I wrote this week’s “Song To Chew” to help parents who are at their wit’s end with how to manage their young children.  It's called LITTLE KID from my "Uh-Oh!" album.  Sometimes parents look into their toolbox and the only tool they see, left for them to use, is physical punishment.  Parents don’t want to use that tool.  They only hit their children when they truly don’t know what else to do.  When I sing this song in concert, I talk about being ‘spanked’ in my family of origin.  My own choice as a parent, was to never hit my own children.  I love them, and hitting them is not a way for me to express that.  I also did not want to teach them that it’s okay to use violence to solve a problem.    It’s our job as parents to come up with other tools.  We can talk things over.  We can seek professional help.  We can call for a cooling off time.  We can make deals with them.  We have a tremendous opportunity to grow and learn from the difficulties we face as parents.  Our choices will appear in our own children’s parenting tool boxes, when they have their own kids.  Let’s make sure that right on top, the first tools they see are ‘loving, listening and learning’.

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