As every birthday passes, the years seem to be streaking by at warp speed. Five-month-olds become 5-year-olds in the blink of an eye, and then 15-year-olds. This inexorable march of time that turns babies into big kids is the "other" biological clock facing young couples. Every day brings new growth, new milestones, and new wonderment, but the challenges of juggling our adult lives often prevent us from fully appreciating the delicate nuances of childhood.When you add up all the time your kids spend at day care, school, asleep, at friends' homes, with babysitters, at camp, and otherwise occupied with activities that don't include you, the remaining moments become especially precious. There are only 940 Saturdays between a child's birth and her leaving for college. That may sound like a lot, but how many have you already used up? If your child is 5 years old, 260 Saturdays are gone. Poof! And the older your kids get, the busier their Saturdays are with friends and activities. Ditto Sundays. And what about weekdays? Depending on your children's ages and whether you work outside the home, there may be as few as one or two hours a day during the week for you to spend with them.
Reference:How to Spend More Quality Time With Your Child, By Harley A. Rotbart, M.D. from Parents Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/positive/quality-time/
Accept their feelings of disgust. There's evidence that moral disgust may develop from our early aversion to icky food. In that case, encouraging a kid to express his gross-outs could make it more likely he'll speak out against injustice as a grown-up.
Tips for Teaching Children About Fairness
It's probably a mix of nature and nurture that develops our sense of fairness. Try these tips to help your kids understand fair play.
Empower them. Despite our brains having an innate capacity to evaluate what's right, "we certainly teach our kids about fairness; there's definitely a component we learn early on, Help kids develop this ability by asking questions, such as, "Was that fair? Why or why not?"
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Explain and practice. Even if the sense of fairness is rooted in our emotions, we still use judgment to make complex moral decisions. As your kids grow up -- and their brains develop -- continue to point out more sophisticated examples of sharing, as well as injustice.
Teaching Children to be Fair.By Susan Kuchinskas, WebMD Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/teaching-children-to-be-fair
