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Miscellaneous tips

4 Responses to “Miscellaneous tips”

1. Kristamatic says:

   May 22, 2009 at 10:43 am

   Best thing to do is let your children feed themselves. I was arguing with them every day about their school lunches. They hated the lovely nutritious food I packed them and threw it all away, so I said fine pack your own freakin lunches, and now they do. I get veto power, but I let them take whatever they want, and don’t have to make lunches anymore. win win.
2. Dotty Finlow says:

   June 7, 2009 at 1:08 am

   Hurray – common sense and humour!
   I have two boys, 5 & 3: I can’t think of a job in the house that they don’t ‘help’ with, and if they get bored… great. It doesn’t take too long before the protestations and whines subside and they go off and amuse themselves – with their own, very fertile, imagination.
   I liken imagination to meditation: if you don’t use it, it won’t work.
   Thank you for a great site.
3. Martin Edwards says:

   August 2, 2009 at 2:26 am

   Smiley chart.

   never believed it’d last, but our 4 kids 13,11,9 & 6 follow it fanatically.

   smileys for good stuff, grumpies for bad stuff. a grumpy cancells a smiley. each month the winner (highest total) gets a prize. anyone in the minuses LOOSES something!!

   musical smileys for piano practice…..
4. sue kavanagh says:

   August 24, 2009 at 10:33 am

   ref this weeks Telegraph article,anyone wanting to teach their kids grammar should try and find a copy of Cobbets Easy Grammar, it is a series of letters the great William Cobbet put together to teach his 14 year old son James. It is a very small book which i came across in a second hand bookshop in Alresford, not far from Cobbets home town of Farnham in Surrey. His introduction includes reasons for acquiring the knowledge of correct grammar “in the immense field of this kind of knowledge, innumerable are the paths and GRAMMAR is the gate of entrance to them all.”

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