Posts Tagged "want"
“Important” Breakthrough
You say what's important to you. Sounds logical, but through most of my life, I looked to my circumstances or other people for permission to decide if something was important to me -- including myself! I didn't see it this way at the time, but I actually gave others the power to say what was important for me. That's what you do when you can't say what you like or want without fear of...
Read MoreGrant Your Food Wishes In Fantasy
If you ever had any doubts about the SAY WHAT YOU SEE strategy of granting children's wishes in fantasy originated by Dr. Haim Ginott, author of the parenting classic, Between Parent and Child, there is a NY Times article by John Tierney that discusses something he calls the Imagine Diet for adults. He says: "The experiments at Carnegie Mellon are the first to show that habituation to food can...
Read MoreLearning from Childhood Accidents
A little girl decided to take her puppy on a tricycle ride. She held the puppy in one arm and steered with the other as she rolled down a short hill with her feet up. When she hit the bottom of the hill, the trike lurched and the puppy flew out of her arms landing right in front of the front tire. She stopped, ran inside, and hid feeling scared and embarrassed. The puppy was fine; the child was...
Read More“CAN DOs” Work For All Ages
You don’t have to psychoanalyze your child to offer CAN DOs. Just turn it over to the child with our all-purpose statement, "Hmm. Must be something you can do," and see what comes back. If all you get back is a blank stare, offer some CAN DOs of your own by asking yourself, “What else would work?” For a young child breaking things out of curiosity, you might try: “You can build a block...
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