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- Working Moms: Too Busy for Your Children? By Pat Downing
17 Quick Ways to Strengthen the Bonds of LoveOn Mother’s Day, we celebrate the most important job on the planet.Most moms appreciate being acknowledged, but many still feel overwhelmed by the pressures of daily life. They would like to fit more time with their children into their busy schedules, but don’t know how.The solution may be easier than you imagine.The most important thing you can do for your child is to create and nurture a strong, loving relationship between the two of you.Here are…
- Featured Article on Parenting: The Power of Belonging By Tricia Wellington
Search for Assurance: The Power of BelongingThe job hunt is on, as is the quest to find another great preschool and neighborhood to be part of. After feeling out of place, hearing over and over that an item I’m searching for is not available, or a pretty basic procedure I thought I had a grasp of is “done differently here. You must be from overseas,” I’m really glad to be back.It’s as I suspected—we each have a checklist of things we rely on to assure us that all is okay. For my elderly aunt, …
- When Should You Begin Teaching Your Child to Read? By Deanna Mascle
It is never too early to begin teaching your child to read, or at least laying the foundation for early literacy skills, and it can definitely be left too late!If you are not sure then think about this. Statistically, more American children suffer long-term life-long harm from the process of learning to read than from parental abuse, accidents, and all other childhood diseases and disorders combined. In purely economic terms, reading related difficulties cost our nation more than the war on t…
- Anti Scooter Media Frenzy By Rachel Webb
An estimated five million scooters will be sold this year and according to the U.S. Product Safety Commission 26,000 scooter-related injuries were reported before the end of December 2000! 90 percent of those injuries were to children 14 and under. The Consumer Product Safety Counsel also received reports of two deaths tied to scooter injuries. Several elementary schools are discussing ways to ban kids from riding scooters to school. Newspapers across the country headline that "Scooters Lead t…
- Monitoring Your Teens for Drug Use Without Appearing to be Spying By V. Michael Santoro
Even if your teenagers do not use drugs, you still need to keep an eye on them. It is much better to realize that things could change, and anticipate that your teen COULD become a user. Essentially, it is not wise to make assumptions about topics such as drug use. Also, having been a high school teacher afforded me the opportunity to witness peer pressure, and how even good kids could be convinced to try drugs - just to fit in. It is important that you play a proactive role in ensuring that y…
- Scolding: One of Communication's Tools of Last Resort By Jim Rohn
(Excerpted from Jim Rohn's 2004 Weekend Leadership Event)You have to be very careful of scolding. Scolding, as a last resort, may be necessary but you must be very careful. Scolding someone is like giving them a cut, giving them a small cut with your words on the hand. Maybe it will serve its purpose, and the cut will heal and everything will be okay. You needed to get their attention. But you must not do it everyday, all the time.Some children end up with psychological scars because they have…
- Teaching Reading: Part One By Tom Cooper
One of the biggest milestones in our children’s education is when they learn how to read. You’ve probably asked yourself, “When is the best time to teach my child to read?” You can research this until you are blue in the face, but the answer is really very simple. You’ve already started, because from the moment your child is born, you are teaching him. We talk to our babies. We read to them. We sing to them. We recite silly little verses while we change their diapers or put them in thei…
- Top 10 Things To Never Believe From Your Teenager By Jeff Herring
1) It's not my (pot, beer, cigarettes, etc.), I'm just keeping it for someone else.Yeah right. The next question for the parent to ask is, "If you are keeping this for your friend, what is your friend keeping for you?" One of the reasons parents can get fooled here is that you so desperately want to believe that it is not theirs and they are not doing drugs. It's important to remember that this is something your teen might be counting on.2) When caught with drugs - This is just the first time…
- Teaching Respect And Values In Today's Society By Frank McGinty
The girl's jaw dropped in horror as the police officer spoke
these words:"Don't go there. Have you any idea how many kids have been
stabbed in the past year? They'll kill you as soon as look
at you. They have no respect for life."The mother breathed a sigh of relief. She had come in to
school to seek my help, as I was her daughter's Guidance
Counsellor. We needed to convince the girl that the places
she was frequenting were putting her very life in danger.Fortunately a police officer was in s…
- Parents, Kids and Time Alone By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
“What are some of the ways in which you explain to kids that mom and
dad need time alone, without feeling guilty about it?”A journalist, writing an article on having time alone and couple time
when you have kids, asked me this question.Parents will feel guilty only when they believe that they are doing
something wrong by spending time alone and couple time without their
children.This is a false belief.The truth is that children grow up far healthier emotionally when their
parents are happ…
- Homeschooling — Is It Worth It? By Joel Turtel
Suppose that you rearrange your life to homeschool your child and the experiment fails? You may feel that you’ve disrupted your life and wasted a year of your child’s time. Your child may even be kept back a grade by the local public school.The answer to this concern is, can you risk not trying? Isn’t your child’s future worth the risk? If you see that your child is getting a bad education in public school, the worst thing to do is nothing. Then there is no chance of improvement. If you leave …
- 10 Tips To Protect Your Child Actor By Troy Rutter
If your child is involved in the entertainment industry, whether in small-town theatre productions or movies and television shows, protecting their welfare is a top priority for parents. Here are ten simple steps you can do today to help protect your child from rabid fans and predators.1. Stop using your child’s social security number on their resume.It use to be commonplace to use a social security number on a resume so producers, directors and casting directors could refer to you as a numbe…
- Bad Behaviour Bites By Marilynn McLachlan
In amongst the latest television rage of displaying our children’s worst behaviour for all to see and then having a real, live expert come and fix it, I’ve noticed a new sort of expert emerging.These are the people who watch these programs – particularly those who do not have children or those who had them so long ago they can’t remember the day to day living, stress and sleep deprivation. And for me, these people have become even more annoying than those who used to give their (unsolicited) …
- ADHD: Some Survival Strategies for Parents By Douglas Cowan, Psy.D.
In our last issue we posted some of our suggested Survival Strategies for parents, and then asked readers to contribute some of their thoughts or tips. Since this newsletter is already running pretty long, I'll only list a few of them below. Thank you to all of you who contributed!
Laugh. Be silly with your kids. Humor is a life saver with 'high-impact' children. --Laurie O'
I really enjoyed your newsletter. I am a School Psychologist and find your information valuable. I also taught Le…
- Sharing Parenting Tips By Jennifer Hull
I faced a challenge when we started a family: my husband, Bill, had no
domestic skills. He wanted to share parenting. His flexible hours as an
academic allowed him to help at home. But he could barely boil an egg.Needless to say, our early experience was rocky. We persevered,
however, and the fifty-fifty parenting arrangement we worked out with
our first child made having our second baby much easier than it would
have been otherwise. What follows are tips from our experience and
from my …
- My Son's Deployment By Kim Olver
One of the most difficult struggles in life for a parent is the struggle that occurs when the parent is attempting to keep their child safe and the child is attempting to explore the world and find their place in it, often times not in the safest manner.A discussion of Inside Out cannot occur without me sharing some of my own personal struggles with the concept. Today is one of those days. I just learned that my nineteen-year-old son received his deployment orders. He just graduated from Natio…
- Kid Time and Couple Time By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
A reader emailed me the following question:“Many dads and moms, especially those that work full-time, are torn by
guilt when it comes to time allocation. They have been away from the
kids so long during the working week that the weekends MUST be spent
with them. Result: There is simply NO couple-time. Any suggestions?”One thing that is often not realized by parents is that a happy and
harmonious marriage is one of the greatest gifts they can give to their
children. Most children will glad…
- Awesome Dad's Top Ten Communication Intentions By Dovid Grossman
An Awesome Dad in by no means perfect. But that itself is perfect, because imperfection allows us to really understand the personal evolution our children are going through with us. The definition of an Awesome Dad, then, is the father who stays in the game, shows up fully and sets powerful intentions to grow into. Here are some:I listen with my entire being - and without judgment. I seek first to understand and appreciate what my children say. From that vantage point, I will build their trust…
- How Do I Get My Child to Read? By Jeanne Russell
Well first off, please to don’t institute the ½ hour of mandatory reading that so many schools and parents are so keen on these days. You want to encourage a life-long love of reading and frankly you would be much more likely to succeed by banning reading in your house then by turning reading into yet another chore that needs to be done.
Secondly, you want to make sure that your child doesn’t have some learning disability that makes reading hard and uncomfortable. Even a child who makes goo…
- Co-sleeping, a personal story By Arabella Greatorex
When I was pregnant, we knew that we had some fairly fixed ideas about how we wanted to raise our child, including allowing her to share our bed for as long as she wanted to.We have been shocked and sometimes upset at other people’s reaction to what seemed to be a very instinctive decision, to sleep with our daughter. I am often made to justify this decision and made to feel as if we are “bad” parents just because we hadn’t trained her to sleep in a cot in her own room by 8 weeks old.As it ha…
- Choosing A Boarding School By Leon Chaddock
Do you have plans to choose a boarding school for your youngster or your young adult? If you do, there are several things that you should take into consideration prior to sending them off. While there are likely to be many schools that interest you right off the bat, you should realize that there is a need for the school to deliver to you certain standards in quality of education and discipline. While every parent has a different reason for sending their child to a boarding school, each par…
- Registering a Birth in Scotland By Tony Luck
Who Can Register A Birth?
The child's mother or father should register the birth within 21 days. However, a father who is not married to the child's
mother can only register a birth and be named on the birth certificate as the father if:
he jointly signs the register with the mother, or
a court has declared that he is the father, or
the mother and he jointly sign a declaration available from
the Registrar.
If the child's mother and father are unable to register the
birth for reaso…
- Considering Daycare? Consider the Pros and Cons By Eln Albert
When you’re a parent it’s a difficult decision to know whether to send your child to daycare or not. We have provided many of the pros and cons of sending your child to daycare for your consideration. In our opinion, nothing replaces the day-to-day interaction that you can provide with your child. We also believe that some interaction with other children either through occasional daycare, part-time, or through play-groups and other educational learning programs are invaluable. We also reco…
- Positive Parenting - Oops! I Really Lost My Temper With My Kids, What Now? By Michael Grose
Ever blown your top to your children, only to regret it ten minutes later?Silly question, it happens to us all no matter how well-behaved our kids or placid and patient we are. At times the general strains and stresses of life wear us down so our emotional responses don’t match children’s behaviours. Or rather, their less than perfect behaviour doesn’t warrant the ‘screaming banshee’ response that you have provided.So what do you do if you have blown your top and given your children an absolut…
- How to Give Your Child Encyclopedic Knowledge? By Andrew Loh
When you talk about multiply your child’s intelligence, you can’t help but to mention about Dr. Glenn Doman. He is the founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and began pioneering the field of child brain development since 1940. He and the institute are famous for their pioneering work with brain-injured children and their work in early development for well children.Glenn has authored many books and materials that teach parents how to teach their babies at home such as…
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