Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

Make her a Happy Mom with the Right Gifts!

Many Moms have a constant need to get their kids new toys. This is something that happens even before the first baby arrives. Men on the other hand, often don’t get why the child needs more toys when it is hard to get into his or her room due to all of the colorful plastic [...]

How to be a Good and Happy Mom

You’re a Mom and you wish you knew all the answers to life’s riddles. OK, maybe not every one of them but it does help to know what to do when the kids are acting nothing like what the Baby Book recommends and more like something that could go on out in the wild. Don’t [...]

Trouble With Parenting – single Parenting Troubles

If you’re a couple having difficulty in parenting, single parenting is probably more difficult. Single parents sometimes choose their role but, more often, they are single parents because the other parent has divorced them, left them or is in jail. As a single parent, the individual must make all the family decisions unilaterally. If the [...]

Positive Parenting

You may not realize it but one of the best things that you can contribute to your childrens personality is by creating your own positive parenting method. This would be very useful and helpful for you especially if you have kids ageing from 4-12 year of age. Though no matter what age your children are [...]

How to promote Parent-Teacher partnership?

n these times of dual working parents and super-busy lifestyles, it’s even more difficult to build relationships with families and engross them in your programs. When parents are lively in their child’s education, best learning is much more likely to arise, but there’s also something in it for you. Not only are parents experts on [...]

Joyful Parenting

Tip 1. Develop humour through: Having joke nights Joke of the week on the fridge Having fun times eg leisure activities. Laughing at oneself and the situation. Tip 2. Have a system of discipline which promotes joy. Rules with rewards rather than punishment. Focus on what the children do right rather than on what they [...]

The New Face of Autism

By Matt Stringer Harrison Carroll, 9, struggled with his mom, Veronica, every morning before school. Veronica would physically pull his arms through his shirt sleeves before hauling him off to school. He didn’t want to go. That may sound like a morning in any number of homes across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But, Harrison has [...]

Financial Security for Special Needs Children

By Daniel Roccato Parents of special needs children know both the joy and challenge of caring for them. If you are one of these parents, chances are pretty good that you have special “financial” needs. A “special needs trust” may be part of the solution. What is a special needs trust? In a nut shell, [...]

Learning to Observe Your Child

By Tim Seldin As parents we often feel the need to direct our children, but Maria Montessori, who founded the method of Montessori teaching, believed we should learn from what our children are doing instead. How much time do you spend watching your child? I don’t mean watching half-heartedly while you are doing something else. [...]

Parenting Skills

To become a parent is the dream of every normal human being. The time one becomes a parent, he/she along with his/her partner get ready to shoulder a much greater responsibility of one’s lifetime. Most new parents are advised by their relatives, friends and others on parenting and what to do and not to do. [...]