Parenting With Patience Quotes

“Luckily, children’s memories don’t start much before four years of age, which is Mother Nature’s way of forgiving parents during those really tough years of parenting small children.”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps

“Sometimes children need about ten or twenty minutes of your focused time to fill up on attention and will then leave you alone for some time to yourself.”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps

“Preschoolers 3 to 5 years Preoperational stage Physical • Can jump, kick, swing, skip, hop, run, and throw balls • Shows intense facial expressions • Can empty wastebaskets, bring in groceries, mop a floor, spray-clean surfaces, vacuum, pick up socks and library books,”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps

“Once, when my daughter was 17, she rolled her eyes at me when I made a request. It was such a rare event, that I asked her, “What was that?” She replied, “Mom, that’s my EYE-statement!”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps

“Most children stop hitting when they become teenagers. They learn to use their words instead. Then they discover the power of swear words!”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps

“According to Dr. Otto Weinenger, author of Time-In Parenting, children up to seven years of age most often don’t know why they are in time-out. They just know that Mommy or Daddy is mad! Even if they know they did something to cause the time-out, they don’t have the self-control developed yet to stop doing it. Dr. Weininger states that most children don’t have the reflective skills required for time-out, that we may think they do, until age seven. Those reflective skills include the big questions of, “What have I done to be here?” “What was my part in the problem?” “What can I do to make things better?” Those are all questions we hope our timed-out children ask themselves, yet often they are just thinking, “I’m so mad at Mom,” “I’m going to get even with my sibling when I get out, and this time I won’t get caught,” “This is so unfair,” and “I hate myself and the whole world.” (Weininger, 2002)”
― Judy Arnall, Parenting With Patience: Turn Frustration Into Connection With 3 Easy Steps