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This is a resource lens for all mothers both new and experienced
Made Me Smile
- M - For the million things she gave me,
- O - For she's growing old,
- T - For the tears she shed to save me,
- H - For her heart of purest gold;
- E - For her eyes, with love-light shining,
- R - For she is always right and always be.
Start to help your kids . . . by working on you!
A ScreamFree parent facilitates rather than dictates; she encourages her children to use their own resources to solve problems. By helping kids to get in the habit of making their own decisions and living with the consequences, parents will be more likely to launch "self-directed" adults.
ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool (Screamfree Living)
My life has become scream free, February 23, 2006
Reviewer: Ramp "The user" (TX) - See all my reviews
Buy this book... Don't even hesitate. I bought this book last week , and I haven't finished it yet. Amazing that how it has changed the way I deal with my child this past week. This book is even helpful for your relationship with other people. I admit that I have matured as an adult by reading only 70 pages of it!! So, if you are frustrated of yelling and screaming at your kids, just read this book!
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To All The Mothers...
This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It's OK honey, Mommy's here."
This is for all the mothers of Kosovo who fled in the night and can't find their children.
This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see. And the mothers who took those babies and made them homes.
For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes. And all the mothers who DON'T.
What makes a good Mother anyway? Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips? The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time? Or is it heart? Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to School alone for the very first time? The jolt that takes you from sleep to dread, from bed to crib at 2 A.M. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?
The need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a school shooting, a fire, a car accident, a baby dying?
This is for all the mothers that sat down with their children and explained all about making babies. And for all the mothers who wanted to but just couldn't.
This is for reading "Goodnight, Moon" twice a night for a year. And then reading it again. "Just one more time."
More below
.Patience
Links to Excellent Websites
MOM WOW
- GuerrillaGrrls.Com
- Information and links on attachment/instinctive parenting, breastfeeding, childbirth, and activism.
- Real Mom Club
- Satirical forum for mothers to cope with kids through stories, animation, and stick figure cartoons, and other features related to child parenting adventures.
- Amazing Moms.com
- Bright ideas for busy families.
- Monthly Articles For Mom
- Topics covered include Sanity Tips for Eating Out with the Kids, When Mom Has a Temper Tantrum, When Little Kids Curse, When Dad's Away, and Pregnancy No-Nos.
Nice clean site - Teenagers Today
- Articles, communities, personal diaries, and expert Q&As for the mothers of teenagers
- My Baby Connection
- Resource for pregnant or new parents. Offers advice, a newsletter, information, and products for babies and toddlers.
All organized in an easy-to-navigate site! - 4 Parents Network
- Dedicated group of webmommy entrepreneurs working together to bring resources to parents.
- Mothers 35 Plus
- If you are a so-called "older mother," this is the site for you.
- mother i
- Community and support resource for creative moms.
- MomPlanet
- Advice about the kids and the latest in mom resources.
- Motherhood Poems
- A large collections of poems about what is like to be a mom.
- Groovy Mom
- Forums, polls, and tips for mom.
- Parent Sources
- Guide to help parents find everything in their area to help with family and children.
- Momscape
- A community designed to support, help, inspire, and nurture moms through articles, advice, and discussion forums.
- Mum2mum
- A meeting place for mothers. Find news, exchange views, share worries, seek and give advice, vote and campaign.
- Mommy Tips
- Parenting, safety, children's health, stay at home moms.
- Mom Central
- Smart solutions for busy moms: insiders tips, advice, and lists.
- My Mama Said
- An online community with advice, tips, support and help for all moms
- The New Homemaker
- Advice, news, opinion and support for stay-at-home parents and caregivers. Not your mother's housekeeping--the "new" is for attitude, not time on the job.
- Mommy Magic
- Dedicated to short stories, poems and books about parenting.
- Emphasis On Moms
- Encouragement for moms to help them enjoy who they are and what they do in the home for their families as parents, wives and women.
- eMommies.net
- Moms meet other moms in the message boards. Also a kids section and contests.
- Baby-Source.com
- Place for moms and moms to be to come for advice, news and tips on parenting babies.
- The New Mommies' Network
- Information and events for new and expectant parents, and toddlers' parents.
- RealMothers!
- For mothers who are our own experts and believe we are woefully overworked and underfunded.
- Canadian Resources For Moms
- Canadian Resources for Mothers.
- Moms: Mothers Talking About Motherhood
- Material from the 1999 PBS series of the same name. Transcripts and videos available for download. Hosts forums which cover a variety of Motherhood related topics.
- Mommysavers.com
- Frugal living for thrifty moms.
- Mom's Page
- Informative and inspirational site featuring message boards, chat rooms, parenting tips, card shop and links.
- Nurture Mom
- Advice on parenting, childbirth, and relationships.
- It's A Mom's World!
- Message boards, galleries, journals, articles, recipes, chat, and product reviews.
- Between Moms
- Moms network and share mom tested ideas on parenting. Includes tips on activities, crafts, organization, and recipes. Also offers articles and a forum for moms.
- Mid Life Mom's
- This site offers friendship, information and support on mid life pregnancy, empty nest syndrome, menopause, and many other issues related to the maturing mom.
- Parenting Joy
- Stay at home mother sharing parenting tips, mothering experience, and Singapore parenting.
- TnTMom
- Information for Moms on parenting, homemaking, and home schooling. Offers a discussion forum and free MommyZine ezine.
"Our mission is to help to make being a Mom
easier and more rewarding."
Times Have Changed
Made Me Cry
This is for all the mothers who mess up. Who yell at their kids in the grocery store and swat them in despair and stomp their feet like a tired two-year old who wants ice cream before dinner.
This is for all the mothers who taught their daughters to tie their shoelaces before they started school. And for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead.
For all the mothers who bite their lips -- sometimes until they bleed -- when their 14-year-olds dye their hair green. Who lock themselves in the bathroom when babies keep crying and won't stop.
This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their purse. This is for all the mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters to sink a jump shot.
This is for all mothers whose heads turn automatically when a little voice calls "Mom?" in a crowd, even though they know their own offspring are at home.
This is for mothers who put pinwheels and teddy bears on their children's graves.
This is for mothers whose children have gone astray, who can't find the words to reach them.
This is for all the mothers who sent their sons to school with stomachaches, assuring them they'd be just FINE once they got there, only to get calls from the school nurse and hour later asking them to please pick them up. Right away.
This is for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation. And mature mothers learning to let go. For working mothers and stay-at-home mothers. Single mothers and married mothers. Mothers with money, mothers without. This is for you all. So hang in there.
Please pass along to all the moms in your life. "Home" is what catches you when we fall - and we all fall. PLEASE PASS THIS TO A WONDERFUL MOTHER YOU KNOW.
Author Unknown
Since the writer wanted her message passed along --
I share it with you.
Magazines for Mothers
Mother & Baby
Mother & Baby covers pregnancy to 2 years with articles on health, fitness, nursing, nutrition, behavior issues, and a wide range of related parenting issues
Amazon Price: $124.70 (as of 07/12/2009)
My Personal Picks For Kids
- Fact Monster
- Fact Monster zeroes in on clusters of facts that genuinely interest children. It's like they took a bunch of kids then asked them what they really want to know
Great Tip
" did the whole weeks supper meals on Sunday while cooking a Sunday dinner. I just made enough extra for weekday meals. A big pot of spaghetti sauce to warm up for pasta or sloppy Joes. Oven baked chicken parts to reheat. Cooked pasta kept in a tupperware to drop into boiling water. For greens I chopped up raw vegies and stored in tupperware along with torn lettuce. Kept English muffins in the freezer to go with meals."
Smile
- All About Moms
- All About MomsThe following are answers given by elementary school age children
to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mo
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Everybody wants to be heard and feel special!
In Positive Discipline, Jane Nelson helps us understand that misbehaving
children are discouraged children who have mistaken ideas on how to achieve
their Primary Goal: TO BELONG. Mistaken ideas lead to misbehavior. Address the
mistaken belief rather than just the misbehavior.
Jane goes on to tell us to use encouragement to help children feel a sense of
belonging so that the motivation for misbehavior will be eliminated. Focus on
improvement rather than on mistakes.
A great way to help children feel encouraged is to spend special time being
with them, doing something you can enjoy together. With younger children (0-4)
this could be 15 minutes a day. With older children, it could be an hour once a
week. Alternate who chooses the activity. Schedule the time on a calendar, so
your children can look forward to it.
Start a bedtime ritual of sharing the "saddest" and "happiest" times during
the day. Share first and invite your child to join in. You will be surprised
what you learn. Listen, do not fix.
Give children meaningful jobs. In the name of expediency many parents and
teachers do things that children could do for themselves and each other.
Children feel a sense of belonging when they know that they make a real
contribution. Change your approach regularly. Make it fun.
Decide together what jobs need to be done. Put them in a jar and let each
child draw out a few each week. Then no one is stuck with the same chores all
the time. Parents and teachers can invoke children to help them make the house
and class rules and list them on a chart entitled, "We decided". Children have
ownership, motivation, and enthusiasm when they are included in the
decisions.
Get children involved in creating a solution to a problem or situation, and
in the creation of routines. Again, children feel a sense of belonging when they
know that they make a real contribution.
Most of important, make sure the message of love gets through.
"I care
about you! And I care about what happened. Let's work on solving this together."
Give lots of hugs!
And a big hug to you Jane Nelson for all these great tips!
