tailieunhanh - Ebook Multicoloured mayhem: Part 2

Part 2 book “Multicoloured mayhem” has contents: Family fun, sibling situations, adolescence, holidays - coping with change, put safety first, the parents’ survival guide, a conclusion to the chaos. Invite to reference. | 7 Family Fun ‘No one knows what goes on behind closed doors’. The saying often has negative connotations but in many ways it is relevant to most of our lives. The home is a place where people can be themselves, where masks are dropped and family members can feel secure in the knowledge that they are accepted for who they are and what they are. Obviously there are exceptions to such households and there are many children who have grown up with less than positive input from their parents and family members. However, the majority of parents (certainly those reading this book or they wouldn’t be bothering) love their children dearly, strive to be better parents and to do their utmost to understand and accept their children whilst aiming to help them maximize their full potential. People often look aghast as they see me race around after Joe and clean up after Ben. As Ben bunny hops around the house and smears poo around, I am often on the receiving end of sympathetic looks as I get asked how I cope with them. Whilst the two younger boys are physically exhausting, barely sleep for three hours between them and race through the house in a whirlwind of destruction, on the whole, I take things in ‘bite-sized chunks’ (thanks Jude!) and work hard with them in order for them to grow up to be happy and fulfilled. En masse 126 FAMILY FUN 127 however, a family of mixed sexes, personalities, ages and abilities makes for an explosive (on good days I prefer to say dynamic) combination that is emotionally exhausting. Dealing with the various stages of adolescence and all its turbulence, explaining the sometimes bizarre behaviour of the boys to the girls and trying to protect the teenagers from the destruction of the little ones, is a job that would wear down even the most accomplished of jugglers. Sometimes with so many balls up in the air, one of them is bound to drop! As the sole parent and carer of such a kaleidoscope of different ages and abilities, I do admit to being .