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EBooks Listen to your intuition and avoid making mistakes Series 1: Research Before Romance Or Finance *Listen to your intuition and avoid making mistakes *Do your homework! *The dark side of silence Series 2: Fight Or Flight? *Securing your home *Know when and how to break up *Happily ever after requires communication Series 3: What Are You Bringing To The Table? *Body image 1 *How well do you really know you? *Love, money & independence Series 4: Fatal Flaws *Familiarity *What/who are you attracting into your life? *Deal breakers/Red Flags that shouldn’t be ignored 2 Kitchen Table Politics: Including Your Kids In The Conversation Nourishing bodies and mind October 2016 Toledo Parent I love my kitchen table. A few friends of mine made it out of wood left over from the repairs the front porch of our old house. It’s one of those “trendy” farm style tables, but it was also quite cheap because it was repurposed from an intense building project. It seats 8-10 people and will be in our house for a long, long time. Recently, my wife and I have been thinking about the role his table plays in our kids’ lives. Heart of the home We have three daughters and they eat and draw and read and write at that table. They also laugh and scream and argue and spill and smear food at that table. It holds a significant place in their life and whether they know it or not, it fills an important role in their development. How to clean up and how to have fun with your family. And while they are learning manners and listening skills they are also learning how Mommy and Daddy interact with each other. Learning about conflict and resolution and sustenance and contentment and lack and want. It is the place our children are filled. We have some really great moments around this table. But what else our little ones are learning at this table? 3 A few nights a week, after the kids go to bed, this table transforms into the space where my wife, Lindsey, and I discuss all different issues. Sometimes we’re talking about what homeschooling might look like in upcoming weeks. Sometimes we are talking about family and friends or what’s happening in the neighborhood or what bills we need to pay. Sometimes we are talking about current events and headlines and political candidates and campaigns. And while the subjects may change, around this table everything is in some way connected. Yet, we have found that sometimes there can be a hefty, and not so healthy, distance between the kitchen table experience our kids have and the kitchen table experience we have. We want to merge the two. How can we talk about the issues that really matter to us with our kids? And especially in this election season, how can we talk to our girls about the political issues that matter to our family? How can we begin to merge those two conversations when appropriate and formative to our young children? 4 Recipe for success I think the best way to form some of the most central habits and perspectives in our children is to begin with those topics and issues that are most central to them. Want to talk about poverty? Talk about hunger at the dinner table and see what conversation emerges. Sure, it may be easy to talk to my three daughters about the possibility of the first woman president in U.S. history, but what about crumbling infrastructure and pot hole ridden roads and tap water with microcystin? Go to the lake and ask them what color the water should be. Then start to explore how the water became that shade of neon green. The next time you are on a bike ride together ask them who should take care of the roads? All of these conversations, bit by bit, add up to something. As we have started to explore these discussions, we found we need our children in this dialogue. They are the most creative, intuitive and imaginative people on the planet. Why not give them a shot at thinking about these things? When we teach our kids, we force ourselves to become more informed. We gain perspective. By talking to our children we discover the issues that really matter. It is an active practice that forces us to be involved. It forces us to research and dig for answers to those questions your kids ask that leave you stumped. “Kitchen table politics” is a common term in political circles referring to issues that immediately affect our lives. What is more immediate than our kids? What has a deeper effect than their well being? What if kitchen table politics referred to the issues that mattered to you so much that you had to talk to your children about it? What would that list look like for you? I encourage you to explore it. Sam Meldon 5 The Shocking Unbelievable Truth About Everything December 2010 Men’s Health The Myth: Back talk cannot be tolerated The Truth: Congratulations, your kid isn’t afraid of you. Back talk isn’t always a sign of disrespect or a harbinger of delinquency. He’s just not happy at the moment. The best antidote is disengagement. Convey with words or body language: “I’m shutting down this conversation.” Give his fire no fuel, and walk away. He may follow you, but the heckling will die down. “They’ll learn it doesn’t accomplish anything,” says Anthony Wolf, PhD., Author of Get Out Of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl To The Mall? Book: Legal Q & A By: Reader’s Digest Question: Greg’s son, Matthew was expelled from school for arguing with a teacher. Isn’t the school required to readmit him? Answer: If Matthew’s only offense was arguing with a teacher, he will probably be allowed to return to school soon. Students who disobey reasonable rules may be punished, but the punishment must also be reasonable. Only those students who are so disruptive that they prevent the school from performing its functions may be expelled permanently. 6 Police Blotter: Sandusky Police Boy, 14, 900 block Hancock St. unruly juvenile Monday January 30 1: 42 p.m. 2100 block Hayes Avenue Staff member spotted student walking hall during lock down drill, told him to go to the main office until drill was over. Boy mumbled something; staff member asked what he said. Boy said, “You don’t put no fear in my heart (expletive), I’ll slap the (expletive), out of you.” Single Sensation: 4 Secrets For Single Parenthood Success Reviewed By: Brunilda Nazario MD WebMD Senior Medical Editor Raising children on your own? Family therapist William Doherty, PhD, offers these tips for avoiding solo parents’ top mistakes. Be the leader. You’re exhausted after a long day at work. The kids are antsy for attention. It’s so much easier to cave and let them eat pizza in front of the TV while you retire to your room and recoup, or to trade sarcastic quips when they resist your authority --- but you mustn’t. “Don’t give up that position, or things will quickly degenerate,” Doherty says. Pick your battles --- and your policies. Be willing to give on small things --- “how tidy their rooms are, or the crazy haircut,” suggests Doherty. Tell your kids: “I’ll do my best to work around your schedules, too, but these are my rules and they will not be bent.” Maintain rituals. Whatever you did together before as a family --- dining out every Tuesday night, following special holiday traditions, or reading stories before bed --- be sure to continue after a separation. “You will be doubly exhausted now, but it’s doubly important,” says Doherty. “And most studies on the subject indicate the family dinner is the most important family ritual to maintain.” Monitor your teens. “A big mistake single parent families make is losing track of their teenagers,” Doherty says. “Know who your child’s friends are. Know where she’s going. Insist she check in whenever you ask her to.” Lauren Paige Kennedy 7 Good Storybooks Help Instill Appropriate Social Behavior In Young Readers July 2012 Toledo Reads We hear a great deal lately about the importance of social and emotional development in children. The State Of Ohio’s newest version of the Early Learning Content Standards will include indicators and the latest release of the Core Knowledge And Competency documents for early childhood professionals is a Social Emotional Field Guide. Appropriate social behavior is a learned skill even though children are born to connect to others. While we might think of children’s books as “good stories,” or entertainment, or a way to help a child become a better reader, there are some books for children that are so much more. Reading any book with a child is sharing time one on one, of course, and helps build a positive, trusting relationship between child and adult. However, some storybooks where characters face a moral dilemma, or are selfish, or greedy, or unkind, can allow children to think about what they might do faced with a similar situation.