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Instead Of Telling Your Kid ‘5 More Minutes’, Try Saying This To Avoid Freakouts

How many times this week have you issued the “five-minute warning” to your kids?

“Five more minutes and we’re leaving the playground.”

“You have five more minutes to dance naked in front of the mirror and then it’s bath time.”

“I’m giving you five minutes to clean up this mess before security arrives and kicks us out of this Costco. Again.”

Then what happens? Twenty minutes pass, the five…

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5 Modern Parenting Techniques and Their Pros and Cons

Parenting is considered to be a multifaceted process that includes nurturing, raising, and guiding the development of a child. This process

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Child Rearing

[Originally published on Livejournal July 18, 2002 at 07:45am, mildly edited for clarity]

Raising a child is not always about what you say, its in what you do. I think adults today are told what their childhood should or shouldn't have and don't realize the real blessings that were there.

My personal struggles with accepting aspects of my childhood had to do with trying very hard to see the "positive" things and not to dwell on the negative things, which I think is more human nature, we will always talk about what we didnt have and how fucked up we are because of it.

There were two main parts of childhood development for me, there was the time I spent with my mother and her raising me, and there was the time I spent, with my grandmother and her completion of raising me.

My mother dying at such a young age, has allowed me to crystallize the memories I have of her and thus place her on a very unrealistic pedestal of goddess-like behavior, which I know is ridiculous, but they are my memories, why shouldn't they be pleasant :)

My grandmother on the other end I had great struggles with and the fact that she raised me after alot of my identity was already formed, we had big struggles over who was running my life, spiritual and otherwise. Her issues with my sexuality blossoming only added fuel to this fire.

It took me a very long time to see that I held alot of resentment towards my grandmother for NOT being my mother, and she had issues seeing me as my own person and NOT my father. She struggled with wanting to do better with me then she felt that she had with my father, who didn't really seem to make much of himself, her disappointments there led her to greater lengths with me to make sure I would be "successful" in her eyes.

It took me a VERY long time to see that with "parenting" there is no guide that comes with the child, and that each "parent" struggles with the way that they were bought up to try to do different and better for their child. I know I am making a huge generalization here, and being more then gracious, because we know not all parents are this way.

When I thought about the struggle between me and my grandmother, I saw that she was doing the best that she could. She may not have been a cuddling, doting, cookie baking grandmother, but what she DID DO for me, is what meant alot, and THAT was her way of showing her love for me.

My grandmother got the dishonor of basically raising me thru the terrible teens which is a very difficult time for any parent, esp when dealing with raising your child's child, and dealing with the death of that child's parent. So my grandmother was not handed an easy task, by any means, as I said previously, I had developed alot of the basis of my personality by the time I was in her house, and I was VERY much my own person. I never had to deal with someone trying to control me, which was very new to me, i also had to deal with defining myself in a new environment, very unlike the one i was raised in.

After years in my adult life of struggling with my grandmother, I came to the awareness that she did do the best that she did, when i stopped focusing on my anger, and let myself self see her deeds, is when I realized, what a blessed existence she was trying to provide for me.

I travelled the world more extensively then anyone I knew by the age of 12. She enrolled me in a private school (that I rebelliously got kicked out of). She got me into a summer prep school program at a very prestigious private school. When I showed interest and talent in dancing, she enrolled me at Dance Theatre of Harlem, and drove me to my classes and picked me up. She did her best to purchase modern fashion from me at discount prices at the Macy's Discount Outlet. She tried to save my eternal soul thru constant church going (i am going to hell, directly) She nurtured my interest in singing (in the choir). She supported my pursing a career in acting and auditioning (if I pulled my grades up in Spanish, which I didn't). She tried to instill in me a sense of financial responsibility, thru buying me my first mountain bike and making me pay for it, thru my weekly allowance for over a year.

Now there were negative points also. I never felt she was as affectionate as I would have liked she was not like the "Electric Grandmother" from the television movie by any means. Her casual racism was an issue that revealed its self to me in very frustrating ways, but mind you this is a woman born in 1927 and raised in the South... Her religious zealousness, i could have really done without. Her very apparent homophobia, and heterosexism, were not favored with me also. Her trying to make up for what she feel she lacked in raising my father, was a huge constant frustration.

So ultimately what I wanted to say is as I get a glimpse of your childhood, the not so painful aspects, it doesnt seem as bad to me, as it may seem to you. I found that adjusting my expectations of my "parents" helped me alot in letting go of my anger, and allowing me to have some kind of relationship with my grandmother. I know your experience with your parents was of course different. But I think there is some value in the general theme of what I am saying here.

Our experiences make up a huge part of who we are, how much do we really want to change those experiences? And would we like that other person that would result from those changes?

[Afterwords: Well damn, I thought I wasn't going to respond to this well written and thought out piece from my twenty-something self. But then the second paragraph from the end it seemed I was directing this message to someone. I don't know who that someone is. I don't think my nephew MJ would have been quite old enough and wasting these kinds of words on my very clueless former siblings seems like a lesson in futility.

Its someone who still had both of their parents. I am coming up with nada. What is really nice to see is that I seriously made an attempt to be cool with SB and who she was even though who she was was basically a monster. She may have not been physically abusive but she loved to dabble in psychological abuse and manipulation and her continued misdeeds made a relationship with her untenable. I do love to see that I made a clear attempt and my efforts were thwarted by her continued bad behavior.]

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Positive Reinforcement For Repetitive Actions In Kids

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Positive reinforcement is an effective approach that supports children in developing new skills while managing repetitive actions in a compassionate way. Behavior therapy in New Port Richey, Florida, emphasizes creating a nurturing environment where these actions are understood and redirected toward meaningful outcomes. By focusing on positive reinforcement, children feel supported and encouraged as they progress at their own pace.

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Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids: Practical Tips to Nurture Empathy, Self-Awareness, and Social Skills in Your Child

Parenting Tips for Encouraging Emotional Intelligence: Building Resilience and Empathy in Kids

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Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids: Practical Tips to Nurture Empathy, Self-Awareness, and Social Skills in Your Child

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Adapt Stubborn Children to Improve

Adapt Stubborn Children to Improve Let’s know the tips to adapt stubborn children to improve. It is said t