source: Poppy Thomas-Hill
Do you wish your teenagers would hang out with you?
Do you wonder if your kids are going to hate you one day?
Do you ever feel like your kids are just chomping at the bits to get out of your house?
How can you cultivate a family culture that is warm, welcoming, comfortable and secure? How can you make sure your kids are going to like you when they are older for goodness’ sakes?!
That’s the question I’m asking at Motherhood Your Way today! I’d love for you to weigh in!
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by oh amanda on February 25, 2011
in parenting
Last week I tried potty-training my 2.5 year old son.
Some of you are already snickering because you know all the drama that goes into that one sentence. My daughter was potty trained in 2 days at the age of 24 months. My son spent an entire week in Buzz Lightyear underwear and we did not see one peepee-in-the-potty.
By day 5 I was reaching my limit.
I had cleaned potty off the floor too many times to count, I had changed my son’s clothes so often that the only thing he had to wear was mismatched too little pajamas and I hadn’t left the house in days.
The final straw was when my daughter began to offer her professional potty training experience in the middle of me wiping up potty, cooking dinner, and changing a soaking wet little boy.
I turned around and yelled at her. Harshly. Rudely.
{read my full post at Motherhood Your Way}
I’ve been trying to figure out chores for the kids. (I just posted about this didn’t I?) I can’t seem to get a good rhythm going with Lydia, she sees brushing her teeth as a chore. So, that’s a problem.
The only thing I’ve successfully done is introduced Asa to putting away the silverware. He takes them one at a time from the dishwasher, then walks over to the drawer of utensils (which is above his head) and drops the silverware inside.
Not bad, eh?
Help me out–what chores do your kids do? Do you have a good system to help them stay on track? Feel free to leave a link in the comments!
