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Have you ever stopped to think about the patterns in relationship with your kids (or anyone for that matter?) Well, awhile ago I realized how much fun I was not being with my son Josh every time we got in the car to go somewhere. It was a repeat drama of “Put your seatbelt on.” One day I started to wonder what I must sound like to Josh. Thoughts of “Blah, blah, blah, blah” and then I thought of the Charlie Brown cartoon and how the parents always sounded like a muffled “whaumpha, whaumpha, whaumpha.” 

This is when I started to take myself and life much less seriously and I started to imagine what life was life for my delightful 7-year-old son that had an unbridled imagination. So, instead of trying to prove that I was wiser, bigger and the boss of him – I thought, hummm… “Why not join him in his world?” I mean, really, he is never stressed out, he wakes up each morning looking for something to look forward to… and any happy thought would do. Seriously, my good friend Jean Chu once said to me “Joshua is calmer than you” – he was 3 years old at the time and it was quite true.

So I joined Josh in his imagination and asked “How can I make it more fun and more like a game to inspire Josh to put his seatbelt on?” I dusted off my imagination and came up with a very clever strategy, that I must say still works like a charm! It’s fun and all of Josh’s friends and his cousins all love to play along and I have not spoken the words “Put your seatbelt on, now!” since. It’s revealed in the “How to Get Your Kids to Wear a Seatbelt – 3 Somewhat Clever Strategies video below…

How to Get Your Kid to Wear a Seatbelt – 3 Somewhat Clever Strategies

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Live and Play with Passion!

~Julie

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