January 6, 2009
As the year turned to 2008, we celebrated New Years at home with our five and a half month old son. This year, we decided to head out to a party with our now 17 month old along. We were invited to a kid-friendly party at a friend’s house and I couldn’t be happier to [...]
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January 5, 2009
I would like to be a more patient mother and it turns out I’m not the only one! My readers have told me they want to be more patient too and a 1999 York University study commissioned by Today’s Parent found that patience was the top skill parents felt they needed and impatience was the number-one attitude they didn’t want to pass on to their children.Not only is being patient more pleasant for all involved, I also find that it is more effective. If I am impatient, my son tends to dig in his heels and be stubborn and my daughter gets whiny and clingy. But how can we slow down and be more patient?
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