In Our "Terrible" Teens... -------------------------------------- * Why? Because I said so that's why! * I would have never talked to MY mother like that! * Look at me when I'm talking to you. * I wasn't born yesterday you know. * After all I've done for you, and this is thanks I get? * You'd better wipe that smile off your face before I do! * Don't look at me in that tone of voice! * You can't find it? Well, where did you leave it last? * I'm not here just for your entertainment. * If you opened your eyes as wide as your mouth, you'd be able to find it! * I don't embarrass you, do I? * As long as you live under my roof, you'll do as I say. * I'm not just talking to hear my own voice. * How can you sleep in an unmade bed?

Now we're older... We find ourselves sometimes too busy to enjoy time we used to have with our moms. If you can get to see her do it. If not be sure to phone! Maybe buy her a gift... If your mom is no longer with you, I hope this brings some fun memories.

Send this article to 3 or more friends, bring a smile to their face and remind them to thank their mom... this UK Mother's Day - Sunday March 6th.

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These examples give us a variety of ways to spend time with our children. We can join them in what they are doing, invite them to join in what we are doing, or do something alongside them, in parallel, talking together or just being quiet together.

Special Time for Each One. Each child in family needs to have special time with each parent. It doesn’t have to be a vast amount of time, or have to happen every day. But each of our children is different, and will want to have a chance to be alone with each of us. When you get right down to it sibling rivalry is competition for parents’ attention. Individual “special” time given to each child can lead to a lot less fighting among them.

Quality Time Quality time is term that was developed to meet working parent’s main problem, not being able to spend as much time as you would like at home. The idea of quality time is that it’s not how much time we spend with our children that matters, but what we do with time we have with our children. Spending quality time means giving them our wholehearted attention, and ensuring it is constructive, productive time spent actively doing things with them. It is an important concept but we need to remember it has some limitations. By considering these limitations we can make better use of quality time. The problem with this is that it doesn’t take into consideration moods and feelings. Instead of doing something active, playing or going somewhere, our child may just feel like being quiet with us, curling up and just being together. This can be just as important to our relationship with our children as active communication. Another problem is that quality time is often scheduled. If we can’t be there at that unpredictable moment when our child decides to tell us about something schedule falls short. By time we get home need may have passed. To show that we understand and to help, especially younger children, remember that there was something they wanted to tell us, we need to have a plan in place for these situations. For older children it may be as easy as a special place for a note. For younger children we can make it into a game. They might have a special stuffed animal that they leave in a certain place to let us know there was something they wanted to share. You can invent your own system. Some quality time could be spent devising system.

“Being there” or spending time with our children doesn’t mean twenty-four-hour availability. It just means offering them some flexibility on access to meet special circumstances and listening to them when they ask for it. The results of time spent with our children is special love and happiness in relationship we dreamed about before we ever had them. Our children are precious. The amount of time that they are children is short. If we make good use of this short time we have, we do our jobs as parents to raise happy healthy kids.