Blog Hop: Three Things Every Parent Should Teach Their Kids
Posted By Melissa on September 28, 2009
Disclaimer: This is not a list of the MOST IMPORTANT, so do not feel like you must list the highest priority or the obvious, which will end up having the same thing repeated by everyone over and over. Try to be specific and creative. This your three items with a sentence or two explanation.
1. Every parent should teach their kids how to get a bowl of cereal and turn on the TV on Saturday mornings so said parents can get an hour (or couple hours) of extra sleep. We’ve been doing it for over a year now with our 6 and 4 year old and IT ROCKS!
2. Every parent should teach their kids American Sign Language (ASL). Our biological kids signed at around 7 months. Ty learned 3 signs in his first 10 days home. I can’t even begin to fathom how many tantrums we’ve avoided because our kids could communicate basic wants early on. (As a side note: PJ and Mia were early talkers so it did not squash their verbal skills).
3. Every parent should teach their kids how to read a map. I know it’s probably a dying skill with all this GPS stuff, but come on. Teaching them to read trail markers falls in this catergory as well.
Special thanks to Shoplet.com-Purell Hand Sanitizers for sponsoring this blog hop.
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