If you came to my house right now this is what you would find:

• 3 baskets of folded laundry waiting to be put away
• full laundry hampers in every bedroom waiting to be washed
• a very full trashcan in my bathroom
• bills that I need to pay
• countertops that need to be straightened and wiped off
• a dog that needs to be bathed
• two refrigerators that need to be cleaned out

This is just what you can see. I am sure if you opened closets and really started looking you would think I needed to do more. 

On the weekend we play catch up with laundry and other things, but I don’t want to spend every minute of my time with my kids cleaning. I used to be uptight about my house and I had to let go. I may have let go a little too much, but I am much happier and so is my family.

Sometimes in teaching our children a skill we need a little extra help. I am a method person. If you give me a list of instructions I can follow them, but since there isn’t an instruction book for parenting it  often feels like being thrown out of a plane without a parachute.

Each of my children needs to be parented differently and they learn differently. When Adam was in kindergarten, it was time for him to learn to tie his shoes. I used all the tricks in my bag, and we were getting no where but frustrated. We even enlisted the help of his big brothers, but still no success.

I decided I needed to look for other resources to help him and found these books. I bought both books and let him decide which one he liked best. We carried the book with us in the car and he would practice constantly. In a couple days he was tying his shoes.

Maybe these resources will help your child graduate from Velcro.