tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post2288922161763631724..comments2023-06-28T19:55:39.045+10:00Comments on Three Times Kewl: New feeling wordAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06960199428417526306noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-36246674606796930952008-02-23T01:19:00.000+10:002008-02-23T01:19:00.000+10:00I remember when my sister was angry with her sonm ...I remember when my sister was angry with her sonm who was just a preschool kiddo, and she was expressing this to him in a very tired-mother way. He looked at her with a quivering lip and tearfilled eyes and said, "Now you've done it...now you've hurt my little feelers." <BR/><BR/>My sister pulled up short and stared, burst out laughing. Jim is grown and married and a soldier, but for all these Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-47074811671876210982008-02-15T13:32:00.000+10:002008-02-15T13:32:00.000+10:00Thanks Megan :-)I teach these kinds of skills in s...Thanks Megan :-)<BR/>I teach these kinds of skills in schools and around the place, and I've found that role modeling is probably one of the most powerful tools to assist learning. <BR/>Teaching the girls emotional intelligence makes my job as their mum so much easier, too! Tantrums are easier to avoid when we can communicate how we're feeling, even if the words aren't always there yet.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06960199428417526306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-37506370047747077922008-02-15T07:56:00.000+10:002008-02-15T07:56:00.000+10:00Allison I really love that you put into practice w...Allison I really love that you put into practice what we try to encourage parents to do. I'll link to this post at some stage because you so beautifully showed how easy it is to do - it is not the fact that the little one could not answer, but that you modelled such excellent communication and emotional intelligence to her. Congrats to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-87049740223672596832008-02-14T15:48:00.000+10:002008-02-14T15:48:00.000+10:00I think tiredness had a lot to do with it. I think...I think tiredness had a lot to do with it. I think she was a bit out on overload and in need of some space, too. "Silent" was probably code for, 'I've had enough of talking and playing and I need some down time'.<BR/>I didn't laugh at the time, woohoo!<BR/>I said that it was OK to not want to talk sometimes, that she could have a rest now and that we would talk later.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06960199428417526306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-19555626881219662282008-02-14T13:48:00.000+10:002008-02-14T13:48:00.000+10:00Oh dear....I wonder what the emotion that goes wit...Oh dear....I wonder what the emotion that goes with that is? Tired?<BR/>Did you laugh or were you able to keep it together?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6781657813315783489.post-85303882200992066292008-02-10T22:13:00.000+10:002008-02-10T22:13:00.000+10:00ha ha - you asked!!!ha ha - you asked!!!jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17322709527738134797noreply@blogger.com