Teaching Our Children

A parent's responsibility is to love, protect, teach, and guide their children into becoming independent, productive, adults. The sad thing is so many people don't take any thought about bring a child into this very challenging world and what it takes to being a parent in 2010. For the next week I'm going to write about things that need to be addressed from ages 1-8 years old. These ages are the most important in developing the character and social well being of a child. I hope it will assist you on your journey of good parenting or grand-parenting.

I hope that you are planning on keeping your children engaged academically over the summer break. A good program should include plenty of physical activity, academic enrichment, and nutritionally balanced meals. If the summer program your child is in is strictly physical activities, make sure he/she is reading or being read to at night for 15-30 minutes for young children and 30-60 minutes for older children. You can purchase reasonable activities books for whatever grade level your child is going to or if he/she needs to improve on last years skills, get the activity book for the grade just completed. Just require they work in the book for 20-30 minutes and then let them read. Try to check their work and make sure they are completing it correctly and neatly. Don't let them get away with doing substandard work. It will make all the difference for the coming school year.

Make sure you and your child enjoy the summer break. Do something special and create memories!