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Successful Time-Out Tactics
Whether it's your first attempt at using this method of discipline, or you've tried and been unsuccessful in the past, these pointers will help make time-outs effective.
Choose a Time and Place
The first step in making time-outs work is choosing a suitable area. "A good time-out spot should be reasonably convenient and in a location where you can monitor it to make sure your child isn't being hurt and that she stays," says Dean Pearson, Ph.D., author of Is Anybody in Charge? A Guide for Managing Children and Teaching Them Self-Control. You can use a chair or stool, a floor mat, a bottom step, or any seat that works. If you prefer, designate a name for the time-out chair or space, such as the "thinking chair" or the "quiet zone." Just make sure the area is boring and away from the distractions of other siblings, the television, toys, or objects she could use to irritate you, says Dr. Pearson.
Once you've chosen the spot, decide how much time your child will spend there. A good rule of thumb is one minute per year of your child's age. So, a 2-year-old would get two minutes of time-out while a 4-year-old would get four minutes. If you find that the shorter time-outs aren't having the desired effect, increase the length by half the time (so your 4-year-old would get an extra two minutes, for a total of six minutes), Dr. Pearson says. Keep track of time with a kitchen timer or an alarm on your smartphone. When you begin using time-outs, your child will probably have to visit the area quite often. There isn't a limit to the number of time-outs you can use, but be sensible. Once your child realizes you will be firm with consequences, the need for repeated time-outs will probably diminish, Dr. Pearson says.
Introduce the Time-Out Spot
Don't spring time-out on your child. When you're both in a good mood, show him the spot and explain what it is: a quiet place where he will go if he doesn't behave and obey certain rules or if he needs to calm down. Choose three to five misbehaviors (like hitting, biting, angry yelling, throwing a tantrum), and be specific about which broken rules will lead to a time-out. Let him know how long he will have to sit during time-out, and explain that when time-out is over -- which is when the timer or alarm rings -- he can get up.
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Read To Your Child:
One of the most important things parents can do, beyond keeping kids healthy and safe, is to read with them. That means starting when they are newborns and not even able to talk, and continuing well beyond the years that they can read by themselves. Have fun and be playful. Don’t feel discouraged if a younger child gets distracted or interrupts story time with questions. That’s all part of the learning journey and reading process.
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How To Enroll?
Visit the school today between 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM or 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM for a tour. Appointments are not necessary.
Bring your child so they can prepare for a transition into their new school.
Provide a deposit to reserve your space in class for immediate enrollment or pick a future date.
Submit an enrollment application along with a copy of the child’s immunization record.
You must submit the California Physician’s Report within the first two weeks of enrollment.
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Genius Ways to Make Kids Love Reading:
These tricks should get your kids reading on their own in no time!
In addition to picturing my children being impeccably mannered, perfectly behaved angels, I also envisioned them devouring books the way I did as a child. My son would tear through the Hardy Boys and Harry Potter while my daughters fell in love with Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, and The Baby-Sitters Club series. But like most of my parenting fantasies, this one hasn’t quite come true yet.
Apparently this is not uncommon. “We want to get kids reading, but they are under increasing pressure to do so, and it can overshadow the joy of this wonderful shared activity,” says Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Ed.D., a professor emerita at Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of Taking Back Childhood. Of course, part of what makes reading enjoyable is being able to do it confidently. However, “parents shouldn’t be the ones reinforcing lessons or obsessing about fundamentals,” Dr. Carlsson-Paige notes. “They should simply be reading with their kids—that’s it.” In other words, keep it light and fun. Books should make you laugh and smile, transport you to faraway lands, and transform you into dragon-slaying sleuths, making you feel all the feels along the way. “If we treat books like they’re magical, kids will grow up believing that too,” says Shanna Schwartz, lead senior staff developer at Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project in New York City.
Start with these expert- and mom-approved ideas and the magic will follow.
1. Swap Ariana Grande for an audiobook.
Yes, audiobooks count as reading—and they can help children do it better. “Hearing someone reading a book confidently is a great way to experience fluency, which is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with good expression,” says Elissa Mostransky, a grade-school reading teacher and mother of four. Her favorites: E. B. White reading Charlotte’s Web and The Magic Tree House series, which her boys listen to in the car on the way to and from soccer practice. Borrow them at your library, or get a free listening app at Audible.com.
2. Model reading love.
“Children take cues from adults,” says Schwartz. “When you grow up surrounded by junk food, you like junk food. When you grow up surrounded by books, you like books.” Annette Uvena, a mom of two reluctant readers, shares her excitement often: “I make sure they see me reading, but I also talk to them about the book. I’ll excitedly point out something that reminds me of the story, because I want them to see that books bring me joy and will bring them joy too.”
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Crazy Important Rules for Potty Training Success:
If your child is struggling with toilet training, it's either because she's chock full of poop or too young or both.
As a culture we're obsessed with luring kids out of diapers—early, quickly, and in style.
Parents used to bait little ones with sticker charts, M&Ms, and cool undies; now it's medieval-themed potties and door-mounted devices, like the Poop 'N Pull, that deliver encapsulated treats with the tug of a cord. One blogger noted that the Poop 'N Pull, a Kickstarter venture, seemed like something you'd use to house train a puppy. "But, hey, if it gets the job done," she wrote, "who are we to knock it?"
I'm a pediatric urologist, so let me take a shot!
The goal of toilet training should never be "getting the job done." The real triumph is setting your child up to avoid a future of visits to continence clinics like mine. Virtually all the problems I see daily — bedwetting, pee and poop accidents, recurrent urinary tract infections — stem from my patients' potty-training days. In many cases, those days were a decade ago. I regularly treat 7th graders who poop in their pants and 10th graders who wet the bed, in addition to 4-year-olds who can't seem to graduate from diapers.
All of these children are chronically constipated.
Our single-minded focus on getting children out of diapers primes them to become chronic holders of poop (and pee). Eventually, the holding habit catches up with many of them. In short: Poop piles up, forming a large, hard mass that stretches the rectum and presses against and irritates the bladder. Eventually, the child may lose tone and sensation in the rectum — that's when poop falls out without the child even noticing. Holding pee exacerbates toileting problems. When I explain all this to parents, they're blown away. They say, "I wish I'd known this back when we were potty training" or, "I'm going to do things differently with my youngest."
If your child is struggling to use the toilet, it's either because your child is chock full of poop or too young or both. The problems I treat daily are both epidemic and entirely preventable. Follow these 7 Crazy Important Rules for Potty Training Success, and it is highly unlikely your family will ever set foot in a clinic like mine.
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Genius Ways to Make Kids Love Reading:
These tricks should get your kids reading on their own in no time!
By Erin Zammett Ruddy
In addition to picturing my children being impeccably mannered, perfectly behaved angels, I also envisioned them devouring books the way I did as a child. My son would tear through the Hardy Boys and Harry Potter while my daughters fell in love with Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, and The Baby-Sitters Club series. But like most of my parenting fantasies, this one hasn’t quite come true yet.
Apparently this is not uncommon. “We want to get kids reading, but they are under increasing pressure to do so, and it can overshadow the joy of this wonderful shared activity,” says Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Ed.D., a professor emerita at Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of Taking Back Childhood. Of course, part of what makes reading enjoyable is being able to do it confidently. However, “parents shouldn’t be the ones reinforcing lessons or obsessing about fundamentals,” Dr. Carlsson-Paige notes. “They should simply be reading with their kids—that’s it.” In other words, keep it light and fun. Books should make you laugh and smile, transport you to faraway lands, and transform you into dragon-slaying sleuths, making you feel all the feels along the way. “If we treat books like they’re magical, kids will grow up believing that too,” says Shanna Schwartz, lead senior staff developer at Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project in New York City.
Start with these expert- and mom-approved ideas and the magic will follow.
1. Swap Ariana Grande for an audiobook.
Yes, audiobooks count as reading—and they can help children do it better. “Hearing someone reading a book confidently is a great way to experience fluency, which is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with good expression,” says Elissa Mostransky, a grade-school reading teacher and mother of four. Her favorites: E. B. White reading Charlotte’s Web and The Magic Tree House series, which her boys listen to in the car on the way to and from soccer practice. Borrow them at your library, or get a free listening app at Audible.com.
2. Model reading love.
“Children take cues from adults,” says Schwartz. “When you grow up surrounded by junk food, you like junk food. When you grow up surrounded by books, you like books.” Annette Uvena, a mom of two reluctant readers, shares her excitement often: “I make sure they see me reading, but I also talk to them about the book. I’ll excitedly point out something that reminds me of the story, because I want them to see that books bring me joy and will bring them joy too.”
3. Theme your nook.
A quiet, cozy, full-of-books nook is a must. “Kids love forts, so just draping two chairs with a blanket can do the trick,” says Christina Droskoski, a grade-school reading specialist and mother of three. “But working with your child to make it an area where she’d want to hang out makes reading time even more appealing.” Consider a beach theme: towels on the floor, a beach umbrella propped against the wall, a poster of the ocean, and sand buckets to house the books. Other possibilities: a pirate's cove, rain forest, or spaceship.
4. Help bring books to life.
Finding book-inspired activities to do IRL extends the experience, says Dr. Carlsson-Paige. If your 3-year-old loves The Three Little Pigs, take him to see some piggies in person. Reading about the stars? Head to the planetarium. Or take a bookcation—to London after reading Harry Potter, say, or New York City after reading Stuart Little.
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