How can you tell if your teenager is at risk for developing drug or alcohol problems, depression, violence, suicide, pregnancy or dropping out of school? While many teens may actually face these problems, parents often find it difficult to tell if their child is having problems; many parents...
If you’re ready to teach your children how to cook, here are some simple tips for teaching them the basics, and giving them skills that will last them a lifetime!
First of all, think safety. Any child that has to stand on a stool or chair in order to reach the stove is too young to...
Most of us recognize the continuing escalation of violence around us, due to intolerance, and many of us blame it on somebody else. Parents teach their children, all the time, and when one of us displays road rage, while our child is in the car, we teach a brand new skill set.
Although,...
It is pretty usual for children to go around in footies or in socks during their first months. At that age, shoes are merely a ‘decoration’ item because newborns or young babies never walk so they don’t need any kind of support for their body and feet. Nevertheless, the minute...
How To Save Hundreds Of Dollars Per Year On Baby Gifts
Think for a minute. How many baby showers have you attended in the past year? Now think about how much money you’ve spent in the last year on baby shower gifts. One, two, may three hundred? For some, the answer could easily be...
Next to rent or mortgage payments, childcare often ranks as the second-highest expenditure in a household budget. Working couples can pay a whopping 10-20% of their incomes on childcare while their children are small. Seeing the high cost needed to be expensed for their children childcare, some...
Exercise and sports that require continuous activity, especially running and cold-weather activities, can induce asthmatic symptoms. Exercise-induced asthma affects about 17 million Americans, many of which are children.
Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, breathing...
How To Read So Your Children Will Fall In Love with Books
If you want to ignite the love of reading in your child, you have to do more than just read the words page after page, book after book. How you read and what you do during the reading determines how much your child gets out of that...
Although many everyone has their own different styles of parenting, there are 4 main styles of parenting. These four different styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and than uninvolved.
Uninvolved parenting is really just a lack of parenting. It is hard on children and...
You want to raise a reader. That much you know. But how? That’s the $20,000 question. You could probably spend that $20,000 on how-to books for you, readers for your child, flash cards and other accessories, and specialized reading programs promoting every possible avenue to full...
How To Prevent Your Child From Having Problems At Daycare Or School
Lets face it: As a parent or guardian, your child means everything to you. When putting your child through daycare or school, it is important to make sure that nothing goes wrong to harm your child either physically or...
Ah, potty training!
Go to a local bookseller and you will find dozens of books on the subject. Search the Net and there are thousands of websites with information on how to do it stress free. There are even people who are capitalizing on a parent’s frustration with potty training by...