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Helping Out (2015 – A to Z Challenge)

10 Friday Apr 2015

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This is another good trait my kids are learning from me.  I am a very helping person by choice.  I like helping people and organizations due to the experience it brings me as well as the happiness it brings to others.

My oldest son likes helping out around the house as well as helping his friends out when they need help.  He had a kid in his class last year that didn’t really have any friends.  He went up to him and started talking to him at a recess one day.  They are best friends and now since my son did this, the other kid has more friends now.  This is the type of helping out he learned from my wife and I.

My other kids are starting to show this trait as well.  They are seeing us doing this trait and they are following in our footprints.  This makes me proud and happy to see this.  We need more helpful and kind people in the world.

Have you ever seen your kids do a helpful thing for another person without asking them?  What was the last helping thing you have done?  Feel free to leave your answer in the comments and I will respond to the questions you have.

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A to Z Challenge Letter H

Gaming Around (2015 – A to Z Challenge)

10 Friday Apr 2015

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This post will be a little different then my previous ones.  This was a harder one to write as well.  This will still deal with my kids as well as advice or prevention for others that has to deal with this issue.  I apologize now for the title being misleading, but would you even read this post if it was named Game Addiction.

Game addiction is no different than any other addiction out there except it doesn’t cause death to you unless you are playing games on your phone or even text while driving which I hope you don’t do.

This is a real addiction for kids since they can go hide inside of a virtual reality and ignore the real world around them.  But virtual worlds have real world problems in them.  I have seen this on my Xbox Live account. But that is another post I can write on a later day.

The game companies are trying and they are being successful addicting kids to play their games.  A lot of the games are free to download and play but cost money inside of them.  Buying fake coins with real money to upgrade their buildings or armies or even paying for a game like Call of Duty and then get charged for additional characters or new maps throughout the year.  This can cause someone to pay a lot of money into something that has no value in the real life world.

I big reason kids do this is because they are not liked in the real world or being picked on and they think by going into a game that they can be liked and forget about the real world.  This is not the case.  You lose time of what is happening in the real world and missing a lot of good things.

I know this first hand.  I used to play games every night from the time I got home from work to the time I go to bed as well as on the weekends.  I missed some good points of being a father during this time as well as put strain on my marriage.  At the time I didn’t see this and that is what addiction does to a person.  I was doing this because I thought I had friends in the game and the game was hard to stop playing due to the completion in it.

It took me almost losing everything before I realized what was really was happening. And now I still play games but it is very limited to once a week.  There has been times were there are several weeks that go by before I play on it.  The one thing I learned from this experience is that the virtual world is worse than the real world and the virtual world is full of broken promises and dreams.

Real life is full of adventures and journeys that out-numbered any virtual world ever created.

Did you ever have to deal with game addiction or anything similar to it?  Do you know how much time your kids play online or you play online?  Feel free to leave your answer in the comments and I will respond to the questions you have.

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A to Z Challenge Letter G

Focus on the Good Stuff (2015 – A to Z Challenge)

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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As a parent with four kids, it is sometimes hard to focus on the good stuff and just focus on the bad stuff.  This is good only if you are correcting them but it will show them that you only care about the bad stuff.  You need to show them by commenting on the good stuff that you really care.

The more good stuff you focus on, the more the child will feel loved and the less they will act out.  I have found this out the hard way and now it is harder to correct then it was to do it in the first place.

All a child ever want is to be loved and to have someone pay attention to them and to have that person care about them.  So by focusing on the good stuff you ultimately are showing them this.  It could be just as simple as saying you are proud of them and what good choices they made.

I would go on and on about this topic but it ultimately has to be shown to your children then for me to just lecture about it.  This is a very important key to being a parent and raising your kids to be good people in society.  Since we need a lot of good people out there now days.

When was the last time you focus on the good stuff your child or children did?  What are your thoughts on this subject since I have a few younger readers out there?  Feel free to leave your answer in the comments and I will respond to the questions you have.

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Eager For Summer (2015 – A to Z Challenge)

06 Monday Apr 2015

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As a parent of four energized kids I can’t wait for summer to come full time.  It is getting tiring to pick up the house almost on an hourly schedule.  At least in the summertime I can get the kids to go outside and enjoy the outdoors as well as any messes they make will also be outside.

So that is enough of “the pick up after kids’ part” of the writing and onto why we are eager for summer.  It is a time to go the beach at the lake by our home, to go to the local swimming pool that has a couple nice slides in it, and to just be outside as a family and enjoying it.

We are big on spending time outside of the house.  We get a yearly pass to the swimming pool and almost every night during the week we are there.  We like to take our kids to the lake as well as spend time looking at nature.  We plan our vacation for sometime in the summer as well as any BBQs we are planning on having with the kids.

Bet it just gives the kids a fresh breath of freedom and not having to spend to whole day in the house.  After a while playing in the house kind of becomes boring.  Especially spending all winter inside due to the snow and cold weather we have here.  It is also a sign that school is almost over and my kids about this time of the year start hoping for school to be over as soon as possible.  I remember this thought as well when I was a child.

I remember playing in the parks, riding bicycles and playing pickup ball games during the summer months.  As well as swimming and fishing.  I like the summer months and so does my kids.

What are you favorite memories of summer as a kid or with your own kids?  If you are not a summer type of person then which season is yours and why?  Feel free to leave your answer in the comments and I will respond to the questions you have.

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A to Z Challenge Letter E