http://parentingpowers.com/blog Mindful Robotic Parenting Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:05:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The beginning of the school year is a great time to set up an allowance plan for your kids. This is not payment for chores, rather, teaching them how to manage their money. 1. Each child is allotted 3-5 envelopes (depending on the age and stage and needs of the child) 2. ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/545/allowance-is-what-you-are-allowed-early-lessons-in-financial-responsibility/ If you are a single parent and trying to start over you know what I am talking about. Perhaps you just started dating or you have been with the same person for a long while. Maybe you are thinking of blending your families or maybe you have already done this. But it is ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/536/if-you-really-loved-me.../ Rewards often don’t work for getting kids to chip in around the house. Let me ask you, do you really blame your kids for not wanting to take out the trash, set the table, sweep the floor or clean up their rooms? Do you want to do it? Does paying ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/524/getting-kids-to-chip-in-around-the-house/ Parenting has become more complicated in the last 30 years. What used to work: “Wait until your father gets home!” is long gone and parenting has become big business. Walk into any bookstore and you’ll see dozens of books on how to control your disrespectful child or teen. If you are ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/512/%e2%80%9cget-off-my-back-leave-me-alone-i-hate-you%e2%80%9d/ If you are like most parents have more than you can handle on your plate. You may work outside or inside the home, housework, laundry, shopping, yard work, carpools, doctor appointments, paying bills, child care, supervising your kids and on and on. It is very probable that a day has ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/506/you-are-your-child%e2%80%99s-favorite-toy/ On Sunday afternoon, set up an assembly line at the kitchen table. You will need: Bread for as many sandwiches to feed the family for one week. Luncheon meats, tuna fish, PB& J, or whatever else you and the kids like. Labels or scraps of paper for labeling. Sandwich bags or tin foil, whatever you ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/492/outsource-your-meal-prep-save-time-money/ If you are like me, you have thousands of details running around in your head. Sometimes you might be doing one thing and a thought comes flying in… “Oh yeah! I forgot I have to make that doctor’s appointment.” And then it leaves your head and doesn’t get done…maybe for ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/476/overwhelmed-too-many-details%e2%80%a6chaos-on-the-rise%e2%80%a6/ The well known African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child” brings many thoughts and emotions to my mind. I know it to be true from personal experience as a child who grew up in a single parent home. I have fond memories of the neighbors who monitored ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/482/who-is-in-your-village/ Making time for you, while parenting, can be a huge challenge. Sometimes it might feel like likes an impossibility…your job, long commute, household chores, kids activities, busing the kids to and from, laundry, meal prep, shopping, cleaning…..tired yet? So where do you fit it eating right, exercising, socializing, solitude, meditation ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/465/are-we-having-fun-yet/ Summer is a great time to put into place family rituals, things that you do over and over again every summer. It could be that you eat outdoors or that you take a walk together after dinner. It might be that you go camping or take some type of family ... http://parentingpowers.com/blog/460/creating-memories-for-life-this-summer/