Understanding Toddler Discipline

April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Parenting effectively is often the hardest task any person can undertake, and yet many parents are quite oblivious when it comes to how to go about instilling discipline into their children. There are a vast amount of toddler discipline approaches which abound in our modern times, and many contain very helpful and important information.

It is important to approach your particular child as a unique individual while at the same time laying the ground rules of who is actually in charge in the home. Children learn at a very young age how to Read more

The Importance of Having a Parenting Plan

March 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Parenthood is a very overpowering experience. There is no school or college that offers a class on how to become a good parent however there are steps that you can do on your own in order to become good parents. How? It is not as simple as it sounds but you can prepare your own parenting plan - a sort of a work in progress guideline that you can refer to time and again when the going gets rough and rougher! Read more

Sensible After School Activities for Better Child Development

March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

After school activities contribute greatly to your child’s development and should be chosen with care and wisdom. Aside from the regular academic curriculum, extra curricular activities have a great impact on a child’s emotional, physical, social and intellectual growth.

How then do you choose which one your child should engage in, Read more

Parents’ Role in Childhood Friendships is very Important!

February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sweet Childhood Friendships
photo by Sa’d Khorsid

Childhood friendships play a very important part in a child’s development. It greatly impacts his personality, emotional and intellectual maturity and at times, even the child’s physical development including, but not limited to, posture, body language and mannerisms!

Most parents may not be aware but they too play an equally important role in their offsprings’ forming of healthy childhood friendships. Parental behaviors, attitudes and acceptance of childhood friendships are vital to Read more

Guidelines on Parenting a Toddler Successfully

January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Parenting a toddler is one of the big challenges of parents in life. It is the most rewarding, full of fun, demanding and insightful experience of a father and mother during their life. The fact is, parenting a toddler does not begin or end at a certain point in life it is a continuous process because even if your child grows up into an adult, 99% of parents still see them as toddlers!

How does a parent deal with a child’s roller coaster moods to make him feel better?

The first thing a parent (mothers more so than fathers) is that they have to know how to successfully handle these situations in their life as well before they can comfort and Read more

Parental Guidelines on Managing and Treating Jealousy among Children

January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Managing and treating jealousy among young children is a problematic and sensitive situation for parents that require tact and diplomacy. More so, if you yourself have not undergone through sibling rivalry and jealousy incidents during your own childhood days.

Jealousy among siblings stimulates powerful emotions among the children themselves and the parents involved that, if left unchecked may sometimes lead to a lifetime of negative attitude towards the favored brother or sister in latter years. Read more

Parents’ Jam: How to Correctly Teach the Children to Respect You

January 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

How to teach the children to respect you is a familiar dilemma of most parents. Parental respect is usually the stumbling block of everyday parent-child relationships it is one of the most important values parents can teach their children. Children’s respect for parents derives from the parents’ self-respect; it is not an simply an abstract theory but more of being a role model in order to correctly teach your children life’s moral values.

However, you can only teach respect and love to somebody else only if you respect and love yourself! If you respect yourself, then Read more

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