Reading Books to Him, Potty Training – Who Needs Parents?, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Curiously enough, the same day I post this video on allowing kids to contribute in the family, I walk into the bedroom to find this scene – my 3-year-old daughter reading books to my 2-year-old son. She’s teaching him all about [...]
For my second video post, I wanted to take up something that I’ve felt is important to me as a parent, and that’s allowing the contribution of children in the family. I’ve written about this probably more times than any other subject on this blog (like here and here and here and here), and it’s [...]
From LRH’s essay A Child’s Dignity and His Goals: “Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.” “A child should have responsibility and independence commensurate with his status as a [...]
Would you like to help your child recover from upsets and injuries quicker? My wife and I have found a simple but powerful principle from L. Ron Hubbard which we use to great success that I would like to share with you. This has to do with attention. When a person injures themselves, their attention [...]
When I was first planning to start this website, I was a naïve, brand-new parent, and had these amazing ideas of how I was going to be able to regularly edit together nice pro-quality videos with my nicer cam equipment, and do that regularly as a primary source of content. Now, two years later, about [...]
Now, this is one that every parent has to deal with to some degree or another – and for some it’s more of a problem than for others. What to do with a child who is waking up at night with nightmares? I’ve tried to compile some data that may be of some use to [...]
If you’re a parent or know any little kids, or even remember being a little kid, chances are you or someone close to you has been affected directly or emotionally by the recent tragedy in Connecticut. The first thought of more than a few parents I know (including myself) has been to find one’s own [...]
This quote, if you break it up into pieces, represents much of the core of how I’ve tried, as a Scientologist, to approach the topic of parenting. The fuller quote, from L. Ron Hubbard’s excellent essay, How to Live with Children: “The main problem with children is how to live with them. The adult is [...]
Saturday, November 17th is World Prematurity Day, a day where we can raise awareness on the problems of premature birth and support solutions for healthy full term babies. Of course, this day brings back memories of my experiences with prematurity and its attendant concerns. Last year, I wrote a post describing the emotional turmoil I [...]
Those of us dedicated to exclusive breastfeeding know the challenges of just maintaining a supply while working away from home. Add business travel to the mix and you reach a whole new level of complexities. All the rules of pumping on schedule and emptying each breast each session apply even more strictly. This includes setting [...]