Here’s a quick parenting tip on lecturing your children… and a lecture always seems to happen after they make a mistake and we rescue them. I know that I would actually trade a lecture for getting my way (ie, being rescued), which was a BAD habit to get into!
What are your thoughts or comments? Why do you think lecturing actually harms your children instead of helping them?
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Aug 10
19
Helicopter Parenting in America
I just finished reading an interesting article over at Time Magazine, published in 2009. It is titled “Helicopter Parents, The Backlash Against Overparenting”, by Hugh Kretschmer. It seems that while many people still feel that Helicopter Parents are ideal in our culture, the extremes that we were seeing over the past thirty years or so is subsiding. This is a good trend, but unfortunately, we are reaping the benefits of this blunder in our economy, and worse yet, in our political system.
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Jul 10
22
What Parent Type are You?
There are three parent types, the Consultant, the Helicopter, and the Drill Sergeant. Check out the chart at the Love & Logic web site, “Three Types of Parents” to see what type you are.
The farther left in the political spectrum correlates to a Helicopter parenting type, “makes excuses for the child, but complains about mishandled responsibilities”. The farther right in the political spectrum would correlate to the Drill Sergeant parenting type, “makes lots of demands and has lots of expectations about responsibility”. A true conservative, not too far right and not too far left would be the Consultant, who “often asks self, “Who owns the problem?” helps the child explore solutions to his/her problem”.
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Taken from the article, “The Malaysia Example”:
“If he [Barack Obama] truly understood the motives and incentives of these countries and the political landscape in which they operate, he’d be doing the exact opposite of what he has been doing. Rather than telling radical Muslims what they want to hear, maybe it’s time to start telling Muslim governments what is expected if they want to have a productive relationship with the U.S. and avoid some adverse consequences. Now, that would be smart diplomacy.”
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I was reading the Jerusalem Post article “In praise of negative income tax”, which details that Israel is expanding their negative income tax (NIT) to spurn economic growth. Milton Friedman, a neoconservative economist first proposed the NIT in his 1962 book “Capitalism and Freedom”, the results have been fantastic:
Central bank researchers reached the conclusion that NIT works. Not only did it raise 4.5 percent of the 28,800 recipients above the poverty line (8.7% among families), but it also reduced the gap between the poor and the rich. Fewer had their telephone and electricity services cut and fewer had to compromise on medical services.
Researchers estimated that if the program were expanded nation-wide, another 300,000 would be eligible, 2,300 families would be lifted above the poverty line, tens of thousands would breathe easier – all at a cost of NIS 393 million. Most important, unlike most welfare that encourages unemployment, NIT provides an incentive to get off the dole and into the job market.
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May 10
16
Welcome to Parenting & Politics!
Everybody has their own unique political beliefs. No two people ever agree on everything, and if they do, deep down they’re dishonest with themselves. So many things contribute to political beliefs, religion is huge, and a lack of religion makes a difference too. Being a business owner, an entrepreneur, growing up lower class, middle class, upper class. Being in academia and being a professor, and as we found in the last election, even being a plumber can contribute! But of all the things that contribute to political beliefs, I believe parenting is the biggest contributing factor to political ideology that exists!
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