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featuring Parenting Advice, Child
Care and Child Raising Advice. Sara
not only has children and grand
children, but also has a degree in
Psychology, a masters degree in
Family Counseling and was a family
specialist in Lousville, Ky for more
than 10 years.
featuring Parenting Advice, Child
Care and Child Raising Advice. Sara
not only has children and grand
children, but also has a degree in
Psychology, a masters degree in
Family Counseling and was a family
specialist in Lousville, Ky for more
than 10 years.
Dear Sara answers parenting and child raising
questions from readers, new columns are
posted on Mondays and Thursdays, this column
was published June 25, 2009
Dear Sara,
My son and his wife Kelly have been
married 10 years and have 2
beautiful girls ages 5 and 7. We live
in the same city so I get to see them
often. My son will make them
behave when he is around but he
travels with his job and is gone a
couple of weeks a month.
My daughter-in-law seems to have
no idea how to discipline the girls
and just lets them run wild. The
house is a mess and the kids have
no schedule except for school. How
can I get Kelly to pay more attention
to the girls and give them some
guidance and discipline?
Julia
Dear Julia,
Kelly seems to be on her own with the
girls quite a bit. For the most part, we
learn our parenting skills from our
parents, so she may not have had
any good role models. Another
problem could be that she has
attention deficit disorder and has a
problem getting her act together.
Whatever the problem is, her girls
need some guidance. I suspect that
she is overwhelmed with trying to do
all the parenting chores by herself
especially if she is poorly equipped to
do this on her own.
Since you live close by, you could give
Kelly a break and take the girls for a
weekend or overnight as often as
you can. She could probably also use
some help when it comes to
transporting the girls to their activities
and to their friends homes for
overnight.
You can’t really take over the
parenting and organization of the
household chores for Kelly but if you
see her doing something right give
her lots of praise. If you have a really
good relationship with Kelly you could
make some suggestions but she may
not be open to anything that she
considers criticism.
You are right to be concerned but if
you want to maintain a good
relationship with her and have some
oversight of your granddaughters,
you will have to proceed with caution.
Your best bet is to be supportive and
helpful but not to interfere unless you
feel the girls might be in danger.
Good luck.
Sara
questions from readers, new columns are
posted on Mondays and Thursdays, this column
was published June 25, 2009
Dear Sara,
My son and his wife Kelly have been
married 10 years and have 2
beautiful girls ages 5 and 7. We live
in the same city so I get to see them
often. My son will make them
behave when he is around but he
travels with his job and is gone a
couple of weeks a month.
My daughter-in-law seems to have
no idea how to discipline the girls
and just lets them run wild. The
house is a mess and the kids have
no schedule except for school. How
can I get Kelly to pay more attention
to the girls and give them some
guidance and discipline?
Julia
Dear Julia,
Kelly seems to be on her own with the
girls quite a bit. For the most part, we
learn our parenting skills from our
parents, so she may not have had
any good role models. Another
problem could be that she has
attention deficit disorder and has a
problem getting her act together.
Whatever the problem is, her girls
need some guidance. I suspect that
she is overwhelmed with trying to do
all the parenting chores by herself
especially if she is poorly equipped to
do this on her own.
Since you live close by, you could give
Kelly a break and take the girls for a
weekend or overnight as often as
you can. She could probably also use
some help when it comes to
transporting the girls to their activities
and to their friends homes for
overnight.
You can’t really take over the
parenting and organization of the
household chores for Kelly but if you
see her doing something right give
her lots of praise. If you have a really
good relationship with Kelly you could
make some suggestions but she may
not be open to anything that she
considers criticism.
You are right to be concerned but if
you want to maintain a good
relationship with her and have some
oversight of your granddaughters,
you will have to proceed with caution.
Your best bet is to be supportive and
helpful but not to interfere unless you
feel the girls might be in danger.
Good luck.
Sara