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Squeegee B
I babysit for this family quite often. Their kids are 7, 5, and 2. I always bring games, activities, videos, and books for them so they don't ever get bored while I'm there. (All 3 kids are boys!)Normally I do "themed" nights (We've had Baseball Night- play baseball, eat hotdogs for dinner, and watch a baseball movie. We've had 4th of July- fireworks craft and make cookies with red, white, and blue icing. We've had the Olympics Night and so on...) I'm kind of running out of ideas and activities and games to bring. Normally I'm there at night for 2 or 3 hours (7-10 pm) and the 2 year old is asleep by 7:45 and the other kids go to bed at 9:00... What are some more activities I can bring or games we can play that will be fun for them???
Take into consideration that they really don't like to play games that involve competition... One of them always loses and cries.
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Well, first, congratulations on coming up with "themed" nights. That sounds like fun!
They're still pretty young, which severely limits how much you can do, but let me see...
Bugs Night...Watch A Bug's Life and make "Ants on Log" (Celery, Peanut Butter, Raisins) and/or "Worms" (Crumbled Oreo cookies, Gummy Worms). For a craft, you could make little insect toys/dolls.
Race Car Night... Watch Herbie the Love Bug (or equivalent) and have them make their own race cars out of cardboard boxes so that they can race - non-competitively- around the yard. You could make car-shaped cookies.
If they have a favorite TV show, you could do a night based on that. For example...Wiggles Night. Have a Wiggles marathon and make crafts and recipes based on what they watch (fruit salad jumps to mind).
I hope that helped inspire you!
EDIT: Okay, I've thought of a couple more.
Camping Night...Set up a tent and sleeping bags in the living room. Eat hot dogs, s'mores, and tell "scary" stories around the campfire, I mean, flashlight. Perhaps when their parents get back they can join them down there.
Healthy Night...A night where you teach them about the Food Pyramid, and they learn what various parts of the body do (heart, lungs, etc.). I'm sure there are movies out there about it. They could have an impromptu "teddy bear clinic." Have them help you put together a balanced meal.
Well, first, congratulations on coming up with "themed" nights. That sounds like fun!
They're still pretty young, which severely limits how much you can do, but let me see...
Bugs Night...Watch A Bug's Life and make "Ants on Log" (Celery, Peanut Butter, Raisins) and/or "Worms" (Crumbled Oreo cookies, Gummy Worms). For a craft, you could make little insect toys/dolls.
Race Car Night... Watch Herbie the Love Bug (or equivalent) and have them make their own race cars out of cardboard boxes so that they can race - non-competitively- around the yard. You could make car-shaped cookies.
If they have a favorite TV show, you could do a night based on that. For example...Wiggles Night. Have a Wiggles marathon and make crafts and recipes based on what they watch (fruit salad jumps to mind).
I hope that helped inspire you!
EDIT: Okay, I've thought of a couple more.
Camping Night...Set up a tent and sleeping bags in the living room. Eat hot dogs, s'mores, and tell "scary" stories around the campfire, I mean, flashlight. Perhaps when their parents get back they can join them down there.
Healthy Night...A night where you teach them about the Food Pyramid, and they learn what various parts of the body do (heart, lungs, etc.). I'm sure there are movies out there about it. They could have an impromptu "teddy bear clinic." Have them help you put together a balanced meal.
How to build confidence in my dogs who have become anxious since daughter was born?
Megan
If this is even the issue. We have two pit bulls that we rescued about 4 years ago. They are wonderful family members and we love them to pieces. Since our daughter was born, 15 months ago, we are noticing they scare easy by quick movements or loud voices. Even just a stern but calm correction makes them nervous. It kills me to see them not happy like they used to be, and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. We do spend less time with them one on one, but they are still with us always, trips to the grocery store, sleep in our bed, always in which ever room we are in. It's very obvious things changed since our daughter became vocal and mobile. She runs and screams and I am afraid they are unhappy. I never want to find them a new home that would be devastating but I want what is best for them. I can teach our daughter to respect them, and them to respect her, as she gets older but what about when we have more kids. How can I teach them that this new noisy thing running around is harmless, so we can be a VERY happy family again. My worst anxiety is that they will mistake her quick movements and loudness as a threat and nip at her.
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Thank you for supporting the most misunderstood breed in America. This will not be an easy fix but if it works you get the reward of seeing all your kids, human and k-9, playing and happy. Fear leads to aggression which leads to you or your baby girl getting hurt. First teach your daughter that the dog are her friends. Teach her how to give the dogs treats by first having her and the dogs in the same room, and having her take treats and put the on the floor so the dog learn to associate her with good thing like food. At meal times have your daughter take put the food bowls down for them to build trust and good association. Working on doing this with one dog at time will keep your daughter calmer too. Then try crate training. What to do is get two large cages, and place them in a room your daughter doesn't go in much. Leave treats, water and toys in there for them and try to show them that the crate is their place that they can always go and be safe when it gets to fast of loud. Never use the crate as a punishment. It negates the purpose. Next give them things like dog toys with your daughters sent and they will eventually get use to her sent as family not an intruder. After the get comfortably have your daughter begin to be around them at night before bed when everyone is tired and she is more quiet. Make it a routine to sit with your daughter and dogs on the floor before bed every night for about 15-20 mins. Have the a safe distance between your daughter and the dogs, about 5 feet or so, and just have them become use to each other. After the seem to be more comfortable with her, call the dog over and just pet them while she is on your lap or you could do this in her room while she is sleeping close enough for the dogs to see her. Once use to this, have your daughter on your lap, call them over and have her hold out her hand for them to smell. Tell her the dog just want to be friends and try to make it so she doesn't get scared. Then once they come up and smell her, teach her how to just put her hand on their heads and gently pet them on the head. Eventually this will build trust between your daughter and the dogs and they will learn to view her as a good thing. Work slowly because if she makes to much noise or moves to fast, you might need to start all over again. Even if you do this with only one dog, they both will come around because dogs are pack animals. Hope I helped you and you have a happy family once again.
Thank you for supporting the most misunderstood breed in America. This will not be an easy fix but if it works you get the reward of seeing all your kids, human and k-9, playing and happy. Fear leads to aggression which leads to you or your baby girl getting hurt. First teach your daughter that the dog are her friends. Teach her how to give the dogs treats by first having her and the dogs in the same room, and having her take treats and put the on the floor so the dog learn to associate her with good thing like food. At meal times have your daughter take put the food bowls down for them to build trust and good association. Working on doing this with one dog at time will keep your daughter calmer too. Then try crate training. What to do is get two large cages, and place them in a room your daughter doesn't go in much. Leave treats, water and toys in there for them and try to show them that the crate is their place that they can always go and be safe when it gets to fast of loud. Never use the crate as a punishment. It negates the purpose. Next give them things like dog toys with your daughters sent and they will eventually get use to her sent as family not an intruder. After the get comfortably have your daughter begin to be around them at night before bed when everyone is tired and she is more quiet. Make it a routine to sit with your daughter and dogs on the floor before bed every night for about 15-20 mins. Have the a safe distance between your daughter and the dogs, about 5 feet or so, and just have them become use to each other. After the seem to be more comfortable with her, call the dog over and just pet them while she is on your lap or you could do this in her room while she is sleeping close enough for the dogs to see her. Once use to this, have your daughter on your lap, call them over and have her hold out her hand for them to smell. Tell her the dog just want to be friends and try to make it so she doesn't get scared. Then once they come up and smell her, teach her how to just put her hand on their heads and gently pet them on the head. Eventually this will build trust between your daughter and the dogs and they will learn to view her as a good thing. Work slowly because if she makes to much noise or moves to fast, you might need to start all over again. Even if you do this with only one dog, they both will come around because dogs are pack animals. Hope I helped you and you have a happy family once again.
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