From Pregnancy to child’s teen years, parenting help, tips, advice and resources for discipline, behavior, school issues and more.
Like adults, no two children are alike. Therefore, children need to be treated as individuals. With three children in our family, it is hard to find one-on-one time to talk, listen, and nurture each child’s personal needs. In our house, we schedule one night out of the week to spend … Read more
We all know how difficult it can be to come up with different, healthy and fun lunch box ideas – and that’s why we end up packing up the same lunches over and over again! To help you (and your kids!) avoid packed lunch boredom, we have collected some simple … Read more
Acne and other skin blemishes usually start developing around the time of puberty which occurs between ages ten to thirteen. Sometimes early signs of acne can even appear at the age of eight. Tiny blackheads and papules begin to develop in the area of the nose, which tends to be … Read more
While it is important to maintain good oral habits in children, it is equally important to understand and break the bad habits. Going to bed with a bottle, thumb / finger sucking and swallowing toothpaste are some examples of bad dental habits in children. Going to Bed With a Bottle … Read more
To enhance your child’s interest in eating, consider these nine strategies:
1. Involve children in meal preparation: The sooner kids take an active role in helping to make meals, the more they begin to accept new foods and the less picky they are. Kids as young as two to three can be involved by scrubbing potatoes, tearing lettuce for a salad, arranging vegetables on a platter, shaping cookies or stirring the pancake batter.
From the earliest stages of pregnancy through the nine months that follow, your growing baby depends on you for shelter and nourishment. Amazing growth is occurring. In just the first trimester, your baby will grow from a single cell to an easily recognizable fetus approximately 3 inches long comprised of billions of cells. As your baby grows, your blood volume increases, your uterus will expand and you will go through changes that might feel like they are taking all the energy you have.
The diaper area is a perfect environment for rashes to develop — moist, dark, and inundated by a never ending supply of pee and poop. But the causes of a diaper rash vary, and when parents don’t know the exact cause, treatments can fail.here are few tips to treat and … Read more
Parenting takes a lot of patience and fortitude. Use the following positive parenting tips can help. Play with your kids: The more you play with them, the easier it is to know what is going on with them. When you spend time with your kids, you’ll get to know when … Read more
Are you constantly searching the latest on parenting to make sure you are doing everything exactly right? It’s time to relax. Temple University psychologist, Laurence Steinberg, says that perfect parents just don’t exist.
“Most parents are pretty good parents,” says Steinberg, “But I’ve never met a parent who is perfect 100 percent of the time. We all can improve our batting average.”
Sports analogies are useful to Steinberg, the concept of the book came from his own desire to improve his golf game. “I was reading, probably for…….
