Teaching Your Kids The Value Of A Dollar
Bella Breakdown Raising kids can be tough but one of the toughest things you need to teach your kids about is money. Children are very impressionable at a young age which is why they need to be educated on being financially conscious. Author of the book ‘Make Your Kid A Money Genius,’ Beth Kobliner, gives parents some tips on teaching your kids the value of a dollar. Kobliner says that the number one thing to focus on is waiting and patience with spending money. The key idea is that we wait for things that we really want which leads...
Making A Cleaning Team With The Family
Bella Breakdown Cleaning the whole house yourself can be a lot of work for you, the solution is to work smarter and not harder. Here are a couple of tips on how to get the whole family involved in housework so you can get the cleaning done quicker while spending more time with the family. If you’re a neat freak and criticize how others clean, this only frustrates and discourages people from wanting to contribute their help. You might have a certain way you like to clean that others might not do, this also gives you the chance to...
Teaching Your Kids About Healthy Food Choices & Avoiding Mealtime battles
A Little Food for Thought… Starting when our babies are around 6 months old, we begin feeding them regular food. It becomes evident very quickly what their preferences are. While they will readily gobble up sweet potato and banana, they might make a yucky face at smashed peas or other more bland foods. We all know the importance of establishing healthy eating habits, but this is often easier said than done. It is so much easier to get kids to eat what they love and avoid mealtime battles. However, our job as parents is to set our kids up...
Teaching Acceptance: Explaining To Kids About Different Types of Families
Tips for Teaching Kids Acceptance There are many things in life that we have a choice over. However, people cannot choose the way they are born. The color of their skin, their gender, their sexual orientation, the type of family we are born into, and many other things are out of our control. This is why one of the most important things that you can do is to teach your child acceptance of “different” kinds of people. Rather than a sit-down lesson, this is done through your own daily actions and interactions. The example you set through your daily...
