CHRISTMAS RIDDLES

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Riddle 1

If you threw a White stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?
answer is …………….

Wet

Riddle2 
 What has two heads, four eyes, six legs, and a tail?

– answer is :   A .________  riding on ________

Riddle3

What always sleeps with its shoes on?

Riddle4

A tree-cutter has been asked to collect all nine trees, but only by walking in FOUR straight lines.

Print out the trees below and use a pencil to trace the tree-cutter’s route. You need to join all the trees with four straight lines without lifting your pencil. Your lines must pass through each tree once.
 
Riddle 5
 

Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight,
Stamping out a message:


 

 

  

Suddenly the snow began to fall heavily and the first letter N soon disappeared, leaving the word SOWING.
King Wenceslas rubbed out another letter of the word in the snow and it again left a word. He carried on taking out one letter at a time which left other, smaller words. He did this until there was only one letter left – and this was a word too!

Which words did King Wenceslas make and what was his final word?
Riddle6

Can you rearrange the letters to give the ingredients of the Christmas pudding?

TUGMEN
ROLUF
KLIM
DRABNY
TEUS
SGEG
GAURS
NISSAIR
TRANSCUR
LEPE
EPICS
SLAMNOD

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孩子愛討價還價,怎麼辦?(轉貼自天下雜誌)

該上床睡覺囉!」「快去做功課!」「吃飯時間到了!」面對你的指令,孩子經常央求著:「再給我五分鐘,好嗎?」「功課可不可以只寫一半?」「我今晚乖乖吃飯,明天可不可以多看半小時卡通?」在親子相處過程中,孩子總是動不動要使出「交換條件」的手段。面對孩子的討價還價,有些父母經常被牽著鼻子走,有些父母則堅持決不讓步。根據最新一期的《領導力季刊》,在父母給予堅定但仍有協商空間的界線中長大的孩子,未來最有可能在團體中扮演領導者的角色。

《如何和孩子協商》的作者史考特‧布朗指出,「親子協商」的過程,是孩子難得的學習機會。孩子可從中學會如何用正向的態度,面對人際衝突。以下綜合專家們的意見,教父母建立「堅定但不失彈性」的教養原則:

親子協商的雙贏四招:

1.反映現實,不威嚇:「除非我可以帶兔兔去學校,不然我就不上學!」即使你命令孩子不能帶玩偶去上學,她還是不會輕易放棄。不妨換個做法,試試「反映現實」的說服法——「如果把兔兔帶去學校,接下來會怎樣?被老師沒收,或被同學搶去,甚至還會弄髒喔」。父母運用理智的提醒,孩子反而比較願意放棄執著。

2.善用「是啊,但是」語法:「媽媽,你不是說牛奶很有營養,那我現在可不可以吃牛奶冰淇淋?」與其大聲怒斥「現在還沒吃飯,吃什麼冰淇淋!」,不如說「是啊,你說的沒錯,牛奶冰淇淋含有鈣質,可以讓骨頭變強壯,但這並不代表你就可以在飯前空腹吃冰淇淋」。即使最後的答案是「不行」,也要先讓孩子清楚你確實把他說的話聽進去了。

3.偶爾順著孩子的意願只要是無關安全考量、或不違反基本家規,在面對無傷大雅的小事,譬如「飯後甜點要吃布丁或蛋糕」的選項時,偶爾讓孩子做主。藉由應對生活中的細瑣事務,可鼓勵孩子養成解決問題的能力。

4.父母握有最後的主導權:和孩子的協商未必都能取得共識,最後的決定權還是落在父母的手中。重要的是,父母要讓孩子知道「他的需求被聽見了」,而且在尋找方案的過程中,願意為他設想。即使孩子不喜歡最後的結果,還是能理解並尊重父母的決定。