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Bedtime Rituals for Children Eliminate Bedtime Headaches for Parents
By Elena Neitlich · 17 years ago
“I can’t take it anymore!” a young mother’s desperate e-mail pleaded, “it takes anywhere from two to four hours to get my kids to bed at night and I am so tired. Sometimes I sit ...
How to introduce baby sign in a bilingual environment
By Jackie Durnin · 17 years ago
Two questions I get asked regularly are:
* What is the best way to introduce more than one language to my baby?
* If introducing my baby to two languages already, how do I incorporate ...
Creative Potty Training
By Valerie Garner · 17 years ago
When I was potty training my two young boys, I discovered this method of potty training that made it an enjoyable, yet very effective way to potty train toddlers.
First, make sure your child is ...
How to Teach your Baby to Fall Asleep
By Shannon Jaklic · 17 years ago
How do you teach your baby to fall asleep since you and your husband are sleep deprived wondering how long it will take before your little darling is sleeping through the night? Will it be ...
Naming Your Baby: 5 Helpful Tips for Personalising Your Baby Naming Ceremony
By Helen Rankin · 17 years ago
Baby naming ceremonies, in one form or another, have a history practically as old as man. What is new are the original ideas new parents keep coming up with for the traditional baby naming ceremony. ...
The Homework War: The Parents' Camp
By Sheryl Wood · 17 years ago
If it's fall, it must be back-to-school time. And with school comes homework. If homework is synonymous with nightly battles in your home, then these tips will help to alleviate that and will help your ...
Ten Smart Organizing Tips for Overwhelmed Parents
By Elena Neitlich · 17 years ago
Parents often feel overwhelmed, frustrated and guilty as they guide their children through the stages of childhood. For most parents, cooking, cleaning, carpooling, grocery shopping, bath time, bedtime, and potty training are on the shortlist ...
Promoting Gender Sensitivity
By Danny Will · 17 years ago
Normally, boys would like to play toy guns and play soldiers while girls love to dress up their dolls. However, most of us would probably be alarmed if they would trade toys. Recent studies show ...
The Importance of Play
By Danny Will · 17 years ago
As we all know, children love to play. Playing provides children the chance to discover and experience things and situations for themselves, of which, is very important in the development of a child.
A child ...
Tips on Smart Parenting
By Danny Will · 17 years ago
Tips on Communicating with your Children
Most parents have hard time communicating with their children, especially teenagers. In order to have a decent conversation with their children, the parent must establish eye contact with the ...
Value Formation and Instilling Good Behavior
By Danny Will · 17 years ago
As parents, we try our best to prepare our children make the right decision for themselves or at least have better options when they grow up. An ideal parent must be able to exercise firm ...
Filter out those Childhood Distractions
By Phil Girouard · 17 years ago
It's your responsibility to eliminate childhood distractions. What's that, you say... a little pushy? Parents need a little push... no, a big push. The array of childhood distractions kids are exposed to today is not ...
Preparing Children for Emergencies
By Francesca Black · 17 years ago
Intense circumstances create high amounts of stress, not only for adults, but children also. Whether it is a fire, flood or earthquake, children need to know what to do and how to do it in ...
Parenting Children With Oppositional Defiant Disorder
By Mark Hutten, M.a. · 17 years ago
Children with ODD need to learn to take responsibility for their behavior and not use their diagnosis or disability as an excuse for inappropriate behavior. They need help learning how to:
· Set limits
· ...
3 Approaches To Homeschooling Your Children
By Donald Saunders · 17 years ago
There are almost as many approaches to homeschooling as there are parents undertaking homeschooling but over the years several general approaches have appeared. Here we look at just three of these.
The first approach is ...
Six Steps for Reading Aloud to Your Kids
By Faye Walker · 17 years ago
Do you have time to read to your child? Does your child's teacher scold you for not reading? Do you avoid reading because you just don't know what to say? Or is it hard to ...
Parenting Advice
By Arnold Cafe · 17 years ago
When I was a kid, I thought that rearing a child was easy.But now it has changed, when I become a father myself of two children, a boy and a girl. I realized both the ...
Are You Raising an Entitled Child?
By Elena Neitlich · 17 years ago
The conversation around child rearing has turned to overindulgence, self-absorption, and entitlement. Is the generation just now hitting adulthood, overly entitled? Do young people feel that they can lay claim to whatever they fancy? Are ...
Advice for parenting after divorce
By India Parenting · 17 years ago
Divorce and Parenting
Pawns in the game
Vinita Panjabi recalls, "When Sanjay and I decided to get a divorce, I think we fought the most about who would keep the children. I remember being so ...
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
By Mark Hutten · 17 years ago
Children with Childhood disintegrative disorder (
CDD) appear to develop normally for the first two
years of life, but then lose skills in areas such
as language, play, and bowel control and manifest
impaired social ...