Parenting

Cocaine Use Among Teens
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
Cocaine is a powerful drug that can be snorted, injected when dissolved in water, ingested, or smoked as crack. It is often referred to as coke, snow, flake, blow, or other terms. Cocaine is highly ...
Respect Your Child's Fever, But Please Don't Fear It
By Mike Patrick Jr, Md · 18 years ago
Your one-year-old is unresponsive. Her eyes roll back. Her arms and legs stiffen. She begins to jerk and twitch. You are suddenly shaky yourself as panic and fear grab hold. You snatch her up in ...
Protect Your Children From Drowning And Other Water Accidents This Summer
By Scott Corbett · 18 years ago
The summer season is a special one for families. Older children are out of school and younger children can enjoy being outdoors with their families. For many people, summer especially means swimming—in pools, lakes, rivers, ...
The Amazement of A Child
By Ingela Berger · 18 years ago
Everyone who has met a little child has seen it; the amazement of a little child. The child sees a bus, and gets all excited about it, it sees a dog, and can’t sit still ...
Problems Facing Teens Today
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
Teenage is a growing period with many teen problems too. Such teen problems have no boundary or actual cause of worry. However, your teen is overtly concerned leading to a fall in self-confidence and total ...
Baby Showers for Adoptive Parents
By David Snape · 18 years ago
We all hear about baby showers for expecting parents, but what about for adopting parents? An adoption baby shower is more than acceptable - it's encouraged! Adopting parents have the same needs as any other ...
Advice to Parents on Childhood Measles - Part II
By Peter Nisbet · 18 years ago
In Part 1 I explained how a lack of knowledge about measles symptoms and resistance to MMR has resulted in some parents starting up ‘measles parties’ to ensure that their children caught measles early and ...
Teens and ADHD
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
ADHD teens refer to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in teens. It is more common in boys than in girls. ADHD teens are present among three to five percent of growing teens. This is a brain ...
Does my Child need Therapy?
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
Often children and teenagers unable to cope with certain emotional events are in need of teen therapy. It is difficult to identify existence of specific problems necessitating teen therapy. Some of these problems surface in ...
Getting Help for Troubled Teens
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
There is no specific definition to define troubled teens. You try to locate points of difference between your teen and others to identify existence of any problems. However, instead of comparing, evaluating troubled teens individually ...
Teen Drug Use Warning Signs
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
Problems of teen drug abuse are common among most teenagers of the day. Drugs are chemical substances with both harmful and therapeutic properties. Intake of drugs having high concentrations of gold, lead, or silver is ...
Parenting Teens
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
Teenage may be a confusing period for the teenager but parenting teens is an equally confusing and intriguing responsibility. Besides, every teenager is unique and poses different challenges. Hence, parenting teens is not a smooth ...
Advice to Parents on Childhood Measles Part I
By Peter Nisbet · 18 years ago
Measles is caused by a virus of the influenza family. The initial measles symptoms are a bit like a bad cold or flu, but with a rash! The vast majority of parents do not know ...
Baby clothing for your little ones
By Isabella Rodrigues · 18 years ago
Do you want to shop some clothes for your baby? Mothers do not have to worry for Baby clothes any more. Dressing newborn infants is so much fun. Your baby will need number of newborn ...
"Parenting Tip: 7 Ways to Complement Computer Games and Unleash Your Child’s Creative Genius”
By Paul Arinaga · 18 years ago
Even though we may enjoy playing them ourselves, many parents worry about the impact of computer games on their child’s development. We fear that letting our kids play computer games for more than an hour ...
Is a Private School Right for my Child?
By Keith Allen · 18 years ago
A school run by private authorities is a private school. Schools run by government are public schools. Although there are various demarcations between a private school and a public school, yet of late the gap ...
Put That Kid in a Car Seat!
By Mike Patrick Jr, Md · 18 years ago
I don't currently advocate road rage. Laying on the horn, swearing like a sailor, and swerving around the slow guy in the passing lane is not my style. Of course, tastes change over time, so ...
Baby Care Tips
By Tania Jain · 18 years ago
The mother of a baby is the most busy person on earth, when she is not very gathered about her daily routine vis-à-vis the baby. Breast feeding Everyday she has to bother about the baby’s ...
Spit-Ups: Baby Problem or Laundry Problem?
By Mike Patrick Jr, Md · 18 years ago
You've had your baby home a month or so, and he's a cutie--no doubt about it. There's one problem though, a problem you hadn't considered before he arrived: He pukes all the time! And it's ...
Baby Cribs Safety - Better Safe Than Sorry
By Mark Dietzel · 18 years ago
It is a sad fact but one we have to come to grips with, not all baby cribs are safe. Baby cribs are supposed to keep your baby safe during sleep but did you know ...