Parenting: avoid over gratification

Goal Setting, Health and Parenting Ezine

In today’s article
Goal Setting – Find time for reading
Health: Eat more nuts
Parenting: Avoid over-gratification


Goal Setting – Find time for reading

Harvey Mackay was famous for saying “Our lives change in two ways: through the people we meet, and the books we read”. So true.

If there is one thing that successful people, and people who have made a difference in this world have, it is reading books. And not just any books the right books.

You can be surrounded by all the wrong things; people who don’t support you, hostility, negatives etc. However, if you read the right books you can get through it You can fill your mind with all the positives and rise above your situation.

Listed below are some books you can read to get you started.
How I raised myself from failure to success in selling (Frank Bettgar)
Healing words (Larry Dossey M.D)
Think and grow rich (Napoleon Hill)
Developing the leader within you (John Maxwell)
The power of positive thinking (Norman Vincent Peale)
The road less travelled (Scott Peck (M.D)
See you at the Top (Zig Ziglar)

Healthy: Eat more nuts

Nuts are one of the most overlooked foods, and in the past have often received some bad rap – some of which there is justification for. Today, we want to explore nuts, particularly in their shells.

Firstly, save up and buy yourself a nut cracker. Nuts that are still in their shell are so much better for you. Picture a nut in its shell in the same way a egg is in its shell. The shell is what keeps the egg fresh inside, if it gets exposed to air it starts to deteriorate. Same principle. Just for some fun try pre packet nuts and fresh nuts at the same time – you will be amazed at the taste difference.

Nuts provide you with essential oil and nutrients that your body needs. They are healthy for your body and your heart. In fact, a Harvard study showed that people who ate peanuts (even in peanut butter) were 25 percent less likely to have a heart attack.

So next time you do your shopping, add a variety of shelled nuts to your list. Keep then in a bowl on your table with your nut cracker.

Parenting: Avoid over-gratification

In the first few years of a child’s life they need attention, some comfort and offcourse protection. However, if you give your child to much attention it can be damaging to them. Just as much as coke or sweets!!!!

Children who are provided with constant attention will soon learn to expect it. When they don’t get it, the results can be temper tantrums and crying. Luckily there are some simple ways to overcome it.

Put your religion (if you have one) and your marriage first. A healthy marriage is important to provide security in a child’s life. A healthy marriage also means that you help each other out and provide support to each other. This helps your child to develop with self-esteem, autonomy and independence.

In addition, don’t feel the need to put your child in every activity you can think off. You will not only be running around all day, you will also be spending heaps of money. Choose some activities that you think are important and stick to those. Three or four should suffice.

In other views

Your editor’s four year old daughter is practicing for a ballet concert. After looking over the requirements, it looks more like a professional Broadway show than a kids entertaining concert.

There are strict requirements for how she must have her hair, what make-up she must wear (from looking at previous photos they must look like drag queens!!!), and even what underwear she can wear – offcourse parents are not allowed anywhere near the children during the shows (actually perhaps that is a positive!!!)

Your editor wonders if it’s character building for the children, or if the instructors are living their dreams through the kids!!!

Anyway, we shall see how professional the show is. We have the first rehearsal at 9am this Sunday.

Cheers

Andrew Collings