Where to start...

Making a chicken marinade with Uncle Brad :) 

I wanted to begin writing...but where to start?  I'm not sure, but I can always go back...and...rearrange, delete...edit.  If there's one theme that seems to keeps popping up all the time, relating to child-rearing and my own personal life, it's...PERSPECTIVE.  Perspective, perspective, perspective.  When it comes to people, everything revolves around our perspective.  As adults, we unfortunately create and determine our own.  When we were just little squirts, our parents (hopefully) helped us by creating a perspective that would help us make choices that were best for us.

There are MANY things we want our kids to do.  That is...for their own good.... for their health, for their happiness...for EVERYONE'S happiness in the house!  Often how we do this, is by changing their perspective.  This is how I get my kids to eat their vegetables, stay in bed at night, not throw tantrums, not pee in their pants, say please and thank you, sit down in the grocery cart, and listen to me when I tell them it's time to leave the park.  In our house, there are no 'tricks' to good behavior.  Apart from altering our little angels' thoughts about what might be a good idea and what might NOT be, in these pre-toddler and toddler stages, we have found it best to stick to a few rules as parents, which are...CONSISTENCY and SIMPLICITY.  Whether you realize it or not, your kids love these two things.  Apply it to anything and everything, and it will NOT fail you!