Cambodian Kid

Monday, October 17, 2011

How to Teach Your Kids to Keep Their Bedrooms Clean

For those who have kids may already understand that getting kids to pick up their clothes, toys, and other items is not easy. They also know that they want their homes to stay neat and clean, so they need to teach their kids these habits. Kid often thinks that a room is his/her personal space, and there shouldn’t be necessary to keep it as clean as parents need.

As parents, you have to be able to teach your kids how to keep their bedrooms clean and neat. Here are some tips for you to motivate your kids to keep their areas clean and free of too much mess.

Teach Your Kids to Keep Their Bedrooms Clean

1. Praise your kid. Sometimes, punishment is necessary, but praise for good decisions and actions often works better as a first choice. Praising children can keep them motivated to pick up their messes and keep their rooms and play areas clean. This is especially true of young children, as they are often very interested in earning their parents praise and respect.

2. Give allowance to your kids when they can keep their room clean. It is not meant that one should bribe kids, but offering kids an allowance for keeping the cleanliness of their rooms and play areas is certainly common practice today. Some people may think that it is never appropriate to reward children with money, but kids often receive an allowance, and they have to learn the value of money and how to handle it at some point in time. An allowance should be appropriate to the child age and the work that the child performs. If the work is not done, the money should be withdrawn.

Keep doing like this, and praising a kid for doing things done correctly, a kid can be motivated to keep his or her areas clean and neat. Teaching your keep how to keep their bedroom clean is not easy or made it for one day. Parents should be patient and start teaching your kids step by step.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

5 Tips to Teach Your Kids to Save Money

Currently, there are a lot of teenagers that do not understand the important of making and spending money because they were not oriented that financing is necessary although they are still students. As parents, you should be able to explain your kids on how to save money. Your kids should be able to know the concept of money and financing as early as childhood.

There are 5 tips for you to teach your kids on how to save money.

How to teach your kids to save money.

1. Tell your kids the important of saving money. Explain them about its importance and how it will effect to their life. It’s important that you entertain questions from them about the money and you should be able to respond them right away.

2. Kids should be educated of the value of money. When your kids have learned how to count, that is the great time for you to explain them the meaning of money. Maybe you can explain to them in simple ways and do like this regularly so they can remember what you told them.

3. Start teaching your kids to work for money. You can start this at home. Pay them 0.5 dollar to 1 dollar every time they do housework. Example, you pay them 1 dollar for cleaning their room, washing the dishes or feeding their pets. This concept will make them think that money is something they have to work for and should be used up properly.

4. Encourage your kid to keep certain money for the future. Tell them that the money can be saved and can buy new clothes or the toys if you are able to save the money.

5. Giving them piggy banks. This is also a good way to teach your kids to save money. You can tell them to start putting the money into the piggy banks and wait until they get full. Maybe you can also open bank accounts for your kids and let them deposit money from their allowance. To keep them motivated, you should always show them how much they have earned.

To make your kids understand and know how save money is not made it for one day. You have to be patient in teaching step by step. Kids will learn this guideline from you easily if you are patient in guiding them regularly and encouraging them in this attempt

Friday, September 23, 2011

Cambodian Kid

When we talk about Cambodian kid, some people might not know where the kid comes from because those people don't know what is Cambodia. But if we talk about Angkor or Angkor Wat, those people might recognize it. Actually, Angkor Wat is located in Cambodia.

Cambodian kid named Tey.

In Cambodia, kids are treated as the baby bamboo, who gonna replace the bamboo so they have to be taken care well. Most of the middle and high class parents buy gift for their kids and bring them to the kid playground on International Children Day because it's the only they have a lot time to stay with their family.

The parents treat their kids very well because they believe that the way they do to their kid will be returned back when they get old. Cambodian parents understand that be a good parent is the best sample for their kids to follow when the kids growing up.

Every festival in Cambodia such as Khmer New Year, Pchum Ben Day, Water Festival, etc., all parents bring kids to visit their grandma and grandpa in the province. At the same time, they also offer some fruit and money the grandma and grandpa.

With a good looking smile face is small kid named Tey or full name Vatey. She lives in a Khmer-Chinese family that's why her face doesn't look like Khmer at all. "I always get a pretty cool gift from parents on International Children Day. I love my parents, they are so good to me", said a small kid Tey. "My parents never forget me on that day even their work is pretty busy", she said added. Tey said that her parents are good sample for her. When she grow up and get married, she will do what her parents do to her grandma and grandpa.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Kid Pictures, Phnom Penh

Clever kid Pagna