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Emotional Coaching

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 I am reading a really good book Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Children by John M. Gottman. It starts with taking a test to see what type of parent you are.  There are four different types of parenting styles which are:  The Dismissing Parent  disengages, ridicules, or curbs all negative emotions, feels uncertainty and fears feeling out of control, uses distraction techniques, feels that emotions are toxic or unhealthy, uses the passage of time as a cure-all replacement for problem-solving. Effects : Children learn that there is something wrong with them, cannot regulate their emotions, feel that what they are feeling is not appropriate, not right, and abnormal. The Disapproving Parent  is similar to the dismissing parent but more negative, judgmental and critical, controlling, manipulative, authoritative, overly concerned with discipline, and strangely unconcerned with the meaning of a child’s emotional expression. Effects : Similar to dismissing parenting techniques. The Laissez
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Parenting and Gender

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GENDER BOYS VS GIRLS This next topic is very controversial right now.  Dr. Phil actually just did a special last week called, "The Pronoun Debate" and touched a lot on this topic. He got very heated.  There was an interview by a lady who is raising her child without a gender.  It was shocking and surprising to see what she had to say.  But no matter how you feel about the gender debate or the pronoun debate in America today there is still the debate of how to raise girls vs boys.  Is there a difference?  Read this story for more info: https://time.com/5885697/gender-creative-parenting/ Lets start out by reading this story:  One of the BYU-I professors shared the following story about parenting and gender. She said, “I had a neighbor some years ago from another country. Although we were different in many ways, we developed a deep friendship and enjoyed watching our children of similar ages play and grow together. During long summer days of sitting together and watching our chi
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Parenting Styles

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I haven't written a blog in many years!  My last update was June 2015! This was when I was homeschooling my daughter Emmie who is now 15 years old and in High School!  Time sure does fly!  Since then, I have decided to go back to college and study marriage, parenting, and families. I have always loved studying marriage and parenting and I am very excited to see where this leads me in my future.  I have a Facebook page dedicated to parenting but wanted to start a blog on parenting as well.  We will consider this my first post! Here is an Updated picture of my family:                                      I started teaching a parenting class in my home this week, it was so much fun.  The class is a 9-week class, and we cover just about everything when it comes to parenting. The very first class was on parenting styles.  I asked the ladies in my group who I was teaching if they know of the three parenting styles, none of them had!  I was surprised by this information because they are a
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SAturday LAke Day

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Saturday Brad was going to go to Columbus to the Temple with a friend named Steve Masters for the first time all day. I didnt want to sit home all day with the kids and it was raining a ton.....so I called Ann to see if we wanted to chance the rain and go to LAke Erie by  her house. My friend Lisa KAy was going to cosco by the lake so she thought she might stop by.  Lizzie really wanted to swim to the Buoy but it was so far out.....Lisa went with her!  The water was freezing....it freezes all winter and stays cold.....the best thing about Lake Erie is it looks like the ocean!  All 3 girls swam a ton!  Evan kept saying....BIG SANDBOX! OVER AND OVER! He was in heaven playing with sand!  AS you can see it was not a sunny day but it NEVER rained! But there were times it was cold and kids needed sweaters.....thanks to Ann because I forgot to bring sweaters!  We ended the day with making Anns perfect house nice and sandy....
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Almost a month down

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School is flying by and we seem to be in a great  grove....Emmie wakes up and takes a shower and eats breakfast at 7am and we then take her sister to school at 8am then we come home and hit it hard until noon then we are done for the day. She has to do 5 hours a day so we get four in and then in the evening one hour of homework. She had her first online test with her teacher and here are the results she was way above average on both math and reading. Last year she really liked math but now we are doing multiplication and division and has switched over to really liking reading she loves reading and writing in her journal. Her reading score she read 100 words per minute. Almost off the chart for math
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Meet the teacher!

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We got to meet Emmies online teacher last week she is super nice!
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1st Day......always the hardest

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You know it takes a while to get into a routine.....it wasn't bad......last year the first day was BAD....today was just trying to get into the grove......... Here is our schedule..... Math ......do 1 lesson a day Vocab .....she does 2 lessons a day online only (for 10 a week) Literature ......do reading eggs (online program), read for 20 minutes on her kindle (she loves her kindle fire hd that K12 sent her), do a lesson online (we did 4 today) This is what are planner looks like I  am not sure I love doing it this way...I did last year but not too sure this year...... Spelling - Introduce spelling words on Monday practice through out the week with fun games test on Friday (the words were really easy today) Handwriting ...... She writes in her journal for 20 minutes....todays topic was what did you do this summer......writes 10 minutes on making her handwriting better....she already has great handwriting....then does a lesson out of her book! LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!
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