I learned a valuable lesson this weekend from my mother and that is that you are never too old learn, especially when you are a new parent.

I should start this off by stating that my mother has been a elementary school teacher for 44 years, so she knows a little more about children than I do.  So, while I was feeding the boys the other night, one kept dropping food on the floor and I kept repeating the word No to him. And then he did something else and I said No again. After a few minutes, my mother spoke up and said to me, that it would be better than telling them No all the time, to say “we do not drop food on the floor” or “we do not hit our brother”. And it got me thinking, it makes sense. At some point, the boys will grow numb to the word No if they hear it all the time.

I am really trying to make it a point to now, explain what they are doing or why we do not do something, instead of just saying No.  It is a hard habit to break, but thus far, they seemed to have responded thus far.