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    “I pay the schoolmaster,
    but ’tis the schoolboys that educate my son.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Spit out your whine

    I just thought of something I do that has been a very helpful parenting tool. If I hear a whine or a crank out of a child, I hold out my hand for him or her to “spit it out” in my hand. The child’s voice almost always changes immediately, and I often get a smile. This has worked extremely well, maybe because I have used it regularly and at the first sign of a crank or whine. Then, problem resolution and/or empathy go into play. I try to help the child cope with the cause of the whine, which could be hunger, fatigue, frustration, etc. The empathy might simply include expressing the child’s feelings in words.

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    1. Derek says:

      You would need a bucket for me to spit my whine into.

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