Priceless Parenting Moments

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Priceless Parenting Moments
Maximizing the Time You Spend with Your Child
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How can you assure priceless parenting moments?

• Brainstorm about some of those priceless moments
• Brainstorm about some of those pressured, perhaps
  terrible moments

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Three strategies

• Talk to them in a language they understand
• Preparing and preventing
• Balance planned and unplanned time.

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Languages of Love

• Tell me
• Show me
• Touch me

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Tell me

• "I love you!"
• "You make me laugh."
• "I love being with you!"
• "My life is better because you are in it."
• "Thank you for being my child."
• "You make my life richer by being in it."

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Show me

• An ounce of action may be worth a pound of
  promise.
• Follow-through with actions

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Touch me

• Safety and closeness
• Take cues from the child
• Availability to child

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Preparing and Preventing

• Planned Time
• Unplanned Time

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Planned Time

• Reassure them
• Have fun
• A lot of money is not required

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Planned Time (cont.)

• Make appointments to do things with your children
• Use planned time to reconnect with older children.

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Unplanned time

• Childproof for toddlers
• Notice the childs needs

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Unplanned time (cont.)

• Invest 5 minutes to save 10 minutes

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A few more tips

• Keep the hands busy
• Children do not have much self-control
• Children are self-centered
• To have realistic expectations
• Prepare the child in advance
• Child-centered environment

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More tips

• Lay out the clothes, pack the lunches the night
  before
• Your ideas...

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Priceless Parenting
Challenge yourself to create at least one new
positive moment each day with the children in
your life. Make it PRICELE
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