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How You Can Use the 4 Gift Rule This Christmas | HyperJar The 4 gift rule is very simple: you get each of your children … Something They Want Something They Need Something To Wear Something To Read … the 4 gift rules is great because it helps teach children that they can’t always have everything they want, and helps them to focus on things they actually need. It also teaches them about sustainability — since you’re not buying anything in excess, meaningful gift giving, and gratitude — since they’ll get gifts they’ll really appreciate....

After 15 days of confinement due to COVID-19, with 2 adults working and 3 children attending school remotely, “WFH” is standing more closely to “Working from Hell” than “Working from Home”. 😱

#1 Are you proud of the choices you are making at home? #2 Are you proud of the choices you are making at work? Connie Podesta (via Two Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Morning )

Teen Brain (by zefrank1) Can you do a video on the fact that adults always tell teenagers “I know it feels like the end of the world”? Speaking as a teenager, I understand that my problems and emotions seem petty and insignificant compared to those of full grown adults, but if we are meant to learn responsibility and maturity, shouldn’t our elder spend less time telling us that our problems are small and more time helping us get through them?...

(via O que acontece quando você fica elogiando a inteligência de uma criança ) Por vezes parece que todos quem ter o seu “prodígiozinho sobredotado"… A verdadeira lição é o valor do esforço e do empenho, da superação das dificuldades, e não da superior inteligência ou "apanhar as coisas fácil”!

The bunk bed for twins dilemma He has a set of mirror-image twins and suggested that we refrain from interfering unless we saw blood. You will beamazed at what they will work out when you let them. They will have to deal with this “competition” forever, so let them learn now. Very insightful comments from parents with twins or closely aged children.

The Way of the Peaceful Parent :zenhabits Peace isn’t a place with no stress, but a place where you take the stress as it comes, in stride, and don’t let it rule you. You let it flow through you, and then smile, and breathe, and give your child a hug.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any. Bill Cosby (via The Way of the Peaceful Parent :zenhabits )

Quando se tem 5 anos, o pai sabe tudo. Quando se tem 12 anos, o pai não sabe tudo. Quando se tem 18 anos, o pai não sabe nada. Quando se tem 25 anos, o pai sabe tanto! Quando se tem 35 anos, ah quem me dera que pai estivesse aqui! Ele sabia tudo. Christiane Fleury

When I was 4 years old: My daddy can do anything. When I was 5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot. When I was 6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad. When I was 8 years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything. When I was 10 years old: In the olden days, when my dad grew up, things were sure different. When I was 12 years old:...