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- Potty Training …To Train or Not to Train? By Rexanne Mancini
I have always found the notion of toilet training a toddler to be a bit much. I didn't feel right about pushing my girls to do something I felt would eventually come naturally. At three years old, both my girls were potty trained ... not because I read books and raced them to the porcelain each time I suspected they should go. They knew what the potty was for. They knew when they had to go. They'd figure it out on their own! Well, by golly, they did!Sure, we went a little stupid each time they…
- Promoting Your Child's Heart Health By Rae Pica
Cardiovascular endurance is one of the five health-related components of physical fitness. It refers to the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen and nutrients to the muscles. In simple terms, someone with great cardiovascular endurance has a strong heart – one that actually grows in size and pumps more blood with every beat, resulting in a lower heart rate.As you can imagine, this can only happen when an individual regularly exercises. Typically, it’s aerobic exercise that improv…
- Parenting Tips: Taking a Management Approach with Teenagers, Part 2 By Jeff Herring
A good way to set things up is that the teenager, over time. can learn and earn the ability to be more and more in charge of themselves.Over timeNotice that I said over time.What this means in the day to day world of parenting is that parents give teens enough rope, not to hang themselves, but enough rope to grow themselves.You don't hand someone who has had little or no responsibiltiy a huge responsibility all at once. You don't give a kid who has had no opportunity to demonstrate responsibil…
- Staying Calm: Tips for Parents By Susie Cortright
My beloved car had just blown its engine, pregnancy was making
me crazy, and we had no money in our pockets (or anywhere else).
When I slammed our front door, I knocked the only plant I had
managed to keep alive all season off the windowsill. Just as
the pottery hit the floor and cracked, so did I. I lay face
down in black potting soil and pottery shards and let my Labrador
lick the tears off my dirty face.That was just before the birth of our first child. Since
then, there have been co…
- Parenting Your Teenager: An Enemy or a Guide? By Jeff Herring
Many of the families I work with seem to have trouble communicating with their kids. To a certain extent, this is normal in developmental terms. As a child reaches the teen years, it's very normal for them to begin to pull away from the parents and relate more to their peers.Teenagers usually view their parents either as guides or as the enemy in growing up. If you are the enemy they will learn how to con you and lie to you which can make for a long battle. If they view you as the guide, you s…
- Secrets Of Happy Moms By Carrie Lauth
Have you ever noticed how some Moms seem to be very contented and confident in their role as Mothers, and others seem chronically stressed and approaching burnout? Why are some Moms unflappable and able to keep their sense of humor, while others overreact to the slightest stressors in their day?I'm currently observing and interviewing these happy Moms as I conduct research for an upcoming book. While all Moms are different, these women usually have several of the following traits in common.1) …
- Your Curious Baby: Baby's Seventh Month Guide By Michelle Higgins
In baby's seventh month, he is still pretty interactive, but he is more interested in taking apart his toys (and anything else that he can lay his hands on) than just meaningless babble. The days are over when you can set your baby someplace and come back ten minutes later to find him still at the same spot. Your seven month-old baby has developed a sense of independence and wants to explore your house (and beyond) all by himself.Carry me!Your seven month-old baby has a predicament. She wants …
- Saving for Tomorrow's Tuition! By Tom Palange
Saving money for your children’s college education can be an overwhelming task. Over the last thirty years tuition at a 4-year public university has increased nearly 50% while the tuition at a 4-year private university has increased a staggering 110%. To meet these rising costs it is essential that you start saving today!
To help you save for tomorrow’s tuition you can invest in a 529 College Savings Plan. A 529 Plan is operated by a state, or educational institution, and designed to help f…
- The Family Guy - Parenting From a Single Dad's Perspective By Jay Bartels
It was a hot summer day in august and The courthouse was without cold air. I wiped my brow as I entered the crowded courtroom. Several times I had appeared in family court, petitioning to get custody of my children. On each occasion I left the courtroom alone. The court had taken the girl's mothers rights away, but fighting through all the red tape had dragged on for two years.I did all I could to keep my faith. Then came that magical day. The girls were coming home with me! Wait a minute; the…
- Forgotten Favorite Strategies for Unmotivated, Difficult, and Misbehaved Students By Ruth Wells
We have so many interventions that sometimes even some of
our favorite devices can be forgotten. These techniques used
to be regulary included in our popular Breakthrough
Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshops
but not so often now,though perhaps they should be.
So, here are some old but golden strategies that should be used not forgotten.If you love these solutions, and want more, our web site has information on our workshops and books plus hundreds more attention-grabbing, r…
- Want To Further Your Children's Studies? By Michele Lum
Being in a competitive world, the lowest qualification to secure a good job is a degree. However, a degree subject may be perceived as too general and the acquisition of a specialist skill through professional courses or a post graduate program may help improve employment prospects.
Before you jump into a specific course or program, do take a look at the following considerations:
Studying overseas is better than studying locally? Well, we might not be sure about the education quality but i…
- How to Get Your Children Brand Free By Gregory Thomas
Those of you that have children know what an excursion to the local mall or supermarket can be like. If you're not careful, this simple trip can easily become a wallet draining experience.How often have you heard:"I want Luchables because EVERYONE eats them at lunch!""Come on mom, these cool pants only cost $80.""Dad, everyone has a Playstation II, I need one too!""I need 2 sodas and 2 bags of chips everyday!"Certainly, we as parents want to make our children happy and not deprive them of a de…
- Twin and Multiple Births are on the Rise By Nancy Wurtzel
Did you know that the number of twin births have more than doubled since the early 1970s? Today, about one of every 35 births in the United States are twins. Even more significant is the number of triplet and higher multiple births which have increased 200 percent over the last three decades.Why the huge jump in the number of multiple births?The most obvious reason for the growing birth rates of twins and multiples is the use of fertility drugs and treatments. These medical interventions ar…
- Putting Some Thought into Your Children's Birthday Gifts By Tina Wong
From very early in my childhood, as soon as I learned to, I loved to write. Stories, thoughts, letters – writing was a great joy for me. On my ninth birthday I received a gift that I will always remember. A friend of my mother’s, whom I’d known from birth, gave me a rather large book. The book was bound in dark leather with a red trim, and had no writing on the outside. When I opened it, there was nothing inside but blank lined pages. I absolutely adored that gift, and even at that young…
- A Mother's Love By Lorraine Kember
Once upon a time there was a beautiful bird whose golden feathers and sweet voice attracted attention where ever she went. She was not only beautiful but also extremely intelligent and talented and she longed to leave the nest and try her wings out in the big world.At first she did not fly far from home and when she returned to the nest, she still felt a part of it but then she flew to a foreign land and things began to change. She stayed for awhile on the rim of the nest of others but she c…
- Alias: Aptitude By Sandy Gauvin
Be aware. You may become totally overwhelmed when you get the results of the special education testing on your child. There is a lot of "stuff" on that report! And much of it sounds like a foreign language to many people.
You get one piece the results from the Intelligence part of the test. This is extremely important information, but know that it will most likely come in disguise.
One of its disguises, or aliases, might be "Broad Cognitive Ability". Another may be "Aptitude." But,…
- Your Child Has ADHD - Are You Helping or Hurting? By Carole Nickerson
When I was about 2 or 3, my mother took me to the doctor due to my extreme behavior. I had violent temper tantrums, had a seemingly raw abundance of pure energy and got into everything I could get my hands on. I was a terror, a menace, chaos on legs. She knew something was wrong. So did the doctors. They reported that they had never seen a child so completely out of control in all their years. It's still unclear if this was determined before or after I tried to jump out the 4th floor window.I …
- Top Seven Tips To Become A Good Stepmother By Danielle Hollister
Becoming a stepmother can undoubtedly be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, experiences in a woman's life.
Every family's circumstances are certainly different in some ways. There are numerous uncontrollable factors, which will inevitably effect your relationship with your stepchildren, like: whether the children have a living biological mother; whether they have any contact with their biological mother; how long ago and why their biological parents are no longer together; etc...
C…
- Parenting Your Teenager: The Law of Consequences By Jeff Herring
I'm about to speak in general, which is always risky, and I'm going to do it anyway.For parents, in general, punishment is about venting our own anger at a situation or person. It doesn't teach much about the real world.Consequences teach teens about the real world. A consequence is a result of what they did.For a consequence to have it's best effect and to best teach about the real world, it needs to have the following six features: related, reasonable, respectful, swift, short-term and stron…
- Violence in the Media—Effects on Child Behavior By Kelly Nault
It’s no secret that we’re living in a violent world. Between news reports on terrorism, bullying at school, and violence in the media, our children are exposed to all kinds of aggression. It’s also no secret that such violence can have negative effects on child behavior and development.While you probably can’t quash violence in the media, bring a halt to terrorism,
or even stop the school bully from picking fights on the playground, you can
control your child’s exposure to violence. And when…
- Hearing Our Seriously Distressed Children By Dan Edmunds
How do we deal with our seriously distressed children and adolescents?Adolescents are in a period of seeking autonomy and self-determination. These qualities can aid them in becoming agents of active transformation in their own lives. For one to recover from distress they are in need of being able to regain hope and to have an effective exercise of their free will. (Breggin, 1996). Adolescents based on their experiences formulate thoughts and feelings and begin to create values and meanings fo…
- America's Public School System --- Brutal and Spartan By Joel Turtel
The public school system in America has become a dismal failure. But education in many other times and cultures has been quite successful. The ancient Greeks, whose civilization was at its height around 500 B.C., founded Western civilization as we know it. The Athenian Greeks invented or perfected logic, drama, science, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, literature, and much more. Yet ancient Greece had no compulsory schools.Other than requiring two years of military training for young men th…
- Breastfeed a Toddler - Why? By Carrie Lauth
Is your baby approaching his or her first birthday and you're
considering weaning?The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that "breastfeeding continue for at least 12 months, and thereafter for as long as mutually desired."If you and your baby are still enjoying the nursing experience, why not take a look at some of the advantages of nursing beyond
that first year?1) Immunological BenefitsContrary to popular belief, mother's milk does not have an expiration date!Your baby cont…
- The Truth About Giving Advice By Paul Jerard
All of us want to help, protect, and shield our children from life’s daily disappointments. How can we give constructive advice, to a child, without being remembered as one of their worst critics? Any negative comment we make has a “ripple effect” and can turn into long-term hostility.Unfortunately, some adults will criticize a child far too often and any “good intentions,” are turned into a variety of bad feelings, within the child’s mind. So, giving advice is a very precise skill.If your …
- What Kids Buy—With Allowance, You Can Teach Positive Saving and Spending Habits By Kelly Nault
It’s an all too common scenario:
Child says, “I want that.” Mom replies, “I don’t’ have any money.” Child, trying
to be helpful, quickly replies, “That’s OK, just use your card.”
Unfortunately, the child in this story usually equates swiping the
plastic—whether a credit card or ATM card—with “free money.” Without realizing
it, many moms are teaching their children to become future “spendaholics.” How?
By overusing the credit card—and by acting like their children’s personal ATM
machine…
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