The Basic Four

Any day with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children, tweeners and teens is consumed with a myriad of situations.

When you look carefully, all of the experiences coming your way in interactions with your children, issues in their lives, falls into one of four categories:

Sleep
Tears and Tantrums
Self Discipline                      and
Self Care

Parenting can made a little simpler by assigning the situation to one of those four categories.

Homework issues, friend connections and trials, practices, chores, moanies, screen time debates...whatever the issue, stop yourself and ask, "To which category is the underlying issue related?"

Start there. Then explore the possibilities for resolution.

Try it. It might help.