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One of the extraordinary benefits of playing with blocks is that so
very little is required to hold your child’s attention for so long. 
Far different than many of today’s passive activities, playing with
blocks is an active event that cultivates your child’s patience and
independent decision making.

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Making a schedule goes a step further than having a schedule.  Making a schedule is aimed at restoring enthusiasm and cooperation.  It’s written down.  It lets your child know that every day is not a willy-nilly festival where anything and everything can happen.  It also reassures your child that she can count on fun activities.

Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you’re still busy tending to your child’s basic needs.  You just have the added duty of keeping up with her.  If you are frequently asking yourself, ?Where is she getting all this energy?’— then it’s happening.  The duty of keeping up has arrived. 

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Parenting is probably the hardest job and yet, you are never trained for it! As education leaves out one of the most important tasks ever, some simple advice might be welcome.

If you are a mum or a dad, I hope this will help you! First I want to tell you that you are always doing your best with your kids. Unfortunately - and that’s one of the main reasons why you are reading this today, education missed out on one big topic: nobody ever taught you to be a parent. You have to make it up as you go along and that’s so hard. In my career as a teacher, I can honestly say that the vast majority of parents I met always really had their kids’ best interest at heart but sometimes, they just didn’t know how to get it across. Not for want of trying, just because of lack of training, as it were.

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