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Once Upon a Porch Swing: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Thinking the Best, not the Worst. Over the next several Tuesdays, I’m giving readers a sneak peak chapter-by-chapter at what’s inside my new book,. Ending Sibling Rivalry: Moving Your Kids From War to Peace , which is available in October, with permission of Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City. Do your children regularly perform acts of charity toward one another? Do your kids share easily with each other most of the time? Do your kids talk kindly to each other most of the time?
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. For the Love of TV. Q: We introduced our three-year-old daughter to television at an early age. We put limits on viewing time—currently, 30 minutes to an hour per day of something educational. However, she loves, loves, loves TV and prefers watching it to anything else. Is this okay? Should we wean her off of it, and if so, how? A: Of course she loves it! What's better than doing nothing and being “entertained” by flashing lights and quick-changing scenes? In all activities, s...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Book Review: A “Fail-Safe” Method for School Success. During a back-to-school night at our local elementary school, we visited our daughter’s fourth-grade classroom. There, along with our daughter’s classmates’ parents, we learned from her teacher what she would be doing in fourth grade that year. But, as John Rosemond points out in his new book, John Rosemond’s Fail-Safe Formula For Helping Your Child Succeed in School. Exactly who is that helping? He rightly points out that ...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: Parent Coach NoVa
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Parent Coach NoVa offers parent coaching to individuals and gives presentations to groups of all sizes. Parent Coach NoVa provides a commonsense and practical approach to child rearing, following Leadership Parenting™ principles. What is parent coaching? A certified parenting coach comes alongside parents—both couples and singles—and helps them to become better parents. It is not therapy in any sense of the word. Who is Parent Coach NoVa? Sarah Hamaker started Parent Coach NoVa in the fall of 2012. S...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: Squelching the Wonder
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Do we allow children time to find the magic in their surroundings or are we too impatient to move on to the next thing? Image courtesy of sritangphoto/FreeDigitalPhotos.net. The sad part is the above scenario wasn’t uncommon in my life. Like many of us, I packed as much into one day as possible, leaving little wiggle room for stopping to smell the roses or see the first robin of spring. Until next time,. Posted by Sarah Hamaker. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: Resources
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See where Sarah's been quoted or mentioned recently. Interviewed on Let's Talk Live! On Jan. 7, 2015, about sibling rivalry, pictured on the set with one of the anchors, Kellye Lynn. View the segment here: http:/ www.wjla.com/blogs/lets-talk-live/2015/01/how-to-tame-sibling-rivalry-24122.html. Interviewed for " Helping Your Children Face a Lean Christmas. On The Happy Housewife. Guest on KFIA's Kingdom News, Oct. 31, 2014, to talk about Halloween. Listen to the interview here. Listen to the interview here.
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: Loving the Unrepentant Child
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Thursday, February 5, 2015. Loving the Unrepentant Child. Q: What do we do when our child refuses to be reconciled with you? In adult-to-adult relationships, each adult has the same responsibility to initiate reconciliation when conflict arises. But how does this apply to the parent-child relationship? Or do we wait for the child to humble himself and come to us? Image courtesy of Stuart Miles/. Most of the time, children of all ages find it difficult to be the one to take the first step toward righting ...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: The Irony of Homework
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. The Irony of Homework. Like it (parents) or not (students), homework has become an ingrained part of the school landscape. At its very basic level, homework reinforces what students are learning in class and gives teachers a quick check to see if their pupils understand the material. Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici/. For one of many examples I could cite from our children’s teachers at the local public elementary school (and let me state that we think the teache...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. For parents, the tricky part about trick-or-treating on Halloween comes in deciding how much freedom your kids will enjoy that evening. Will you send them out the door to canvass the neighborhood without you? Will you follow along behind them, watching from the sidewalk as they ring doorbells? Will you closely monitor their candy intake to avoid over-consumption? Will you hand out only organic Clementines in an effort to staunch the flow of sugar? Then there is the boost Hallo...
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Once Upon a Porch Swing: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014. As usual, I'm taking a break this week to spend more time with my family in Thanksgiving Day preparation, etc. I hope you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving celebrating God's goodness in your lives. Until next time,. Posted by Sarah Hamaker. Labels: Leadership Parenting Coach. Thursday, November 20, 2014. Here’s a way to handle this. The next time the cousins are scheduled to come over, have your sons draw straws or flip a coin to determine which one of them wil...YouR...
