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Kids hate routine but they love rhythm

24/6/2019

We hear a lot form "experts" in parenting and childcare that children thrive in a routine. "Bedtime" routines and "getting ready for school" routines. "Get baby into a routine otherwise you'll make a rod for your back" (Where are all these rods? If they really existed we could build something awesome).

I hear about routine all the time. My favourite one is at the end of the summer when every other parent I meet tells me they cannot wait to get back to school to get their kids back into their routine.

Well I hate it. Seriously! and so do my kids. But I tell you what they love and what they need, it's rhythm, and here is what I mean by that...

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Am I creating bad sleep habits?

17/6/2019

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So you’ve heard it all before;

‘you are making a rod for your own back’,

‘they are manipulating you’

‘You’ll never get them out of your bed’

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Top tips for using praise effectively

10/6/2019

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Using praise and rewards to get our children to behave in a certain way can seem like a harmless and positive thing to do, but it can be a slippery slope towards giving our children the wrong message about their behaviour.

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Can you see the perfection in your child?

3/6/2019

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I’ve just been to the cinema with my husband (a very rare treat these days!), and we saw the film Lady Bird. Have any of you seen it?

It is basically a story of a teenager’s relationship with her mother as they go through her last year of school and applications to college.

There is a scene in the film that really struck me. Lady Bird is asking her mother for approval, and her mother comes out with “I just want you to be the most perfect version of yourself you can possibly be.”

And Lady Bird replies “What if this IS the most perfect version of me?”

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