Life's Whirlwind Adventures

Being a parent is a very unselfish act.   To be a good parent you must do many things for your child in spite of your own wants and needs.   You must be willing to put those little ones first for the rest of your life regardless of what you want.   This is not a bad thing; it’s a reality check. However, it is sometimes necessary to be a little selfish and to do things for you. I have worked with many parents over the past year, in different capacities as a friend, a teacher and family development worker.   The one thing I have noticed is that the selfish parents are often the parents that find they have the most trouble dealing with their offspring.   Parents that refuse to acknowledge addiction issues, parents that treat their children like their friends first, parents that do not discipline their children and parents that are too busy with their own lives to bother with their children are the parents that are raising children who act out in school, act ou...

So when I first decided to start writing this blog I had an idea in my head of what I wanted the blog to entail. It stemmed from my belief in the teaching field and my beliefs in parenting. These beliefs include rewarding children for positive behaviour and not spending much time on negative behaviour, basically the scale should be more time spent rewarding good behaviour and less time penalizing bad behaviour. Children should not be punished but taught how to be disciples of positive behaviour. We can't expect children to know how to behave unless we teach them how to behave properly in various situations. It is the foundation to having a well run classroom, and having well behaved children. I think that if we took this philosophy and applied it to the world at large the world could be changed into a better place. I wanted a place to blog about those positive stories, those stories that show the world to be a great place, and that's what I am going to be working on, hope...