Dr. Mom

Have you taken, or do you plan on taking, any CPR or First Aid type classes? What resources do you use that have been very helpful when it comes to the health of your children? To all you moms who are nurses/doctors, do you have any recommendations for classes or books or websites or things for us un-nurses?

Love Language

What are the different love languages (time, touch, gifts, words, etc) of you, your husband, and your kids? How does that affect your interaction and daily life?

Potty Training

What tips/tricks made potty training a success for you?

Pacifier / Thumb-sucking

What are your tricks for getting a kid to give up the pacifier or thumb-sucking?

Exciting Purchase

What is a purchase you’ve made for your family or house that you are most excited about and why?

Home Management strengths/weaknesses

What is a strong point for you with managing your home? a weak point?

Reading Time

What’s on your if-I-had-time-to-read-this-is-what-I’d-love-to-read list?

Looks and Personality Similarities

Who do your kids look most like? Any similarities to you or your husband’s personality traits?

"Man Tasks"

Are you interested in learning or are you already good at any “man tasks” (car stuff, maintenance, hunting, wood-chopping, etc)?

Home Management

How were you taught to manage your home? How/when will you teach your daughters to manage their homes?

Children's Books

Amy's Question:
What is your child's favorite book? What is your favorite children's book?

House chores

How are the house chores divided between you and your husband?

Your husband

What are your 4 favorite personality / character traits, fun qwerks, etc of your husband?

Refuge

Where’s your refuge? Where do you go to get away when you need a break? Where’s someplace you’ve been where you’ve felt totally at peace?

Favorite spot

What’s your favorite spot/room in your home?

Active Sleepers

Are your kids active sleepers – sleep-talking? Sleep-walking? Dreaming? Night terrors?

Dreams

Do you dream? Do you journal them or record them in some way? Are dreams significant to you? Do they mean anything to you?

Personality pt 2

Maybe this belongs back with the personality question, but here it is. Do you have highly active children? How do you cope with / curb / channel their energy?

Favorite Date

What’s your all-time favorite date you’ve been on with your husband (from whatever part of your dating-engaged-married relationship)? Or your top 2, if all-time favorite is difficult to narrow down. :)

Budget

What does the budget look like at your house? Do you have a computer program you use? Are you and/or your husband responsible for managing the budget? What ways/methods do you use to stick to your budget?

Eating Healthy

How did you learn about eating healthy? Did you eat healthy when you were growing up? Where would you recommend someone begin if they wanted to start eating healthy now, but didn’t have a clue where to begin?

Change

How do you help kids deal with change, especially those kids that are very routine-oriented? (i.e. with moves, going to school, getting into a schedule, additions to the family, etc)

Moving

Do you like to move? Do you think – as much is within your control/desire – you’ll move around a lot?

Life Goals

What are 5 of your life goals?

Kitchen aids

What are your favorite kitchen aids?

Ladies and Gentlemen

How are you teaching (or planning on teaching) your boys to be gentlemen and your girls to be ladies?

Differences between Raising Boys and Girls

What are differences you’ve seen in raising boys and girls?

Celebrations

Within your immediate family (husband and kids), how do you handle gift-giving on birthdays, Christmas, and anniversaries? Do you have a set price-limit? Do you get a specific gift each time? Do you go all out for certain birthday or anniversary years?

Kids' birthdays

How do you celebrate your kids’ birthdays?

De-stressing

How do you de-stress?

New Mom Advice

Without freaking them out, what’s the greatest advice you have for first time moms?

Your role model

What/who was the biggest influence on who you are today (1) as a woman, (2) as a wife, (3) as a mother?

THE TALK

When are you going to have “the talk” with your kids? Are you going to use any resources? Is Dad going to talk to the boys and you to the girls? Or are you responsible for both genders? (How old were you when you were told about sex? Who told you?)

Household Equipment

What are some tools/equipment you’ve found essential to peace in your household with kids?

This question sounds strange, but I think I’m looking for simple responses.

For me, the everyday appliances are incredible helpers – I don’t know how Moms survived without them for so long. The washing machine and dryer, dishwasher, and microwave are run several times a day.

In terms of resources, the internet has been a lifesaver when it comes to 4 yo’s curiosity. We’ve visited pages about animals and volcanoes. We’ve printed off coloring sheets. We’ve gone to San Diego Zoo’s website and watched live video feed of the animal exhibits there. I look forward to discovering other fun sites! Any suggestions?

Manners

How do you teach your kids manners?

I look forward to hearing your suggestions for this one!!

Please and Thank You and You’re Welcome we’ve been working on since the kids could talk. They don’t always say them, but for the most part, the kids have those phrases down.

But how about teaching them to respond politely to compliments? Or not interrupting while you’re on the phone or talking with someone? Or sharing? Or not talking only about themselves and monopolizing the time when they’re with adults or other kids?

Help?