Think carefully about what your child needs whenever you teach right from wrong. Study reveals 92% of high school students say they are satisfied with their own ethics and character, however 1/4 admit stealing within the last year. (Josephson Institute of Ethics) You gave your child the gift of life. Give your child character too. The method below provides you a 3-D Character Building Activity. I remember counselling with an overstressed mom who gave very small time to her daughter. The police caught 10-year old Jessica shoplifting not once but twice. Kids who steal while very young might be filling a hole in their hearts – insufficient time with their parents. Find out how Jessica’s mom utilized the Character Building Activity below to stop Jessica from becoming a habitual shoplifter.

3-D Activity: 

1.Discover – Jessica’s mom asked, listened very well, and found out how Jessica thought and felt. She found that Jessica did have a hole in her heart.

2.Decide – Jessica’s mom decided to assist Jessica alter her mind about stealing toys and candy to fill that hole.

3.Design -Jessica’s mom designed a strategy to fill her daughter’s heart with a caring relationship.
The Strategy:

Jessica’s mom trained Jessica how to make salads and start the dinner. When she came house from work, they continued making the meal with each other. While sharing this job, they chatted about their day. Jessica’s mom gave Jessica more praise, hugs, and kisses. They also drank bedtime tea together. How could these changes solve Jessica’s shoplifting problem?

The Change:

Jessica had felt cast aside, unimportant, and unloved before her mom took time with her. As her mom thought carefully about Jessica’s needs and used the 3-D Activity, Jessica became connected. When her mother took time to share, listen and do tasks together, Jessica’s heart filled with a bonding love. When her mom sipped bedtime tea along with her, Jessica ceased stealing candy and toys to make herself feel whole. Jessica’s a teen now, and to my understanding, she has not stolen since.

The Nutshell:

To think very carefully about what your child needs when you teach right from wrong:Understand how your child thinks and feels.
Determine what feelings and thoughts need enhancement.
Design a plan that assists your son or daughter grow.
Use this 3-D Character Building Activity often to insure your child becomes an individual of character and never a disappointing statistic.

There are a lot of things we look forward to when we prepare for a life of retirement and those “golden years” of being a senior citizen.  Of course, it takes a bit of getting used to transition to becoming granddad or grandma and no longer having all those stresses of job and family.  This is not to say that we don’t have our share of concerns as senior citizens.  

Along with the transition to a slower life, however, we also get a new set of things to worry about in our senior years.  Of course, your physical condition is something on your mind as your body ages.  Finances can be a concern and, as always, you worry about your kids and grandkids.  But one worry that sits at the back of the minds of many senior citizens that is the worry that some day your kids will put you in a nursing home.

The aversion to the very idea of going to a nursing home goes back decades, probably to the days when a nursing home was really the only alternative when a senior needed medical care daily.  It wasn’t that long that the phrase, “going to a nursing home” was equivalent of being put out to pasture to wait for death.  

Moreover, the real nightmare has always been that your own dear children would somehow become tired of caring for you and just “stick you in the nursing home” just to get old grandma and grandpa out of the way.  So we have the concept of a terrible living condition, loss of freedom, home and friends and rejection of family that builds up into a pretty horrible fear as you move into your golden years.

This is not to say that even today there are not some pretty horrible nursing homes out there.  And that occasional story about nursing home abuse that seems to get lots of space in the newspaper don’t help our worries one little bit.  

The good news, though, is that today there are a lot more options available to senior citizens for finding a place to live after you leave  your home where you can get some care but not have to endure the nightmare scenario of a nursing home.  In the last ten to twenty years, the field of elder care has undergone what can only be described as a revolution.  Now, instead of nursing homes as your only option, there are assisted care facilities, managed care and senior apartment communities where you can continue to live a life of freedom, creativity and independence but still have as much care as you need and only when you need it.

An assisted care facility can work almost exactly like an apartment complex or condominium.  Depending on what kind of care you need, the directors of assisted care facilities can custom design how much care you need and nothing more.  But they can take a lot of the daily chores off of your mind so you can really enjoy your golden years.  Typically an assisted care facility will do your laundry, provide for food and help with special diets if your doctor needs that and provide the security both for your safety and that you have people around to look in on you should a problem come up.

This can be a tremendous relief to family and to you that you never have to worry about falling and not having help.  The staff at your assisted care home are there to help you and support you as much as you need when you need it but when you don’t need them around, they disappear into the woodwork so you can live a happy independent life until you need them again.

There are medical people on call should you need them and the great thing about these facilities is that if you need more care over the years, they can gradually add those services on an as needed basis and you never have to move out or change your lifestyle.  This truly is the best of both worlds because you can live as independently as you can but have help there on call when you need them to be there.  Above all an assisted care is your home.  It’s a place of friendship and social interaction.  But the one thing you can say about it with certainty is that it is NOT a nursing home.

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