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Christie Barnes Positive Parenting Blog
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Christie's World - Positive Parenting Tips & Advice from a Single Mother of Triplets Plus One!
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New Year’s Resolutions: Dumb Things Parents Need to Stop Doing

We parents are super smart these days. With endless information available to us on the web, we are probably the best informed parents of all time. Or we should be. Unfortunately, we as people still l...

31 dec 11

Child role models with work ethics, generosity, self-reliance …Brace yourself…Pageant girls….

I think we may be looking in the wrong places for kids with a work ethic, manners, realistic self-esteem, responsibility for their own destiny, feeling for others, generosity…..PAGEANTS 230;....

15 nov 11

Chores: Do positive parents make their children do chores?

Do you make your children do chores? I have received comments from Positive Parents who say kids should not do chores until they are nine. Others say kids should as young as two? Children chores? Do ...

17 oct 11

Kindergarten Separation Anxiety Facts: School Dangers

Kindergarten parents, how are you coping with separation anxiety? Who cries more at school drop off? You or your child? What are you worried about? Some children will cry for an hour all year. A frie...

20 sep 11

Summer Safety Tips and Games: Hot Day Child Danger Alert and Hot Weather Child Safety Tips

The temperature is in the triple digits. It is over 100 degrees. Here are some important reminders from Paranoid Parents for summer safety. Hot weather safety tips: Don’t shed the clothes even if you...

24 jul 11

Summer Safety Tips and Safety Games: What child danger do we forget to plan for every time?

You have spent days planning the great fun day at the theme park, or a walk on a ‘history’ trail followed by Paul Revere, or a whole day at the beach. You have taken the day off or this is one of the...

11 jul 11

Summer Safety Tips and Summer Safety Games: Teaching Little Boys Not to Drown

It is so easy to let summer safety tips go in one ear and out the other. Our local television stations are running summer kid safety tips, expensively produced, that say the same things: wear sunscre...

04 jun 11

Summer Safety Tips and Summer Safety Games: The Number One Amusement Park Danger

In our Paranoid Parents Summer Series on Summer Safety Tips and Summer Safety Games, we try to give parents fun ways to keep kids safe in the summer. They are safer at school than with us; it just do...

31 may 11

Summer Safety Tips and Summer Safety Games: Making Summer Kids Safety Fun

Here are ten days of ten summer safety tips with fun activities to take care of them so we parents won’t look like we are nagging. Sometimes we will have to be the ‘poop in the punch̵...

29 may 11

Child Safety Dangers–Gasoline Cans: Teaching Kids Safety Common Sense

The news has been pointing out the increasing number of home fires caused by storing gasoline in gasoline cans in the garage. This is exactly the kind of child safety dangers that the news should cov...

24 may 11

Positive Parenting Tips–Surviving the Ceremonies, Recitals, Graduations: Kids, Tell Me Five Other N...

The end of the school year brings endless ceremonies, recitals, performances, awards and graduations. It is hard enough getting to each and every event without the overlapping of events. It can be st...

15 may 11

Moms Worry Less: Mother’s Day Positive Parenting Gift Download

Wouldn’t the greatest Mother’s Day gift for mom be to stop worrying? Well, that probably just isn’t going to happen. Sometimes we don’t feel like we are good parents if we are...

07 may 11

Do you worry when your child is going to camp? How to make kids’ camping a safe adventure

What are the safest kids’ camps? I wish I could give you an answer. My ‘parenting expert’ territory is knowing the statistics of what really happens and then using those to parent f...

30 apr 11

Positive Parenting Tips: Kids, Be Someone Else for the Weekend

This is one of the Paranoid Parent blog series of Spring Break and Summer parent rescue activities. For Tantrum Taming, for long-wait blues, for unplugging your android children from devices such as ...

21 apr 11

Positive Parenting Tips–Right now, kids, hit the dirt and make like a flipped turtle

This is one of the Paranoid Parent blog series of Spring Break parent rescue activities. For Tantrum Taming, for long-wait blues, for unplugging your android children from devices such as your phone,...

17 apr 11

Parent Worries for Summer? Camping Kit Give-away online and at Denver Book Signing April 10, 2pm

Colorado Authors Series: Christie Barnes Sunday, April 10, 2 p.m. Schlessman Family Branch Library 100 Poplar St. 80220 Phone: 720-865-0000 What do you worry about most? Join me today at Denver’...

10 apr 11

Positive Parenting Tips–Right now, kids, take off your shoes and scrunch up your toes

This is one of the Paranoid Parent blog series of Spring Break parent rescue activities. For Tantrum Taming, for long-wait blues, for unplugging your android children from devices such as your phone,...

18 mar 11

First Step to Positive Parenting: Disasters and the Unexpected are the Norm–How to Stop Being Surpr...

Banish from your parent brain that any day will go smoothly. It could. And I am not trying to be a pessimist. But when you have kids “Stuff Happens”. However hard we try to be ready for e...

22 feb 11

Supermom Positive Parenting Through the Parent Stress of Science Fair: Do you do your kid’s homewor...

How much do you help with your child’s big projects? Positive parenting, that is, making your child do his own work can make you the “mean mom” or “mean dad of the neighborhoo...

02 feb 11

What are parenting skills—Advertisem ent for a Positive Parent with fine parenting skills

Here is a parent job description. Do you have the parenting skills to be a parent? Do you qualify? A parent is an algebra expert, waitress, cook, personal assistant, butler, valet, lady’s maid, clean...

11 dec 10

Welcome to Christie’s World – Positive Parenting Tips, Advice, and Realities from the Mother of Tri...

I thought that worrying was what parents did–and I was the expert worrier. I knew every possible danger and the best fix for it for my triplets plus one. I even had a bumper sticker made up: Pa...

11 dec 10

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