{"id":3577,"date":"2011-07-17T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2011-07-17T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:56:38","slug":"practical-parenting-tips-for-creating-a-peaceful-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2011\/07\/practical-parenting-tips-for-creating-a-peaceful-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Parenting Tips for Creating a “Peaceful” Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A parent has incredible power.\u00a0 When both parents agree, that power is more than doubled.\u00a0 If they disagree, their combined power drops to less than that of a single parent.\u00a0 Ex.\u00a0 When things get tough or hard, help your child learn perseverance by saying, “Press on- I know you are going to get it or make it” or “we are proud of you for hanging in there with your soccer even though you\u00a0haven’t won any games yet.”\u00a0 If the job they are doing seems overwhelming, divide it into 2 or 3 sections and encourage a break in between.<\/p>\n

Persuade your children to do the rotten jobs and chores first.\u00a0 When you look at the list of things to do, do the thing you didn’t even want to do on your own list …. and do it first.\u00a0 Otherwise, it will spoil the rest of your day.\u00a0 Help your child learn tasks!\u00a0 Start young, do them together and celebrate.\u00a0 Set a hurdle low and let them clear it before you raise it.\u00a0 Set time limits and teach them about time management.\u00a0 With all tasks: Let them watch you, let them help you, you help them and then you watch them!<\/p>\n

Give your kids pocket money as soon as they are old enough not to eat it!!\u00a0 Pocket money (just like clothing, food, and love) is a privilege of belonging to a family and does not need to be earned.\u00a0 In the same way chores are responsibilities of belonging to a family, and are not done for rewards.\u00a0 There can be\u00a0ways of earning extra cash as well.\u00a0 This is a good time to teach them giving and saving.\u00a0 10% to church, 10% to piggy bank, 10% to charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you want to talk to your son, invite him to help you clean the car, fix something, cut the lawn etc.\u00a0 Face to face works well with girls, but shoulder to shoulder while sharing a task is often best for boys.\u00a0 Don’t expect communication to flow quickly, (especially with teenagers), but it is more likely to happen during these times of shared activity.<\/p>\n

The above tips are taken from a dear wise friend, Una Tapping.\u00a0 She recently visited\u00a0Morehead City\u00a0from Australia and shared her wonderful wisdom as a mom with our agent, Amanda Morrow.<\/p>\n

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A parent has incredible power.\u00a0 When both parents agree, that power is more than doubled.\u00a0 If they disagree, their combined power drops to less than that of a single parent.\u00a0 Ex.\u00a0 When things get tough or hard, help your child learn perseverance by saying, “Press on- I know you are going to get it or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[461,430,459,250,460],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-communication","tag-family","tag-learning-tasks","tag-parenting","tag-perseverance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}