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Teaching kindness to children

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To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ― Dr Seuss

Many parents are wondering when should I teach kindness to my child?

Well, do not forget that the child is imitating you and you are his/her role model at least in the early years.

“We can’t control their behaviour, but we can look for ways to demonstrate kind behaviour ourselves.”

Fortunately, kids are eager to copy us from a young age, so you can model kindness from the time they’re babies. “After all, you want your 18-month-old to imitate hugging someone. As they get older, your kids will watch how you treat people, from subtle interactions, such as putting your phone down to make eye contact and say thank you, to more tangible acts of kindness, like inviting a lonely person to share a holiday, bringing a meal to a sick neighbour, comforting the bereaved, and donating time and money to take care of people in need.

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Busy bee

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I won’t be around for a little while because I am working on a children’s book!!!
I had this sentence on my to-do list for quite a while, ”write a children’s book, Crina”!
But all the time was something else coming my way that stopped me. Finally, this should be a perfect time, and I do not care what’s coming next. I am gonna finish the book this year.

I love children with all my heart. I want them to enjoy, to smile while reading the book written by me.
The process’s quite difficult and takes time, but I hope until the end of July to have it published.
If you are a parent, please comment down below what is your child/ren favourite book.

I can’t wait to share with you the BIG NEWS one day. Keep me in yor thoughts, prayers.And I appreciate any suppoort!

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Changing a future

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5 little children from Romania live in poverty. They never had their own house.

The children and a single Mom are living in a tiny room with no electricity or running water. The room is not even theirs, it is Mom’s boyfriends. He is aggressive with the children and kicks them out at least once a month.

A small house will solve all their problems. No more trauma for the kids, they will go to school and have a stable place to live.

Please, share or help if you can.

Donate here : PayPal: mondoc.crina12@yahoo.com

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Emotional intelligence for children

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 Do you let your children express their feelings, or you ask them not to cry and go to their room?

Are you supporting the child to express those feelings, emphasise with an angry, frustrated, happy, sad child?

”If we were told from the beginning that childhood defines adult mental health, we would take care to be more loving of a child’s soul”.

I think most of our parents would relate to this sentence.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to be smart about managing your emotions.

E.I describes someone’s ability to express his or her emotions appropriately, to correctly interpret other people’s emotions, and to understand the triggers and outcomes of certain emotions.

From the age of two, your child should be able to show affection, you might see three years old comforting an upset child, they five hugs or a toy. They are capable of understanding the feeling of others. There are thousands of ideas on how to teach your child about emotions ( use cards, be a role model, and other technics like “bubble breaths”).

Imagine you are a 5 y.o and you playing with Legos, building a house, and someone comes and is destroying your work, what do you do next as a child?

But what would a parent that knows the importance of E.I in early childhood? Most probably will come to you and let you communicate your feelings, talk with you about understanding others, compassion, and support you in building the new house of Legos

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”Tell me about yourself”

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I am unemployed since December 2020. I resigned from a job I had in childcare. I thought what’s wrong in wanting to do what you truly love and have been studied for

Well, during these difficult times, here I am 2 months later still on hunting. I had lots of interviews, but it was a waste of time!

Why? because the employers receive hundreds of applications and they do not even look at your CV, they just call you on ZOOM and ask you some questions (I hate the question tell me about yourself’) and then they send or call to say that unfortunately… you know the rest of it. The companies, employers are affording to do it, there is a lot of people to choose from.

It’s quite a struggle to get a job if you do not have experience in the field for at least 2 years. You see the job of your dream, you graduated in that sector but they are not choosing you because they want at least 3 years experience. The list of ” skills, knowledge, abilities, experience is growing, at least 2 pages of requirements. Now tell me, how can a 25-year-old get a job?

A few hours ago a company sent me an application form to fill out for a job position they have, the application had 7 pages but not only this struggle, on the 5th page they ask some terrible personal questions like ”Please tell us about your background, including details of the family you grew up in, your memories of childhood (good and bad), what sort of things did you/do you enjoy doing with your family? How would you describe your general outlook on life?

I find these questions stupid, irrelevant to ask a person.
What’s next, what you ate last night, how many days a week you take a shower, tell me about your first boyfriend, have you kissed or…

I am very disappointed by some people that you would expect more from them. I am frustrated by this system of recruiting!

Do the politicians know, have they any idea of how hard it is for the young persons to get the job they were trained for it? I know the economy is not good at all, the foundation is built on quicksand, not on hard rock. We are in lockdown since December, people are standing in ques at the food bank.

Something must be done, dear politicians with superpower!

Are we wondering why are there a lot of people unemployed? well, the answer might be around here. Let’s pray for a better future, bright minds and kind people.

People, if you can, work for your own idea, dream, not for someone else’s. Start your own business, employ the young persons, give chances and train with kindness your employees.

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Parent-Child Attachment

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Attachment is one specific aspect of the relationship between a child and a parent where the child should feel safe, secure, protected.
Children first form attachments to their primary caregivers in infancy but continue to need attachment figures across childhood and adolescence.
Parents who do a good job of listening to their child, create more confident children, who will openly vocalize their needs.
The attachment theory describes very well the connection between a child and the parents or their careers.

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Atenție mare la jucăriile minuscule pe care le oferiți copiilor!

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Am citit o știre foarte tristă azi. Un copil de 5 ani din Romania a făcut stop

cardio-respirator după ce a înghițit jucăria din oul de ciocolată Kinder.

În anul 2016, o fetiță de 3 ani din Franța a murit după ce s-a înecat cu plasticul din oul Kinder. Din nou, în anul 2000 mai mulți părinții din UK au făcut o petiție prin care cereau ca oul Kinder să fie interzis în UE, dar se pare că s-a refuzat această dorință a părințiilor, din păcate.

În USA sunt interzise din 1938 deoarece nu se permite introducerea unor obiecte non-nutritive în dulciuri.

În Chile oul cu surprize și Happy Meal sunt interzise. Ei vor copii sănătoși, mâncare sănătoasă fără a da obezitate copiilor.

Dacă cumpăram acest ou de ciocolată, ar trebui să ținem cont de jucăria minusculă care ar putea oricând să fie înghițită de copil, accidental sau din pură curiozitate o pune în guriță. Eu vă recomand să renunțați la acest ou cu surprize căruia nu-i văd nici-o parte benefică, plus jucărioara este din plastic, se rupe rapid, nu are calitate, e minusculă și plus copilul se plictisește de jucărie în mai puțin de 5 min, vă garantez.

****Acest articol nu are intenția de a defăima imaginea producătorului.

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Unimaginable

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Some families still live in unimaginable ways. Even though we are in the year 2021
The family I am talking today is formed of a widowed Mom and 4 little kids. They live in a high rate of poverty, don’t have their own house (living with a mom’s sister) and their income is low as Mom is not working because she has to take care of the children.

Sometimes the good fairy sends some money or food. But they need a little house to call it theirs otherwise they have no stability and the fear that tomorrow will end up on the streets.
The authorities can’t help or do want to. They practically do not care. In Romania, in the rural area, the poverty rate is 34%.


Now, let’s think of their near future, what are they going to be, can they answer the question ”what do you want to be when you grow up”?
They can’t answer for sure!


They might think from where and when the next meal will come or if tomorrow their aunt will kick them out, which is a huge probability.
I am trying to help and give them a future and HOPE. If you wanna be part of it, please donate whatever you can or share with other people.
Do you want more pictures or info? Get in touch with me.

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4 ways to boost children’s self esteem

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ― Margaret Mead

Self-esteem is feeling proud, resilient, good, happy about yourself. Children usually absorb the level of self-esteem from their parents, as the parents are the mirror for them.

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Here are 4 ways to boost their self-esteem.

  1. Praise – is very important to be eyes and ears in what and how your child is doing and always communicate with the child, tell them you appreciate their hard work after an exam had the place, tell them that the result doesn’t matter as you know they did a great job. Or you have noticed a good change in their behaviour, he/she does the washing up, why not praising (try not to be fake).

2. Give compliments – Especially with young people is a bit of a tricky situation because once they start school, their social life is expanding and they might take in consideration some wrong opinions or bad role models. Giving compliments from an early age is the key to boost their confidence in themselves. Remind them how beautiful, special and unique they are. You can play a game with them by asking to give 2 compliments to you and you will share the compliments too.

Build positive relationships with your children – work might be tiring for you, you feel like you are drained after hard work and you come home and the child is asking you to play together. What do you do?

Well, if your answer is: Sorry baby, I am tired.

Or: Sure, let’s say what you are doing here, have you done this lego tower today? I am a bit tired from work, but I will play with you for 10 minutes. The child can understand you and you just build a positive relationship with the child.

Respect your child’s feelings by listening and talking with them.

3. Unconditional love – Just knowing that you love and support them, will increase their self-esteem. Let your child know that you will always love him/her unconditionally, no matter what happened. Give hugs say I love you often.

4. Be careful when correcting your child’s behaviour – Do not yell, criticise or blame the child in front of their friends, public spaces, not even at home. Do it calmly and give a reasonable explanation. Help the child understand their actions.

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Child grooming

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Today I want to talk about grooming. What is grooming?

Grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, abuse, exploit them.

Anybody can be a groomer, no matter their social status, gender, age, race.

Child grooming refers to an act of deliberately establishing an emotional connection with a child to prepare the kid for child abuse.

There are 6 stages of sexual grooming

  1. Targeting a victim (the child)
  2. Gaining trust
  3. Filling a need
  4. Isolating the kid
  5. Sexual contact, inappropriate touching
  6. Maintaining control over the child, situation.

If you are a parent, make sure your child is protected from predators. Make sure that you have control over their social media network. A groomer can use the same games, apps, sites as young people.

Whether in person or online, groomers can use tactics like

Buying gifts

Giving the child attention

Taking the young person on holidays

Pretending to be younger.

Any child can be in danger or risk of being groomed. Boys, girls can be groomed.

If you know someone at risk of being groomed or have any concerns, always contact the local child protection services or the police.

Source (NSPCC)

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Child development milestones

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Developmental milestones are the skills that most children can do by a certain age.

At the age of 1 year the child should be able to do the following:

Communication skills

  • Points at objects
  • Makes more meaningful sounds e.g. no, mamma, cup, dadda…
  • Responds to own name

Physical

  • May take a few steps without holding on to you or things
  • Sits well and gets into sitting position alone
  • Pulls to stand from sitting position and can sit down again
  • Walks around furniture
  • May crawl or bottom shuffle
  • May stand alone
  • Help turn the pages of a book
  • Throw a small ball

If the child is not doing all of this, or just some of them, DO NOT WORRY! Every child is different, special, and they develop at different stages. If you are concerned about your child, you can always address to your GP, a health visitor. Never compare your child with your neighbour’s, sister’s, your enemy, your brother’s, they are all different and none has the same DNA.

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POSITIVE PARENTING

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What is positive parenting?
Positive parenting builds healthier relationships between parents and their children. It gives the parents the tools they need to use at the right time, is also focused on developing a strong committed bond with the children based on respect and communication.
Some studies show that children with parents that care and take the parenting classes are much happier and open to talk about their problems with their parents.
Being a positive parent means:
To set boundaries
To be responsive
To care and to act
To prioritise the time you spent with children
Be honest
Listen

Be a good role model#

And the list can continue.

If you need help with you parenting styles, let me know.

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