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Quote of the Week
"If you've told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner." - Walter Barbee
Want To Stop Being Upset? Change Your Mind.
"Once we’re feeling an emotion, we have no choice except to breathe our way through it without taking action. You feel the emotion, in the larger context of calm, which heals it. That's how we release upsets and move beyond them. (And it's why acknowledging your child's emotions helps her to let them go. Your empathy helps her accept and feel the upset, while your calm witnessing helps her heal it and let it go so she can move on.)
But many of us find that we’re repeatedly swamped with upsetting feelings. Sure, we can spend all of our time breathing through them and releasing, but there’s another way – go to the source to prevent them. And the source of an emotion is usually a thought (or a collection of thoughts, sometimes known as a belief, viewpoint, or conclusion).
So while we have no choice but to honor the emotions we’re already feeling, we can completely sidestep many upsetting emotions just by noticing the thoughts that are creating our emotions." [read more]
Reading Corner
 Title: The Power of Positive Parenting: A Wonderful Way to Raise Children
By: Dr. Glenn I. Latham
Ages: Adult
"Perhaps the most important job we have as human beings is to be effective parents. Given the millions of variables that can affect the development of our children, however, there is no doubt that being a parent is also one of the most challenging jobs. Fortunately, Latham has written a wonderful book that details the successful application of principles of behavior analysis to the development of our children.
In the last few years, I have had over a dozen college students who were parents themselves use this book with their own families as class projects for a developmental psychology course I teach. All students reported substantial improvements in their home lives and in the interactions with their children. These anecdotal outcomes support the empirical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of behavioral principles in real world situations.
We owe it to our children to be the best parents we can be!" - Amazon Reviewer
Recommended by Cubs Editor
Be The Change
The next time you are put into a confrontational situation, try taking a deep breath before responding to the situation. That microsecond of breath will be able to help you decide whether to act or react. Children are constantly watching us. This daily practice will impart lessons of strength and wisdom without words in our children.
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