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Welcome to Pepa's Blog.
Where you will find Stories, Tips Facts and Figures about Parenting children in the 21st Century.
Information and Parenting Help for those endeavoring good parenting in today's times. If you have Special Parenting Skills, Positive Parenting Tips or Good Parenting Stories that you would like to share with us, just let us know. We will review them and, after staff approval, post them for all to see.
If you have a special Parenting Plan that you have used or a place that you have turned to for Parenting help and would like to share that, we will be happy to include that here also. Maybe you have gift ideas for kids, tips on parenting teenagers or even gifts for grandparents, (PePa's joke). Please feel free to share those as well.
Where you will find Stories, Tips Facts and Figures about Parenting children in the 21st Century.
Information and Parenting Help for those endeavoring good parenting in today's times. If you have Special Parenting Skills, Positive Parenting Tips or Good Parenting Stories that you would like to share with us, just let us know. We will review them and, after staff approval, post them for all to see.
If you have a special Parenting Plan that you have used or a place that you have turned to for Parenting help and would like to share that, we will be happy to include that here also. Maybe you have gift ideas for kids, tips on parenting teenagers or even gifts for grandparents, (PePa's joke). Please feel free to share those as well.
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The Right Car for a Teenager
Mon, 7th December, 2009
I'm from the old school when it comes to buying a car for a teenager. I think it should be something big, heavy and slow rather than small, light and fast. The problem with that is it is not usually the choice of the teenager, but hey, who's paying for it. If they want to drive on my ticket, meaning dollar, and insurance, they can drive what I furnish.
I am from the country and I think all teens should start out with a Pickup truck. One that they can afford payments on and afford to put fuel in. Maybe this is not the ideal situation in most teens eyes but it may just give them a chance to grow up.
I have seen a number of Parents that want to give their teens what they themselves never had, ending up buying them a real nice sports car or fast mussel car, or something, only to fall slave to the insurance company, or worse. Insurance Rates are high enough without adding high risk cars and teenage drivers to the program. Well we can't do without the teens but we can do without the high risk cars. And, of course, we never want anything to happen to "our little gifts from God".
Pepa's advice is let your teens drive Dad's pickup until they have learned how to afford the car of their choice. Maybe by that time they will have pasted the age of illegal drag racing and daredevil stunts and become better for it.
Another tip: If you can find a place, a farm or somewhere, where there is no trees and ditches, go with your child and teach them the art of driving. Let them try different things, with your guidance, like spin-outs. skids and recovery, counter steering measures and such. Things that they do not learn in driving school. A private snow covered field, with permission of course, is an ideal place to teach some of these techniques. You will never be sorry for taking the time to do this. It may save their lives.
The Teen will also learn to respect the power of the vehicle and some of it's dangers as well. Do not, at any cost, turn them loose on today's highways without at least some type of training with you and your experience in the car with them. And I don't mean just letting them drive to school and back with you in the car for a year. I mean some extensive training about being and staying alert while driving. You have one year, in most states, to invest in your teens driving habits, make it a good one.
This may sound a little mean but this advice has worked since the 1920's, in our family, and we have very safe and alert drivers with perfect driving records. Thank God.
Pepa
http://www.pepastreasures.com
I am from the country and I think all teens should start out with a Pickup truck. One that they can afford payments on and afford to put fuel in. Maybe this is not the ideal situation in most teens eyes but it may just give them a chance to grow up.
I have seen a number of Parents that want to give their teens what they themselves never had, ending up buying them a real nice sports car or fast mussel car, or something, only to fall slave to the insurance company, or worse. Insurance Rates are high enough without adding high risk cars and teenage drivers to the program. Well we can't do without the teens but we can do without the high risk cars. And, of course, we never want anything to happen to "our little gifts from God".
Pepa's advice is let your teens drive Dad's pickup until they have learned how to afford the car of their choice. Maybe by that time they will have pasted the age of illegal drag racing and daredevil stunts and become better for it.
Another tip: If you can find a place, a farm or somewhere, where there is no trees and ditches, go with your child and teach them the art of driving. Let them try different things, with your guidance, like spin-outs. skids and recovery, counter steering measures and such. Things that they do not learn in driving school. A private snow covered field, with permission of course, is an ideal place to teach some of these techniques. You will never be sorry for taking the time to do this. It may save their lives.
The Teen will also learn to respect the power of the vehicle and some of it's dangers as well. Do not, at any cost, turn them loose on today's highways without at least some type of training with you and your experience in the car with them. And I don't mean just letting them drive to school and back with you in the car for a year. I mean some extensive training about being and staying alert while driving. You have one year, in most states, to invest in your teens driving habits, make it a good one.
This may sound a little mean but this advice has worked since the 1920's, in our family, and we have very safe and alert drivers with perfect driving records. Thank God.
Pepa
http://www.pepastreasures.com
Kids are Our Future
Tue, 24th November, 2009
Our Kids are Our Future. In the Book of Proverbs a statement is made, by the wise man Solomon, that kids are a blessing of the Lord and Blessed is the man that has his quiver full. The more kids to bring joy to your heart the more blessed you will be.
I don't believe that the writer meant that it would be easy to raise a whole liter of the little pups, but merely, because of our inheritance and the knowledge that we pass down to our offspring we have more than one chance to get it right. Just as an archer, having more than one arrow in his quiver, if he misses on the first shot, has a good chance for a second.
Our hope is that we can pick up experience quickly and become marksman in a short time so as not to miss the target with our children in this 21st Century.
We should by now, at least, be learning that Our Kids of Our Future are smart, quick to learn, and mostly independent. But we do not ever want to think that they can make it to the designated targets without our Direction in their lives.
PePa
http://www.PePasTreasures.com
I don't believe that the writer meant that it would be easy to raise a whole liter of the little pups, but merely, because of our inheritance and the knowledge that we pass down to our offspring we have more than one chance to get it right. Just as an archer, having more than one arrow in his quiver, if he misses on the first shot, has a good chance for a second.
Our hope is that we can pick up experience quickly and become marksman in a short time so as not to miss the target with our children in this 21st Century.
We should by now, at least, be learning that Our Kids of Our Future are smart, quick to learn, and mostly independent. But we do not ever want to think that they can make it to the designated targets without our Direction in their lives.
PePa
http://www.PePasTreasures.com
