Diet:
1.
Balanced attention to diet and nutrition: low sugar, low carbohydrate,
no soda, within reason. Light on the fruit juice. No sugared fruit juices. Junk food snacking only on special occasions.
Media:
2. Cut
down on TV, movie and video game activity as much as is possible.
3. Take
video games and television out of the bedrooms.
4. Keep
the computer in a public place in the house. and keep an eye on how much computer time is being spent and what sites. Talk
to your children about it. It is not always necessary to have the
Internet in the home.
Professional help
and education:
5. Pursue
tutoring, coaching, mentoring in school. Personal assistants also can be of help.
Inquire about it.
6. Pursue
any other one on one programs in the public schools or public library such as
reading tutoring that are available.
7. Communicate
with your children’s teachers regularly-visit often and attend meetings.
Wholesome Recreation,
Music and Art:
8. Provide
wholesome recreation for you children during the week and weekends.
9. Consider
enrolling your child in art lessons.
10. Buy how to books and supplies for your children
on art. and
decorate your home likewise.
11. Try to weed out any comic books or games that
have occult or spiritistic overtones, or that are violent. This is true also of music. Encourage lighter, mellower, music
rather than heavy alternative music, gothic, heavy metal, grunge, hard
core, or hard
rock with spiritistic influences. Keep tabs on how much time is spent.
12. Get a pet or fishtank. (It teaches responsibility
and giving, it’s a
nice hobby with
nice lessons to be learned.)
13. Enroll your child in piano or violin lessons.
Discipline and Support:
14. Provide loving but firm discipline for your
children. Be consistent
15. Make sure your children have good companionship
with suitable
friends.
16. Keep up on your child’s activities when
they visit other children.
Communicate with their
friend’s parents about your child’s special
needs.
17. Plan day trips to art museums, aquariums, zoos
or places of historical interest.
Outdoor activities:
18. Exercise, walk, camp, hike, visit local parks
or lakes for recreation.
Sleep and Precautions:
19. Make sure your child is getting to sleep at
a regular and
reasonable bed
time and don’t
resort to medicine to help him to
sleep.(it can create
a vicious cycle.)
Time and Love:
20. Spend
quality and quantity time with your child. Show lots of
love and approval regularly. Be patient with your child’s
progress. Try not
to be a perfectionist.
21. Take
personal responsibility for your decisions and actions.
22. Keep
well-informed and well read on everything involved with
your child’s situation. Parents magazine often has good articles,
as does Awake magazine, in addition to many books
that have
been written. Be
selective in which books you read on this subject.
23. Care for your family’s spiritual needs.
Read the Bible, Bible stories
and pray with
your child. Teach him to pray. Pray for your
child. Build a value system in your child. Don’t let TV teach life’s
lessons to your child.
24. Keep hope alive and don’t give up. Your
positive attitude will reflect in your decisions and your dealings
with your child.
RECOMMENDED BOOK
FOR CHILDREN:
I Can Draw
by Terry Longhurst
Amanda O'Neill
Paragon Publishing 2000.
Excellent book to teach children 4-15 to draw.
Color, illustrated, animals, human figures. Simple, wonderfully illustrated.
