Helpful tips - Parenting Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Tip is for face wiping. It's an unpleasant experience. But if you just touch their face with the cloth and go, better! And they're like, they want, they're happy you're making progress. They want to look better. And so they're like, they'll stand there if they think it's working. But if you just go like, wait, no, oh, there's more. Oh, it still looks bad. Oh, no, this is a disaster. Let's keep working. No, it's still there. They're like, this is going to go on forever and I'm never going to look good. So let's just quit now. Anyway, it makes it a very pleasant experience.
Video 2 Transcript
For those of you that have a fussy baby, I recently have been doing a lot of research about that and I found the five S's of soothing and it's swaddling, side-lying, sucking, swinging, there's one more, and sound, so like white noise or something like that.
Video 3 Transcript
If a kid asks for something and I, like, I don't want to give it to them, instead of saying, now! Because then they might convince me and they might have a really good argument. And sometimes, and I like to teach my children to be persuasive and think about things from the other person's point of view, so I sometimes change my mind. But it's, you don't want to change your mind after you've said no, because then every time you say no, they'll be like, oh, mom doesn't really mean it. Anyways, instead of saying no, I say, that is not my plan. Can we go to the playground today? That's not my plan. Plans can be changed. But if it's important, like, can I eat ice cream for dinner? No.
Video 4 Transcript
I want to share with you a tip that I used when I was raising my six children. Again, I have three sons and three daughters. They are now 19 and 32. But one thing about it, we all want our kids to become the best version of themselves. And even we might have certain things that we want to see in our family. Doctors, lawyers, police officers, firemen. But one thing I did while raising my six children, I allowed them to dream and become whoever they wanted to be. My thing was, if you're going to be the janitor, you'd be the best janitor. If you're going to be the bus driver, you'd be the best at whatever it is, whether you're a baker, a lawyer, in the military. When we give them the freedom to be who they feel they're called to be, it opens up the door to so many unlimited possibilities. It gives them the freedom to be free, to be themselves.
Video 5 Transcript
Hey everyone, I am Dr. Latarsha Holden, Georgia and National Mother of the Year for 2020. I'm coming to you guys to share some parenting tips after raising six children. Now they're ages 19 to 32. I have three sons and three daughters. One thing I want to share is, I know in spite of our busy schedules, running businesses, going to school, that taking the time to get to know our children individually and loving them according to who they are can sometimes seem like an extra thing on our plate, but that was one of the reasons I had so much success with my six children. I took the time, even while we was homeless for four years, to learn their personalities and to love and nurture them according to who they were. I love all of them the same, but I treated them and nurtured them according to who their personalities were and that was a big, huge success for me in raising them.
Video 6 Transcript
When a kid is first learning how to do a chore, they do a bad job. If they know they do a bad job, it's hard to start. Why am I even doing something? I'm not going to do a good job, and you're just going to do it again after me. So try not to do it again after them. This is my phrase. You don't have to do it perfectly, you just have to do it. And then that will get them to do the job enough times that they get enough practice to actually get any crumbs off the floor. I think you should dump all of your Lego sets together and throw away the instructions.
Video 7 Transcript
Being a parent, honestly, is very trying. And I thought I was a patient person before becoming a parent, and I think I am. I'd like to consider myself a patient person, but man, toddlers and temper tantrums and kids arguing, it causes a lot of stress. And it is so easy. It's easier for me than I realize, and I get frustrated with myself to yell or to be upset. And so something that I've realized is it's okay to walk away. Sometimes you have to leave the kids alone or put them in their room, put them in a timeout, and you have to walk away and breathe. Sometimes the timeout is not just for them, it's for you. You have to breathe. You have to take a break and then come back, and both of you can be more level-headed.
Video 8 Transcript
Three concepts have been helpful for me for parenting but also in marriage is one, the idea of us each having a love tank that needs to be filled and if that isn't full it can exhibit itself in negative behavior. The other idea is the concept of there being five love languages, different love languages that we speak. Some of us are more touchy-feely, other of us just needs words of appreciation more often and so forth. I also really like the concept of there being soft startups or harsh startups so one of the things you can do to best strengthen your relationship I feel like is to focus on making the first minute or two of seeing someone extremely positive. You know when you see them jumping up for joy or being like, oh hey I'm so excited to see you, welcome home, you know things like that and not starting off negatively.
Video 9 Transcript
If your child doesn't want to eat anything, instead of forcing it onto them, instead of holding them down, simply start eating it yourself. They'll come jumping back and eat up the whole thing. It works easy as pie.
