Do
you have kids in your house?
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Have
you experienced or heard about the
"Terrible Teens" ? |
If
you've ever had a teenager in your home, you may
have already experienced the "Teen Shut-Out".
This
is when they shut you out and become monosyllabic,
making two-way conversation almost impossible.
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We
have created Doodle DYEnamics Family Communication Day
to help parents and their children schedule at least one
day per week to sit down together for a fun and informative
30 minute conversation.
Start
today by taking the pledge.
Click
Here to Download your FREE Pledge Kit
If
you can get your kids talking on a core level at an early
age, and carry it through into their teenage years, you
have a better chance of heading off "Teen Shut-Out"
and many other teen-related problems.
Get
your kids talking while they are still young, and you'll
find it easier to keep them talking all the way through
their teenage years and on into adulthood. In order to
help you do that, we have created a fun Downloadable Doodle
Dynamics Day pledge kit.
The
benefits you and your family create by doing this are
numerous:
•
You may learn things about
each other you didn't know.
• It will be easier
to approach a difficult subject in the future.
• Your family will
become closer and more caring.
• When one of your
children has a question, they will be more likely
to ask you instead of a school friend.
• Your children will
be stronger when it comes to peer-pressure. Making
them less likely to join a gang or hang out with
kids you don't approve of.
• Your children will
be more likely to be the leaders not the followers.
• When the teen years
arrive, your children will be more prepared to
make the right decisions.
• You as parents will
be able to sleep better knowing you have helped
prepare your children to make the right decisions.
• The whole family
will learn communication skills and become more
out going and self-confident.
• And last but not
least, you are helping to prepare you children
to be more successful as adults.
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"We
worry about what a child will be tomorrow, . . . yet we
forget he is someone today."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .~ Stacia Tausche
This
FREE Pledge kit contains the downloadable Pledge Certificate,
30 Family Question Cards to help you get started, an instruction
sheet and a few Practice Doodle Sheets to use with a few
of the questions. It is intended to create fun and meaningful
conversations.
Click
Here to Download your FREE Pledge Kit
It's
FREE! . . . . .
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. . . . . . It's
FREE!
Join
the Cause!
Be
Part of the Solution.
Children
from families that have a history of carrying on positive,
meaningful, and supportive conversations have a better
chance to become self-assured, self-confident, and successful
in their adult life. The parents in these families have
a much better chance of sailing through and enjoying the
teen years with their children.
Our
goal is to give parents and their children fun tools that
they can use to open and carry on meaningful conversations
with one another;
conversations that go beyond "How was your day?"
or "Did you do your homework?"
| "Doodle
DYEnamics Family Communication Day" takes place
each and every Sunday. If Sunday doesn't work for
you, pick another day. All it requires is for families
to sit down together and have a deep and meaningful
conversation for a minimum of 30 minutes. That's 30
minutes out of each 10,080 minutes per week. |
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We
are asking all parents and their children to sign
the "Doodle DYEnamics Family Communication
Pledge". |
This pledge states,
I,
_________________, hereby pledge to spend at least 30
minutes every Sunday having a deep, meaningful conversation
with my family. If Sunday is not a good day for us, I
agree to take part in deciding on and pledging to another
day of the week.
I promise to give my full attention to the person who
is talking, and to listen with an open mind and an open
heart. I will be honest about what I share, and will also
try hard to earn and keep the trust of my family
I pledge to always keep the lines of communication open.
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This Pledge Kit contains 4 Pledge Certificates, 30 Family
Question Cards to help you get started, an instruction
sheet, and a Practice Doodle Booklet to use with a few
of the questions. It is intended to create fun and meaningful
conversations.
If
you are not able to download the Pledge Kit, and print
it out yourself, we’ll be happy to send you up to
four kits, at our cost. All we ask is that you pay shipping
and handling charges, and the cost of the paper and ink.
The first kit will be $6.25, then add $2.25 for each additional
kit up to four kits. For 5 or more kits please contact
us at Admin@DoodleDYEnamics.org
You
may request extra Pledge CERTIFICATES only, at no extra
cost.
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Some Thoughts on Family Cohesion, Communication,
and Values
by
Joel Johnson, M.A.Ed (Ph.D. – A.B.D.)
Two of the most vital parenting skills are being a good
listener, and learning to wear our values, not just talk
about them. Values are harder to argue with than opinions.
As parents, our values are like garments: When we wear
them, they either fit or they don’t. They look good
on us, or they don’t. Worn garments are difficult
to sell, but they’re easy to give away. Sometimes
other people want to wear them, sometimes they don’t.
We can’t hard-sell our values to our children; we
can only wear them and inspire our children to want to
wear them, too. If we don’t practice our values
in our everyday lives, then our values are not values,
at all…they’re merely opinions. When we don’t
live out our values and wear them with style, we often
resort to saying things like “Do as I say, not as
I do.” Unfortunately, our children are likely to
respond with, “Mom and Dad, what you are is so loud,
I can’t hear what you’re saying!”
Doodle DYEnamics will soon offer an array of products
and activities designed to enhance the communication skills
of parents and their children, and to enrich their lives
by bringing creativity into the parenting process. For
example, through our new Doodle DYEnamics Family Communication
Day program, we train parents to interact with their children
in an organized, structured, enhancing, and enriching
activity which facilitates discussion, identifies values,
while at the same time creating a memorable keepsake to
be treasured for years to come.
Quality communication among parents and their children
must be a daily activity. While many families are faithful
to do so, some families find themselves distracted from
that which should be their highest priority: bonding and
growing together. Be the first family on your block to
commit to observing and participating in our Doodle DYEnamics
Day by taking the Pledge. Make that commitment to sit
down with your children for just one half hour each week,
to celebrate the miracle of family, at a special designated
time in which other families across the nation are doing
the same. Imagine how different and more wonderful the
world would be if each and every family cared for each
other in that special way. Remember, true caring is something
we must do, not merely feel.
Click
Here to download and
TAKE
THE PLEDGE NOW!
It's
FREE!
Come
back often! We will be adding new things weekly.
