given you everything…

Life itself.

When you stop making them responsible for what you feel today, you access your power to really live.

Your parents OWE you nothing today. They gave you the most amazing gift of birth and life. They don’t OWE you respect, apologies, or money. When you can own this you free yourself and are no longer dependent on them for your happiness. Instead of living at the mercy of your past and simply being a reaction to your parents’ actions, you cut the umbilical cord and become free to create a life you choose.

Each moment you hold onto resentment, anger, blame, about the past, you are killing your present. What happened is done and nothing you do, or say now will change what happened. It is done.

Often we refuse to let go, and hold onto the anger at our parents because we feel dignified in doing so. They didn’t give us what we wanted. They weren’t there for us in the way we needed. They abused us, beat us, abandoned us, manipulated us, molested us, or were mean to us.

Yes, you are right. They were not right or justified in what they did.

However: “Do you want to be right or free?”

“Is being right making you happy? Is holding onto being right changing them?”

Each moment you hold onto the resentment, you keep yourself stuck in a prison of victimhood. You are not responsible for what happened to you as a child. It happened. You were young back then.

But now, today, you are responsible for what you choose to do.

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Your parents are on Facebook, Friend ‘em or not?

Built in parental control in Windows XP

The Future of Social Media Parenting

How to Assign Household Chores: Parenting Tips

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Do you struggle with this as much as we do? What has worked for you?

Segway company owner dies in apparent Segway accident

The owner of the Segway company has died, apparently in an accident involving one of his upright two-wheeled vehicles, police in England said Monday.

The body of James Heselden, 62, was pulled from the River Wharfe in northern England on Sunday, police said.

A Segway-type vehicle was recovered from the river, police said.

The incident is not thought to be suspicious, police said.

Heselden’s family said in a statement that “there is absolutely nothing to suggest it was anything other than a tragic accident.

Parenting Fail

6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

LOL — what a great post! I’ve always said that social media is a monster that needs to be fed but Tamara Weinberg does a better job here…

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