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Don't Steal from Your Kids by Giving Them

You know it really does suck to be a parent sometimes. <sigh>

Children nowadays tend to have the gimme gimme disease or entitlement wart.

I hope I have not raised my children to have those afflictions.

I am very proud of my kids and while I think they have mild forms of these diseases, we really try to keep them in check.

Just ask them, they will tell you that they do not get everything they want. Life is hard isn't it. Wah!

 

Good luck raising your kiddo's. I am still waiting for the manual on that topic.

 

ºoº D

 

Don't Steal from Your Kids by Giving Them
too Much!
Weekly Tip from the Love and Logic^® Experts

Dear Friend,

 

I know a loving mom who does just about everything to make sure her kids are happy every second of the day. If there isn't the type of food they like in the fridge, she runs to the store to buy it. Whenever the newest electronic device comes out, she makes sure they're the first to own it.

 

Of course, she refrains from requiring any chores out of them, because she knows they work hard at school. Besides, it upsets them when she asks them to help.

 

Unfortunately, and unintentionally, mom is stealing from her children. They are two of the most miserable human beings on earth. They walk around; actually they sit around most of the time, with scowls on their faces. Because mom has stolen their self-esteem and gotten them hooked on stuff, nothing seems to bring happiness or contentment. Everything is "stupid" or "boring."

 

When we train our kids to believe that getting stuff is the key to happiness, might we be stealing their lifelong joy and sense of fulfillment? In our book, From Innocence to Entitlement, we teach that true contentment comes from earning things rather than being showered with them.

 

To protect your children from this type of insidious theft, experiment with the following:

• The next time your child wants something, ask, "How do you think you might earn that?"
  
  
• Instead of taking on the problem of affording the item, say, "You may have that as soon as you can afford it."
  
  
• Give them some ideas about how they might earn the required cash, and give yourself a pat on the back for not giving in.
  
  
• Notice how proud they are when they earn things through good old-fashioned perspiration.

Thanks for reading! Our goal is to help as many families as possible. If this is a benefit, forward it to a friend.

 

Jim Fay

 

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"All of your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." -  ºoº Walt Disney ºoº  

 

Marshmallows (Blog:She Scribes)

Scouring the blogs for info for you, so you don't have to.

 

This is another must have for those S'more lovers out there. She even has 3 bags to giveaway.

YUM YUM!
 

Kraft Jet Puffed StackerMallows – A 'Smores Lovers Dream! (Giveaway)

Posted: 24 May 2011 09:02 AM PDT

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Who doesn't love a 'smore? It has something for everyone…ooey, gooey marshmallow, sweet & crunchy graham cracker and luscious chocolate. Mmm… I could go for one right now.

I think everyone knows how to make a 'smore. If not it's super easy to do. You take a graham cracker, top it with a marshmallow and some chocolate, and then add another graham cracker on top.

When you are making 'smores around the campfire it's part of the experience to get sticky and covered in marshmallow and chocolate. For the perfect 'smore you need to have a warmed marshmallow to mash between the graham crackers and chocolate.

Making 'smores at home using the microwave is not the same as a campfire. Marshmallows tend to blow up when they are "nuked" in the microwave, where as campfire marshmallows simply get brown and soft.

Trying to mash a bit marshmallow between two graham crackers not only is messy but often causes the graham crackers to crack and break, making even more of a mess.

Kraft came up with the perfect solution – Kraft Jet Puffed StackerMallows. StackerMallows are flat and rectangular shaped, perfect for on top of a graham cracker. It's as if they were made especially with graham crackers in mind.

I could not wait to make a 'smore when I received a package of the StackerMallows. Since I didn't have a Hershey bar handy I used the next best thing – Hershey's Kisses.

FYI… StackerMallows blow up in the microwave just like regular marshmallows. If you have Kisses on top the roll off as the marshmallow plumps up. It's best to warm up the kisses to the side, and then put them on top of the marshmallow before topping it off with another graham cracker.

The StackerMallows taste exactly like regular Kraft Jet Puffed Marshmallows, only their shape is different.

I can't wait to try one of these out in a cup of hot cocoa. Because of it's shape you can even dip the marshmallow in the hot chocolate too.

I'm trying to think of other cookies I can sandwich one of the StackerMallows in between. It doesn't even have to be melted.  

Look for Kraft Jet Puffed StackerMallows on a store shelf near you.

 

I have three bags of Kraft Jet Puffed StackerMallows I can give away to three winners (one bag per winner).

To enter simply comment on what you would you do with the StackerMallows? Would you use them in a recipe or eat them right out of the bag?

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Kimberly

*I received a free product sample in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opininons expressed are my own.

Daily word

I've been receiving these in perfect time after crying out for help. It's like he is listening. Which, he always is.  The scripture can put into words what I can not verbalize. 

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A righteous man may have many troubles,
but the LORD  delivers him from them all;
  ( Psalms 34:19 *NIV )

  We all face troubling times in our lives. Times that we
wish that we could escape from troubles like the pain of
sorrow, grief or failure to just name a few.  Even perhaps
the small daily frustrations that constantly bother us as well.

  When you find yourself experiencing problems like that
remember that; The LORD  is close to the broken-
hearted and saves those who are crushed in
spirit. ( Psalms 34:18 )  For after all; The eyes of
the LORD  are on the righteous and his ears
are attentive to their cry; (Psalms 34:15 )  
For when; The righteous cry out, and the LORD
hears them; He delivers them from all their
troubles.                         ( Psalms 34:17 )

 Now you may be thinking, how does that apply to me for
I do not feel very righteous.   Well through Jesus Christ we
become righteous, for it is written; God made Him who had
no sin to be sins for us, so that in Him we might
become the righteousness of God.  Therefore
if we repent of our sins they are cleansed from "The Book of
Life," and we become  righteous once again!

So, remember the Words of our Savior Jesus
Christ; "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust
in God; trust also in Me. and let GOD deliver
you from all of your troubles! Amen. ( John 14:1 )

All My Love & Prayers,
      Pastor Allen

Photo by: Will Merydith

Letting Them Fall

May 25, 2011

by Erin Beth Liles of "Coloring Outside the Lines"

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When we arrived at the skating rink that April day, I was excited. "This is going to be fun!" I said, full of memories of myself gliding around the neighborhood on my skates. I was eager to teach my daughter Maya, then seven, how to skate the way I had as a kid. It turned out to be much harder than I thought – mostly for me.

We laced up our skates and headed toward the rink, our faces taking on the rainbow hue of the lights. As Maya wobbled out onto the slick surface, I, mother, giver of assistance, was ready to help. "We'll do it together," I said. "I'll help you." But when I tried to hold her hand, she wobbled even more. When I skated next to her, she skated into my feet. "Let me go mom, I got this," she said as she precariously inched forward. My stomach took a sick turn as I watched her skate out onto what looked like a speedway full of race cars. The other skaters zoomed around the rink-drivers in the Indy 500. I panicked. "Hold onto the wall," I instructed, hoping I could at least help her by telling her what to do. But she didn't want to be told what to do. She wanted to do it herself. Without me.

I took a lap around the rink and came back to skate just a bit ahead of her. I watched helplessly as she fell. She fell skating near the wall, in the middle, from one end of the rink to the other. Each time I tried to help her she shooed me away like I was a fly. And each time she fell, I heard a faint crack. Of course I was terrified that it was bones I heard breaking, but then I realized that it was the sound of my heart breaking, just a little, with each of her falls. And in that moment, I was going against the most important rule of motherhood I knew. You protect your children. You keep them safe. I was letting her fall. But after about an hour, she was cruising along and singing to the music, sweaty and bruised, but happy. I saw that she was proud. I saw how confident she was. "Look mom!" she shouted. "I'm doing it!"

In the days following our trip to the roller rink, I thought a lot about the idea of letting my child fall. After all, I often tell her, "It's ok to make mistakes because you always learn from them." But I was beginning to wonder, how often do I let her make mistakes? How often do I just do things for her because it's hard to watch her fall?

A few weeks ago, I let Maya (now eight) walk to the mailbox, less than half a block away. When it was taking longer than expected, I went to see what the hold-up was. She had jammed the key so that it was bent and wouldn't fit in the keyhole. "Wait right here," I said, "I'll go get the spare key." When I returned, Maya said, "Some lady asked me if I was ok." A streak of fear flashed through me. Did this stranger think I was putting my child at risk by letting her walk down the street on her own? With visions of Child Protective Services showing up at my door, we walked the short distance home – me second-guessing my decision to let my child engage in an independent activity – my child, well, she was quite happy.

In her blog, "Free-range Kids," Lenore Skenanzy has created a movement that encourages parents to let children take just such risks. She writes, "A Free-Range Kid is a kid who gets treated as a smart, young, capable individual, not an invalid who needs constant attention and help." However, knowing when to help and when not to, is not always so easy. Most of us remember our childhoods as having a fair amount of freedom and independence, unlike today's children, whose lives are much more contained and protected. With access to 24-hour news and all its horrifying stories about injuries and abductions, we modern parents worry more than parents did in past generations. Maybe it was this fear that made watching her fall so difficult. Maybe it was what made that well-meaning stranger worry about my child. But my child was telling me she needed me to let her go a little, to let her fall, so that she could learn how to get up on her own. I needed to listen. I needed to give her some room to grow, away from the tightened gaze of parental eyes.

As Skenanzy says, "Children, like chickens, deserve a life outside the cage. The overprotected life is stunting and stifling…" It's not easy. Fear is a powerful motivator. But sometimes, when we decide it's right, we have to look that fear in the eyes and tell it to get lost, so that our children can find themselves. And so, on that day at the roller rink, I chose to open the cage. And now, Maya knows the joy of gliding around the neighborhood in her own pair of spiffy new skates.

Oh, she still falls down, and not just on her skates. Only now, I don't feel like I've fallen down as a parent when she does.

Erin Beth Liles is a stay at home mom and freelance writer.

http://www.mamapedia.com/voices/letting-them-fall

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