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Behavior Discipline: It’s All In The Follow Through

by: John Weyenberg
If you have ever played sports, then the term ‘follow through’ should be familiar. It generally refers to seeing the action a player is engaged in through to its conclusion. In baseball, a pitcher doesn’t just release the ball. He needs to follow through after the release of the ball to have optimal speed and placement of his pitch. A hitter doesn’t just swing at a ball. The hitter needs to follow through in order to have the best bat speed and the most power when he does hit the ball. A basketball player needs follow through when he shoots the ball to have the best accuracy and distance for his shot.

A parent needs to have follow through in order to have the best behavior discipline. It is not enough to simply warn your child not to engage in a certain type of behavior. A warning simply puts the child on notice. A parent must follow through with discipline when the said behavior continues. Allow me to illustrate this with an example of what I consider ‘bad practice’ and what I consider ‘good practice’ regarding this concept of follow through.

Bad practice: Let’s say that Joey has a toy plastic bat and starts to pound it on the side of the TV. His mother gives him a warning: “Stop doing that or you will get a time out.” Joey thinks for a minute and then starts to hit the TV with the bat again. This time the mother issues a similar warning: “I told you to stop that or you would get a time out.” She then proceeds to do whatever it was that she was doing and does not give Joey a time out. This ‘game’ that Joey is playing continues several more times before his mother gets up and takes the bat away. Joey did not receive the time out. Joey has learned that he can get away with a lot and that his mother will likely not follow through with her empty threats of discipline. If this is a pattern for the mother, then pushing the limits will indeed become a game for Joey and he will likely establish a pattern of poor behavior.

Good practice: Let’s use the same scenario. Joey hits the TV with the bat and his mother warns him that if he does it again, he will get a time out. Joey does it again. This mother then gets up and takes the bat away and places Joey in a time out in his room. In this example, the mother has demonstrated ‘follow through’. She issued a warning and on the next occurrence of the behavior (which amounted to outright defiance on Joey’s part), she places him in time out just like she said she would. Joey has learned that his mother is true to her word and that she will do what she says.

In terms of behavior discipline, consistent follow through by the parents will eliminate many types of misbehavior. The child will learn quickly that his or her parents mean what they say and that continued misbehavior is not worth the effort. This should be the aim of every parent and it is easy to accomplish with clear warnings and consistent follow through.

Lack of consistency in regards to ‘follow through’ not only makes your job as a parent a lot more difficult, it allows your child some license to misbehave more due to the lack of consequences. Think about it. If you were late to work everyday and your boss never said anything to you about it, then why would you alter your behavior. More than likely you would continue to be late to work everyday until someone said something or until there were consequences to your being late.

As a parent, you owe it to your child to follow through with the warnings that you give your child. Help them to learn that some behaviors are not okay and these behaviors will not be tolerated. Help them learn early that there are consequences to our behavior, both good and bad.

Teach Your Baby Math Easily And Don't Force Them!

by: Bernie William
When you teach your baby math you need to do it in a gentle way, and don't try to force them to learn. You might become so eager for them to learn that you start forcing the issue, and this will not help them learn at all. Give them the start they deserve, but nicely.

Every parents wants to be the best parent, you may have had the name for your baby picked out long before they were born, the nursery ready and just waited for them to get here so you could teach them and help them grow. That is great but slow down. You need to have the right motives if you want to teach your baby math. Make sure that you are thinking about the child and do not just want to get ahead of other peoples children.

Most of us did not get the chance to learn math when we were babies simply because this was not a common thing that was going on back then. Now days you see the commercials on the television and online but maybe you do not know if it is really happening or if it's just some nutty scam. Well I'll have to tell you that it's really possible to teach your baby math.

When you teach your baby important things like math at a young age you are going to be able to really take the pressure off of your child as they grow older. When they get to preschool or kindergarten they are really going to have a big learning platform to stand on and they will have things much easier since they are not going to have to concentrate as hard because of knowing the fundamentals.

Make sure that your baby is interested in learning and that you never force them or you could actually cause some set backs. You can begin teaching as early as 1 month old. This may seem a little young but really it is not young at all. You will be able to do this easily by just taking a few minutes a day with your child using some simple software that is quite inexpensive.

Keep a great attitude when you are teaching your baby and you are going to find that they pick up very quickly and enjoy the learning process and so will you.

Don't force the issue with them! Teach your baby math with a lot of love and kindness, and you will be putting them in the best position to learn and succeed.

Importance of Reading Aloud with Children

by: Sherrie Hardy

Finding the time to sit down and read aloud with our children is difficult. Evenings are often packed. We get home late from work or activities with the kids. We need to make dinner, help with homework and get our children to sleep. We deserve a little time to ourselves to do email, watch a favorite TV program or chat with our partner. However, by not sticking read aloud in to the family routine, we are missing out on an opportunity to facilitate our child’s life long literacy.

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in Reading is reading aloud to children.” U.S. Department of Education Commission on Reading

The benefits of reading aloud to our children are numerous. This role of parent as reader and story teller should begin at birth and end only when necessary. As your child grows, the read aloud changes to include different subjects, genres and time periods. Below is a short list highlighting ten advantages to reading aloud:

1. By setting time aside to read and talk about it with you child, you make your son or daughter feel very important and loved.

2. Reading to your child gives them the opportunity to see different lives, worlds, and choices. This provides chances to talk to your children about respect and tolerance.

3. Enjoying books with parents leads kids to be motivated to read books by themselves.

4. Stories are full of rich vocabulary. Hearing these words helps develop the child’s own vocabulary bank.

5. Written language is different than spoken language. It is helpful for kids to listen to both when developing their own language skills.

6. Reading stories aloud sparks questions and conversations about the plot, characters, or ending. These conversations lead to a deeper understanding of the text. This is what successful readers do themselves when reading silently. Read Aloud is an excellent opportunity to model these behaviors.

7. Listening to books and stories helps develop imagination.

8. Standardized tests almost always assess reading (directly or indirectly). Just by reading aloud, you are giving your child tools to perform better on those exams.

9. The ability to sustain listening for an extended period of time is practiced.

10. It is fun!

It is essential to find a time in your routine to include read aloud for children of all ages. Many people stick it in just before bed time. Others steal time after dinner. Find whatever works for you and your child. It is a fun time to share together which just also happens to provide tons of benefits.

Find Out How to Manage Stress With Your Autistic Child

by: Bonita Darula

What is stress? The dictionary describes it as "mental, emotional or physical tension; strain, distress." . Stress is not necessarily bad. The level of stress differs from each of us. It is like the tension of a harp string. You have a child with autism, who could bring you stress. This is almost certain and unavoidable. There are times you feel you will never make it through the day without experiencing the stress factor. How can you manage stress with your autistic child?

I know from my own experience, an autistic child can be extremely difficult to handle, and understand, due to their many various behavior patterns of expressing themselves. This is stressful for you as parent(s), caregiver(s) and family members. But, you can learn to manage stress.

You as parent(s), caregiver(s), want what is best for your child with autism. Due to this fact, most children require much of our attention. Autistic children, require close attention, sometimes one on one care, and even 24 hour care. It is overloading at times. This too will cause stress.

Start to manage stress by not to over committing yourself. There are times when you have too much to do, and not enough time to do it with all of the other responsibilities, of raising your autistic child. There are times when you commit yourself to doing something that you really do not want to do, but you do it, just to make other people happy.

Another way you can manage your stress, is not to overextend yourself by trying to do too many things you want to do, because you are trying to take advantage of the time you have for yourself. Having an autistic child does require time, patience, and sacrifices.

I know when I overextend myself, and try to do too much, in order to fill in the gaps where I have free time, I get exhausted. Taking on this kind of behavior, you and your autistic child will not benefit from the joy of life. I have had numerous times in my life, when I was tired and I should have rested. I continued to push myself to go out, or to have company. I would end up exhausted, instead of being tired. Exhausted people usually become grouchy and impatient. This often caused strife in our family and led to more stress. This is not managing stress.

There are times when you have "just had it" with your child. You feel you want your own way, instead of trying to make changes, being flexible, and adaptable. You probably wanted everyone else to see your view, and do what you want them to do, your way. By doing this, it will only create more stress. Not good management of stress.

Remember, having an autistic child will, and can create stress. It is important to weigh your issues, determine how you can avoid the ones that you feel will create the stress, and then develop a way to redirect those issues to avoid stress. This will help to manage your stress.

If you continue to have stress when challenges come from raising your child with autism, you will have burnout. Burnout comes from physical and emotional exhaustion, resulting from long-term stress. You want to be strong and healthy for your child. When burnout comes, the stress depletes your body, and your immune system becomes weak and sickness and depression can set in. Burnout causes you to be out of control, and you will probably not be an attribute to your child who has the disorder of autism.

It is wise, when you feel your child is causing you stress, to be in control of the situation, by being aware of what is creating it. In addition, you as parent(s), caregiver(s), must take care of yourself. Managing your stress, especially when it is created because of your autistic child, is like managing your weight.You need to take of yourself, and be aware of the pitfalls that can bring on stress.

You can learn to manage your stress that is caused by your child who has autism, by:

* Taking a nice hot bath to relax, and totally let go.

* Give yourself permission to relax.

* Go for a walk in a park, or sit under a tree and read.

* Jog, bicycle ride, skate, paint, be creative.

* Go sit in a quiet place, your own sanctuary, and meditate.

* Go to libraries, or book stores, and lose yourself with all the information around you.

* Listen to music. The music you like, and know you will enjoy.

Remember, stress is all around you. Learn to manage it, understand it, and be aware of it. Once you are able to do this, there will be positive benefits to your child and you.

Parent with Emotional Intelligence and See the Benefits

by: Julianna Suranyi

As a mother of two boys aged 11 and 13 years old, I sometimes wish I knew what I know now when they were two years old - as most parents in general do I think, once our children continue to grow in and out of all their weird and wonderful phases.

I must say that as a single parent and sole income earner for nearly ten years that there have been many challenging moments and some just outright scary times. However, throughout all these times the one thing that I always found stable to manage was my boys. Now I am not saying they are perfection personified, far from it - but they are pretty good.

The reason I never found raising the boys as two little personalities so difficult is because I was constantly studying and then implementing the emotional and intuitive intelligence tools I was exposed to and seeking. Most of all, I decided to set a charter of trust within myself to action these tools without concern about how they would be publicly viewed or judged.

I have learned through both my psychic and intuitive profiling work and life experience that child-raising is by far the most difficult and influential position a human being can ever have. As a person who has witnessed first-hand the outcome of what parenting can let loose into and onto society, I have learned a rock solid fundamental fact that would easily be backed up by those who work within both the judicial and policing arenas: we as parents will determine and shape our children's futures until they are of an age to determine and shape their own.

Bringing children into our world should be thought about well before it occurs. Once it has occurred, at the very least, we should be questioning what kind of person we would like them to become so that we can encourage and develop in those arenas ourselves so that we are ultimately able to guide them into this.

We especially need to think about emotional intelligence when additional children come into the mix, or we will continue bad habits and problems that we seek to improve. You see ultimately, our children will model not only what we do, but also what we do not do. If we are loud our children learn this is okay, if we are quiet they also learn this is okay. They use an innate sense of intuitive savvy to tune into our emotions and our precursors, which are the motions, movements, breathing, eye movement, verbal pitches and general body sensations we subconsciously exhibit prior to our actioned behavior. This is what children then behave from.

To be emotionally intelligent is to reduce the risks that we can indirectly place on our children and to firm up the only real long-term influence we can have on them, which is to teach them to be emotionally stable, flexible and socially conscious.

So how do you do this?

1. Be aware of the stress levels you bring into your interactions with your children. I am not saying to pretend that all is perfect in your world, just to remember that this is your world, your choices and they must live with them through no choice of their own. Remember that if you are stressed and harassed that they will either feed off this or pull away from it. So you end up with a child who plays up or simply finds you too stressing, with their environment too unstable and they become insecure as a consequence of it.

2. Understand that you are human and that you were here before your children. This may be a selfish concept, but it's very important. You must remember that as a human being you are entitled to feel that you need a bit of space and time and that whether or not you are in a relationship with your children's partner that they are equally responsible to them. Children are amazingly resilient and "know" the truth as they live it. They know which parent they can rely on and the one they cannot. They rely on the reliable and consistent one...simple. If you both are reliable and consistent, then that's even better.

3. Emotional intelligence begins with parents knowing what their expectations of each other's physical and emotional commitments to their children are, so that this limits variable styles of parenting within the family structure. Defining this will restrict, if not stop, parents warring over the children and enable you to focus on healthy relationships.

4. If you are on your own, understand that you are not a super parent and you can only do what you can, when you can. Guilt has no room in the growth of emotional intelligence. I also recommend that you create little rituals for the children and yourself. This is important because it allows you to share and express away from the outside world.

The risks for children are so wide and sweeping in the world as it is now. We need to remember that we as parents do not have the right to inflict our day on our children or anyone else for that matter. We need to show some respect to our children. And we need to know the agenda we wish to parent from. Discuss and agree, seek professional assistance and structure if you need to, about your parenting styles so your children are raised with a unified, strong and disciplined format.

The little things done on a daily and weekly scale are the things our children remember; these are the things that create stable, capable and emotionally intelligent children whom we unleash into our world - a world that so desperately needs their emotional intelligence.

No PD data from opticians, too bad.

Zenni: the #1 online eyeglasses store sells prescription eyeglasses considering the health necessity behind it, but Opticians don't want give you PD data if you want to purchase. Read a professionals take on it.

Quoted by OptiBoard Professional: "Got Asked for a PD Today (First Time)
This afternoon I had a 20 something women approach me and sheepishly ask if I could measure her "pupil distance," as her eye doctor wouldn't do it for her.
I told her that I wouldn't. Actually you couldn't pay me enough to do that for anyone.I wonder how others deal with this relatively new phenomenon? I welcome you to share your experiences"

I fail to understand why Opticians keep you away from ZenniOp because it provides wearers with high quality and effective eyeglasses at affordable prices, and so if customers need the PD data to ensure proper eyeglass fitting, i don't think they should refused but Opticians should charge a fee for the service they provide. Why don't they understand how important it is for patients/customers when they purchase eye-ware especially for health reasons.