The Shocking true about parenting and cell phones!

cell phone2 The Shocking true about parenting and cell phones!The other day I was at the park with my 20 month old granddaughter.  I was just amazed at what I was a witness too.

Here was this couple, with their 2 year old in the park.  Now I always thought you took your kid to the park, so they could play and you could have some quality time with them teaching the fun of swinging, going down the slide and climbing up the stairs on the play equipment.  Mom was sitting on the bench with cell phone in hand.  Paying no attention what so ever to the little guy she had given birth too.  Dad would sit on the bench at times with cell phone in hand paying no attention to what his sperm had created.

Is Your Child Emotionally Happy?

Shallon Caldwell (my daughter)runs the Missing Children Task Force, a nonprofit organization in Colorado, that aids parents and law enforcement in the location and recover on missing children.

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Have you seen Mystic Salazar

You are probably wondering what this has to do with happiness.  A lot of the children that she looks for can be a runaway child or children that have gotten mixed up with the wrong people, because they are looking for happiness and love.

Secret to Happiness is Building a Childs Self-Esteem: Part 11

KIDS AND SELF-ESTEEM

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Happiness Within for Children

None of us were born with low self-worth or low self-esteem.  It developed through the years by what we were told and how we were made to feel by the people in our lives.  Whether you have children or not, you can make a difference in a child’s view of themselves and stop the cycle of low self-esteem problems, which is certainly going to help make a happy adult.

Obviously first step toward fostering a good self-image in children is to provide them with unconditional love and caring.  Don’t criticize or berate them.  Always focus on the positives and provide encouragement in everything they do.

Always Choose to be Happy…This Little Girl Does!

Here is a beautiful poem that I ran across and I feel it needs to be shared.  This little girl shows us how pride in someone can help us have happiness within.  It shows us how blessed we are, because of one little girls sacrifice.

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DADDY’S POEM

Her hair was up in a pony tail, her favorite dress tied with a bow.
Today was Daddy’s Day at school, and she couldn’t wait to go.

But her mommy tried to tell her, that she probably should stay home.
Why the kids might not understand, if she went to school alone.

What You Need to Know About Choosing Happiness for Your Children!

In raising our children we do not realize how we can be hurting them.  When I was growing up I remember how my mother (bless her heart) used  to tell me you didn’t get the dishes clean, you didn’t scrub the floor right, you can’t do that and the list went on.  She had no idea what she was really doing to me.  She thought she was teaching me and it was her way of trying to get me to do things the right way. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!  The secret to my happiness was going right out the window.

Raising Happy Children; Learn the Secret

Are we making these mistakes with our children?

Are we hiding them in a bubble?  Over protecting them?  Holding back there Happiness?

There immune systems are failing, because we protect them from germs.  When you were a kid didn’t you drink out of a garden hose and run through the hose on a hot summer day?  We shared one soft drink with four friends, not from one bottle and no one actually died from this.  We didn’t have Play Stations, Nintendo’s, X-Boxes, no video games, not 150 channels on cable, no DVD’s, no cell phones or personal computers and no internet or chat rooms.  We were happy and it wasn’t costing our parents and arm and leg to keep us happy.