Tips
Three Strikes
Do you even feel like you’re playing ping-pong with your parenting techniques? One tactic followed by another and then another. In particular, we have a perpetual problem with bickering children…who doesn’t, right? Our latest tactic may not stick, but it’s fun for the moment. Whenever A hurts B or B insults A we make the […]
Time Away
When kindergarten starts next year, we will have big leg up. Not only will there be English spoken from time to time, but the hours our little one will be away from us will actually be LESS than it is right now. Short school days are not something the Chinese excel at, and we have […]
Role Reverse
With our move and my return to the workforce has come a nice change of pace for the kids…less of me and more of Dad! And with it, a reminder of how important it is to allow them to have their own relationship with him, one not dictated by Mom’s rules and Mom’s agenda. Things […]
Doing More With Less
In keeping with the theme of PURGE from a few weeks ago, I have tried to transition our playtime props to the basics. At least while we are in transition here in China, this is a better way to manage the piles that accumulate on the hotel room floors and corners of our tiny closet. […]
