By Renee Martinez, Founder of Raising Boys World
You know that Saturday mornings will never be the same once you have children, right?
Practices, games, birthday parties, cub scouts or swimming, there’s always something on the schedule to prevent you from having a lazy day. Then there’s my 2 year-old.
Add him to the mix (especially when he’s in rare form) and you’ve got trouble. He’s been instigating trouble with his brothers all morning long. Pushing and hitting them and taking away their toys. He’s like a cyclone of 2-year-old craziness. The problem is that I can’t seem to stop him from terrorizing his older brothers. They’re really frustrated with him, but fortunately, they’ve handled him without causing any bodily harm.
I understand their frustration. Frankly the older boys are treating him with more respect than I might have at their age, I’m surprised an all-out brawl hasn’t ensued. Two is a difficult age to manage. I know he understands rules and consequences, but yet, he’s still a little guy so my expectations are a bit lower for him. For example, I cannot get him to stop jumping on the couch. No matter what I say or do, I’m always catching him throwing the pillows around and jumping on the couch. It drives me crazy! Does this sound familiar to you? I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
About the Author: Renee Martinez consults and speaks professionally on social media marketing, integrated marketing communications, public relations and branding. She is the president of Ruby Marketing Communications (www.rubymarcom.com), a boutique marketing communications company that specializes in providing branding, social media strategy and integration, and creative services. Her blog (www.lisac95.sg-host.com), provides resources on everything marketing and social media for her active audience.
Renee has contributed as a featured monthly columnist in the monthly jewelry industry publication, JCK, on matters related to internet marketing as well as in InStore Magazine as a featured blogger where she writes about developing effective marketing strategies for the jewelry industry using social media. She is the founder of: Social Media Biz Summit (www.socialmediabizsummit.com), the first large-scale SM conference to come to Buffalo, NY; #jewelrychat, a weekly twitter chat for the jewelry industry and www.RaisingBoysWorld.com. Renee teaches social marketing courses at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY for the business school as well as offers small group social media marketing training and educational seminars for businesses in Western New York and beyond.
Renee has dabbled in the internet marketing arena since the early 90′s and is not ashamed to call herself a “marketing geek”. From chatting in AOL, “sharing” music on Napster, and teaching HTML classes before it was considered “cool” to developing comprehensive social media strategies, effective public relations campaigns and managing online communities (most recently Chevy Girls Buffalo).
She enjoys being able to help people find their voice online and to create buzz about their product or service that will give them the results they desire.
Renee can be found on Twitter (@reneemmartinez) and Facebook (http:/www.facebook.com/RubyMarCom).
