Valuable Memories!

Make some memories while you are with you children. Travel scrapbooks are a favorite with kids. give each child a large, spiral-bound pad of unlined paper and colored pencils.

Start by having each of them draw a picture of what they've done that day. then they can embellish the scene by taping or gluing on a few of the things the've picked up during the day--ticket stubs, postcrds, and other tokens.

To finish, they can write a sence or two about the day--you can ask younger children what they'd like to say and write it for them--then add a date and location to each page. these scrapbooks, like the road trips that inspired them, become family treasures.

Today's families are so busy runnig from activity to activity that a road trip is one of the few times with our kids.

.Raised Well-Adjusted Children – 2

While teaching the child to do specific chores, make them look fun. When teaching him how to clean the house, give him his personal broom and rag. When preparing his baon for school, teach him to wrap his sandwich with a paper napkin or wax paper, or stir the milk or juice drink. These little games will go a long way not just in teaching the child the meaning of responsibility and self-reliance, but also in making him more eager to attend school.

Adjusting to a new environment like school is often difficult for most children, particularly, younger children. Apprehension or fear is not unusual when a child is going to school for the first time. Most often, your child’s fear stems from being left alone where he no longer feels secure, where people feed and care for him and where he is the center of his own safe universe.

Giving a child simple household chores and teaching him to trust his own capabilities can make the adjustment easier. Once a child learns to trust himself in small things, trusting himself in the bigger things—like going to school, meeting “teacher” and “classmates” and other new people—becomes easier.

When your child discovers the meaning of responsibility and self-reliance early in life, he deepens his understanding of what it takes or live a comfortable and orderly life; learns that some things must be done, that all the family member must share in the workload equally, and that doing chores together strengthens the bond among family members. He learns to put value on extending and receiving help. More importantly, he learns to trust himself.

Once armed with that self-confidence, there is simply nothing that your child cannot do, no environment that he cannot conquer.