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- National Adoption Awareness Month By Lisa Mathey
It is the wish of almost every child in foster care to be adopted. Either by a caring relative or family of strangers. Just someone who is there at night to provide comfort in the dark after a storm. Someone to watch them play a sport or act in the school play. November is an important month in making their wish come true. It is National Adoption Awareness Month.According to the National Adoption Council (NCA), states are not required to report the number of completed adoptions in a give…
- School Holiday Survival Guide By Jacqui O'Brien
The school holidays are a great time for the kids, all those weeks of fun and games, no school, getting up late……but not for their parents! Summer vacation time can be just as much like hard work as the rest of the year. Trying to keep the kids entertained for six whole weeks can seem like a daunting task, so here are ten top tips to help you survive the summer holidays.1. A little planning goes along way. You don’t have to time everything to the minute, but a plan of the next week’s events…
- The Nursing Mom's Legal Rights By Nanette Gomez
Breastfeeding is a loving and natural way to care for our baby's needs. Studies show the benefits of nursing are tremendous, not only to our baby but to ourselves and in our relationship with our baby. I nursed both my babies, and I loved it. It was the best choice for my babies and for me. Although, I will admit there were some drawbacks.I am sure you are well aware that breastfed babies as all babies, need to be fed on demand. They will let you know when they are hungry and rather loudly at …
- Parenting: Ten Things You Can Do to Develop Your Baby's Language Skills By Peter Andrews
The growth of your baby’s language skills is an amazing process. In the short space of a year, she goes from crying to speaking intelligible words.Can you do anything to help baby along? Apparently yes. There are ways to help the baby develop her language skills more easily and quickly.Keep in mind that these are only general guidelines. All babies do not respond equally to these actions. In some cases, you might not notice any effect at all.1. Talk to your baby. Babies can understand speech l…
- Thirteen Values You Can Teach Through Homework By Oma Edoja
Are you a parent concerned about passing values on to your kids?
Do you worry that you can’t find the time, or don’t know how?
You don’t need thirty-minute multi-media presentations!
You can do it with homework.
In those precious moments you spend supervising your child’s
homework, here are thirteen values you can subtly pass on:1) Responsibility:
It’s their homework, not yours, and it’s them being assessed,
not you. You’ll help, but they’ll do it, sans bribes and sans tantrums!2) Integrity…
- Parenting Your Teenager: Truth or Lie? By Jeff Herring
Attention all parents of teen-agers. Here is an important, groundbreaking and even shocking bulletin for you:According to research conducted at the prestigious-sounding Josephson Institute of Ethics in, of course, California, here are two startling pieces of information:1) 92 percent of teens surveyed admitted to lying to their parents at least once in the last year.2) 78 percent of teens surveyed admitted to lying to their teachers at least once in the past year.Have you gotten up off the flo…
- Top Ten Things Parents Must Know About State Academic Standards (What Your Child s/b Learning) By Detra Davis
Public education in the United States has never been equal for all students. It appears that those school districts located in wealthy communities have a bit more resources than those in poorer communities. Today more than ever, parents need to step up to the plate and learn how the educational system works. It is imperative that parents no longer leave the decisions made around the education of children solely in the hands of bureaucrats who likely have no children in the school district an…
- Parenting Your Teenager: 3 Ways to Make the Time By Jeff Herring
Every now and then I'll get a story sent to me by e-mail that is a no-brainer idea for an article. One of those came across my desk just the other day. It's called "I Wish I Had a Second Chance."Like many of these things, the author's name was not included. If anyone knows who the author is, I'd love to know so I can give him or her credit and thanks.Give it a read, and then let's put some 'hands and feet' on how to use it in your own life.My hands were busy through the day, I didn't have muc…
- 10 Universal Laws for Parents of Teens By Jeff Herring
1 "Law of Belonging": The greatest need of teenagers (after music and the phone) is a strong sense of belonging. They need to feel they are a part of something bigger than themselves. If they don't get it in a healthy place - with family, worthwhile friends, clubs, sports, youth groups, etc. - they will get it in an unhealthy place - with inappropriate friends, drugs, gangs or cults.2 "Law of Hope": Recent statistics show that one of the age groups in which the suicide rate is rising is adoles…
- Say No to Mealtime Mayhem: Eating Out With Your Baby or Toddler By Sharon Hurley Hall
Many parenting books advise against eating out with young children. Their short attention span and need to be involved in everything will mean a nightmare for you, they say. They're wrong. We eat out regularly with our two year old and have a wonderful time. Here are a few tips to make sure that you can do it too.First of all, make sure you choose a family-friendly restaurant. Look out for easily accessible (and clean) high chairs, a willingness to warm milk, free bibs and baby food (available…
- How Do You Find the Best Car Seat to Protect Your Child By Gary Hendricks
Choosing a good car seat for your child's protection is a prime consideration for any new parent. To give your child the best chance of escaping injury in the event of a collision, you'll need to a car seat suited to your child's age and weight.To choose a proper car seat, you'll need to understand that there are three main types of car seats for children. These are: infant car seats, infant / toddler (convertible) car seats, and booster seats.Infant Car SeatsIf you have a newborn baby, or you…
- Helping Your Kid’s Grow a Garden By Rondi Davis
Start some gardening traditions with your kids. Give them their own garden patch and a spot to dig. Children love getting their hands dirty and watching things grow.Be sure to buy good quality, child sized gardening tools. Plastic toy versions just won’t hold up to the task. You will also need children’s gloves and a watering can.Mark off the garden area and turn the soil. Kids can help break up any lumps with their hands. Work in some organic compost.Choose seeds that will grow quickly. Smal…
- Simple Living in a Materialistic World By Mark Brandenburg
We were sitting in the family room. My kids had finished their first day back at school after the holiday break, and my wife was working late. Michael, my six-year-old son, was finger knitting. Sarah, my eight-year-old, was knitting a scarf. I sat near them and folded clothes. Occasionally someone would share something that had happened during the day, but otherwise it was quiet.And as we sat there doing our chores, I began to appreciate this time we were spending together. The orgy of present…
- Parenting Your Adolescent: 3 Powerful Steps to Being an "In-Charge" Parent By Jeff Herring
Q. How do I overcome the 16-year-old who does things only on his time frame. For instance, when I ask him to do something, he intentionally takes his time just to upset me. I'm not sure what to do.A. This is a great question for at least two reasons: It provides an opportunity to share some basic principles for parenting adolescents and lets me deliver some solutions.Basic PrinciplesThe average 16-year-old is 16 going on 26 and 16 going on 6 all at the same time.Take the verbal ability and "wi…
- Financially Stable Kids – Prepared for College By Robb Ksiazek
We are all familiar with the stories that most students have when they finally get through those last days of college. Their financial states are in ruins, with accumulated credit card debt along with the student loans. Grants and scholarships are indeed blessings, but the reality is that students cannot possibly survive on financial aid alone.Most parents would love to send their kids to school. Unfortunately, many parents just do not have the funds necessary to pay for tuition, books, hou…
- Parenting Your Teenager: 3 More Dangerous Myths By Jeff Herring
MYTH: If you have not parented as well as you would have liked up until now, it's too late to try anything different.REALITY: This is one of those seductive little lies that sounds so close to the truth.But it's not.Even if you gave up being in charge of your kids long ago, it's still not too late to parent in a different way.They won't like it at first, but you don't need their permission, and you never did.You can, over time, get their cooperation.MYTH: Parents must be in control at all time…
- Raising Happy Diabetic Kids Part III Help Your Child Develop Self-Control By Russell Turner
This is the third and final article in a series I wrote about raising happy diabetic kids. While Juvenile Diabetes makes this job tougher the information in these articles applies to raising any child. Diabetic children aren’t any different from other children. Their pancreas just doesn’t work. However, the emotional toll that diabetes takes on a child, even when blood glucose levels are under fairly good control, must be taken into account whenever we consider what is best for them. We can be…
- Teaching Children Good Manners By Rexanne Mancini
Last week in my newsletter, I mentioned that my children knew how to behave in nice restaurants because they had been exposed to the atmosphere at an early age. My idea of well behaved might be different from yours, however, I think there are certain basics that are important and universal.
When my daughters were babies, we would take them wherever we went. If they began to fuss or cry, one of us would promptly remove them from the room/restaurant/market/wherever. Not because we felt their c…
- Simple Indulgences for September By Susie Cortright
As the kids go back to school, you can go back to *you*...your schedule, your friends,
your goals. Here are ten simple indulgences to celebrate this season.1. Invite your girlfriends over for a Back-to-School tea. Have lots of “pamper me”
items in hand. Do you – or any of your friends – know a massage therapist? Ask her to
come and do backrubs. Eat decadent pastries and drink coffee or tea. Catch up on
everything you’ve missed during the hectic summer.2. Go on a hike or a bike ride all by …
- Sustaining Romance After Becoming Parents By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
A major challenge for parents, especially new parents, is finding the
time to be together in ways that foster romance in their relationship. A
question that a reader recently asked me is: “Is it the quality of time
versus the quantity of time that is significant in 'we-time'? If yes, how?”Romance is determined far more by the quality of the energy between
two people than by the amount of time they spend together. If two
people spend all day together, but they are not open to each other
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- Send Your Child to College FREE! By Alli Ross
College is one of the largest expenses through the course of your child’s life. It is also one of the main causes of debt in America. With today's rates of inflation, it is very hard to save for an event that will occur eighteen years down the road. However, capitalistic America has provided many ways to send your child to college without paying a single red cent. Below you will discover just how easy it is to reach financial freedom.Property near college campuses has always been a prime inv…
- A Teen Life Coach on the College Homesick Blues By Susan Epstein
Leaving home and beginning your college career can be absolutely wonderful and extremely stressful. So whether you are a senior in high school preparing to go to college or you are at college looking for information about how to adjust to this huge change that has become your life, the following advice from an experienced teen life coaching may be for you.You are entering college, a new world. You have left everything that is familiar to you behind, including, your family, friends, and schoo…
- Missed Opportunity - Are My Parents to Blame? By Kathleen Carr
Parents have undying love for their babies which grows stronger and stronger each and every day.The infancy months where four hourly feeds are followed by the hand aching task of burping baby. Dribbles of milk flow through your fingers as the infant rests his/her weary scrunched up face in the palm of your hand fighting off the land of nod. What is baby thinking? As he/she loses the battle to stay awake.Then we have the nightmare months of the toddler years where mum and dad need eyes in the b…
- Get Down (On The Floor!) And Play With Your Children By Heidi Hoff
When was the last time you and your kids rolled around on the floor together laughing yourselves silly? If you're like me, it may have been a while! Sometimes I get caught up in household chores, give errands a priority or answer the phone when I know I should let it ring, instead of making time for my two daughters. It's not that I don't play with them; just the opposite is true. It simply seems as if I'm trying to fit them into my daily schedule when in fact I should be scheduling my day aro…
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