The same patience we, as writers, apply to nurturing our writing into something excellent is the same thing we need to apply to teaching children. Make a difference. Be a cycle breaker!
Discipline: The Relationship Between Writing and Parenting
Blind?
Look. Feel. See. Decide not to.
Why patience is important to good parenting
The first thing to parenting is patience. Your baby will scream. Your four year-old will defy you. Your seven year-old will disobey you. Your ten year-old will make trouble. But if you meet these troubles with patience, your family will come out better for the wear. Learn how.
He Has Gentle Hands
A blind boy contemplates the arrival of his newborn sibling without favor based off the whispered experiences of a school bully.
Let the Tears Flow: What to do when your child cries
When children are told not to cry and stop crying before they are ready, feeling an unconscious need to obey their parents, some of their feelings are left clenched up inside them. This can lead to depression or anger.
Let Go
Recognize your golden prisons.
T is for Teacher
T is for Teacher . . .
Sorry
A glittering gift? A knife to the heart?
Waiting
He snapped and his heart protested.
Coronavirus: Giving you the opportunity to bond with your kids.
With schools shut across the country and colleges and businesses going online, families are stuck together at home with no options such as eating out, going to the theatre, or daycare to relieve the stress, since social distancing is advised right now. What to do? Watch TV and play video games nonstop?
Thrice Damned: The Foster Children Of America: Part Three
Parenting is an instinct you are born with. It tells you what to do with your child; it tells you to feed them after birth, to change their diapers, and care for them as they grow. You cannot learn to parent by taking a class because parenting is not a lesson you can learn through study.
Sacred
Wings in the mist but perhaps it is teeth?
Pioneer Children: Born To Work
Having a large family, especially since many farmers kept moving further West, solved the problem of falling short of labor. Children cost nothing but the food and clothes to sustain them, leaving parents with fives of children under their roofs. To keep them under control, mothers turned to spanking while fathers whipped in the infamous woodshed.
F is for Family
F is for Family . . .
Twice Damned: The Foster Children Of America: Part Two
It is not that foster parents are unequipped to handle kids; foster parents are required to take parenting classes. The problem is that there are few people in the country who actually know how to be parents.Â
