
Valentine’s Day is a day to remember. While there is nothing sweeter than spending time with your significant other, why not make it a special day for all your loved ones and celebrate Valentine’s Day as a family.
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Now that baby is here, sleep is hard to come by and romance even harder. Being a new parent can certainly add some stress to your relationship, Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to step back, relax and enjoy each other. There is no greater and purest love relationship than that of a parent and a child to celebrate true love and true valentine in its selfless form. Here’s how to keep the flame alive on Your First Valentine’s Day As Parents:
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During a research experiment a marine biologist placed a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small bait fish into the tank.
As you would expect, the shark quickly swam around the tank, attacked and ate the smaller fish.
The marine biologist then inserted a strong piece of clear fiberglass into the tank, creating two separate partitions. She then put the shark on one side of the fiberglass and a new set of bait fish on the other.
Again, the shark quickly attacked. This time, however, the shark slammed into the fiberglass divider and bounced off. Undeterred, the shark kept repeating this behavior every few minutes to no avail. Meanwhile, the bait fish swam around unharmed in the second partition. Eventually, about an hour into the experiment, the shark gave up.
This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next few weeks. Each time, the shark got less aggressive and made fewer attempts to attack the bait fish, until eventually the shark got tired of hitting the fiberglass divider and simply stopped attacking altogether.
The marine biologist then removed the fiberglass divider, but the shark didn’t attack. The shark was trained to believe a barrier existed between it and the bait fish, so the bait fish swam wherever they wished, free from harm.
The Moral:
“Many of us, after experiencing setbacks and failures, emotionally give up and stop trying. Like the shark in the story, we believe that because we were unsuccessful in the past, we will always be unsuccessful. In other words, we continue to see a barrier in our heads, even when no ‘real’ barrier exists between where we are and we want to go.”
Managing Stress During the Back-to-School Transition
The back-to-school season can be a stressful time for both parents and kids. Any new transition can bring about changes in routines and schedules that leave us feeling discombobulated and overwhelmed. The transition back to in-person school can add a new layer of challenges for parents. As you work to manage your own stress and lengthy to-do list, you might also need to help soothe any anxieties your child might have about returning to school. Read more.
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Millions of children worldwide experience family disruption and divorce rates are rising in many nations. Co-parenting after a separation or divorce is rarely easy. Divorce can have a significant impact on your child’s life, what will determine their ultimate quality of life is still in the hands of each parent. These shared custody tips from Empowering Parents can help give your children the stability, security, and close relationships with both parents that they need. Here are 3 of the 9 Ways to Parent on Your Own Terms:
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Are you expecting your second baby and have a little one running around the house? Pregnancy with a toddler is probably a little different than your first pregnancy. You might be worried that when the new baby arrives, your oldest child will feel abandoned. At first, this may seem like a lot to handle, but with little advice and assistance, you’ll be able to manage pregnancy with a toddler with ease.
Here’s how you can balance the two:
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The Slow Parenting movement has rapidly gained popularity in recent years. Danielle Sullivan talked about slow processing and trying slow parenting on her Neurodiverging podcast.
Her family struggles with intermittent slow processing speed. She tried different kinds of parenting styles and she found slow parenting, the parenting approach that supports slower processing speeds.
Excerpt:
“The idea with slow parenting is to try to create more space and more time in the day for your child to process the world at their own pace, and to decrease the number of other things they have to do that will take away from their focus on processing. We just talked about how many of our children are overwhelmed, without enough time or space to think. Slow parenting creates this time and space for them.”
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Families who make goals together keep goals together. They can be fun and sure to benefit your entire household. Making resolutions as a family will help you attain your goals more quickly since everyone will encourage you. Your objective should be clear, measurable, and achievable in a reasonable amount of time. Here’s a roundup of the resolutions from Today’s Parent that you and your family should make:
Children frequently have trouble focusing, but when given a task they perceive as challenging, they are much more likely to quit before giving it their best. Tweaking your approach will help your child pay attention. Parents.com listed ways that may aid in maximizing your child’s ability to listen and minimize your frustration:
Excerpt:
“It’s important to establish routines so he knows what’s coming next. If he always takes a bath before storytime, remind your child that he can only spend ten minutes in the tub if he wants to read his favorite book.”
Our children go through so much unimaginable change as teens. Getting your kids to open up is all about knowing what questions to ask. More importantly, their answers will help us become better parents and ultimately create a deeper, more meaningful bond with our kids. FLEXTALK interviewed four teens, asking them seven things they wished they could say to their parents. Here are 3 of the talking points:
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