Wow, what a great response last week to the topic of getting a pet. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and experiences on the subject – it was really helpful to me and to others as well, I’m sure! Topic Suggestion for this Week: Teaching Impulse Control This topic was requested via the comments…
Category Archives: Try This Tuesday
Try This Tuesday #26: Getting a Pet
As I mentioned last week, I will be giving a topic suggestion each Tuesday to write about. Of course, it is just a suggestion; you are still welcome to write about any topic you wish. Topic Suggestion for this Week: Getting a Pet How did you decide whether getting a pet would be good for…
Try This Tuesday #25: Changes
As I mentioned in my post last Friday, I am extremely grateful for everyone who participated in Try This Tuesday during 2008. Thank you for all of your insights and experiences which have helped all of us, including and especially me, become better at what we do. One idea I had for the coming year…
Try This Tuesday #24: 1-2-3 Magic
Over the years, I have become quite disenchanted by typical parenting and child discipline books. A lot of this had to do with the process of learning where my son was developmentally and how to communicate clearly with him so that he would understand what was going on around him and his part in it….
Try This Tuesday #23: Accepting Help
I don’t have any amazing new strategy or must-have item to make your life easier this week, just a story about what happened to me this weekend. I hadn’t been feeling too well since last Monday, but assumed it was just a really bad cold, so I said goodbye to my husband as he went…
Try This Tuesday #22: An Easier Way to Vacuum
Last week when I was cleaning up our house before a friend came over, I realized I wasn’t going to have time to vacuum the living room and still finish the other things that had to be done. My son likes to help me when I vacuum, but he can’t manage the heavy machine by…
Try This Tuesday #21: Expected Behavior
One of my son’s biggest issues is the difficulty he has with taking another person’s perspective. Now this is perhaps not totally uncommon in six year olds (LOL), but because he has trouble figuring out what other people are thinking and feeling, it is often hard for him to know what behavior is expected of…
Try This Tuesday #20: Gearing Up for the Holidays
Edited to add: Although I am making a topic suggestion, you are always free to post about any situation or ideas that you wish to share. And if you do decide to write about holiday tips sometime this month, you can link them to whichever TTT is most current (you don’t have to come back…
Try This Tuesday #19: How Do You Get Your Child To Sleep?
When I asked a couple of weeks ago for any issues you would like some input on from other readers of 5MFSN, I got this one from Gail at Challenges and Adventures. She has a question regarding her son who just turned 11. Hi Trish, I would love to pose this question to other moms:…
Try This Tuesday #18: Speech Game
This week, Rickismom from beneath the wings shares a fun way to emphasize the use and meaning of pronouns through a game. SPEECH GAMEby Rickismom I want to present an easy, very useful game to teach the words “I”, “YOU”, “WE”, and “THEY”. These words are confusing, due to the fact that the terms are…