Boosting Your Teenager’s Self-esteem – Important Tips For Parents
By Abhishek Agarwal
Every parent, ideally, would like their child to develop enough Self-Esteem so that they can succeed in life. This all starts the moment a child emerges from birth, and continues as the child ventures out into the world, as they mature into adulthood.
Studies show [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Boosting Your Teenager’s Self-esteem – Important Tips For Parents
Challenges Faced By Single Parents – How To Overcome Them
Challenges Faced By Single Parents – How To Overcome Them
By Abhishek Agarwal
There are two ways most single parents try to fight these feelings. One way is to try and balance out the single parent role by acting as both mother and father. The other way is to embark on a personal mission to [...]
Teaching Our Children About Respect
Teaching Our Children About Respect
By Kevin Goh
Let’s be frank – preschoolers aren’t exactly models of respectful behaviour all the time and it can often seem as if little ones at this age are at their most trying. But don’t despair – teaching children respect is a process that can be put in place from [...]
How to Discipline Your Child
How to Discipline Your Child
By Chandra Alexander
Are you constantly fighting with your child about discipline? If you are totally exhausted from parent/child battles that occur on a daily basis in your house, learn how to discipline with peace and dignity.
1- Differentiate between not liking the bad behavior and still loving the child.
This is the most [...]
How to Teach Your Children Responsibility
How to Teach Your Children Responsibility
By Jayne A. Major
What are we striving to achieve when we say that we are raising children? When children can accept full responsibility for the consequences of their choices, they are “grown up.” It takes a long time, at least 21 years, for a child to become an independent person. [...]
Single Parenting – Revealing the Authority Figure
Single Parenting – Revealing the Authority Figure
By Cynthia Esquillo
Growing up in an environment full of authority figures creates experiences that may put more harm than good things for the children. Ordering the children to do this and that, and don’t do this and that is one example of how authority figures tend to manipulate the [...]
7 Powerful Tips – How to Communicate With Your Teenager
7 Powerful Tips – How to Communicate With Your Teenager
By Carole Barnerias
Tip 1: Your teenager is usually one or more steps ahead of you, so do not try to be clever in opening up communication. Communicate naturally and if you have some difficult things to discuss, keep the tone of your [...]
Children – Eating Well & Healthfully
Children – Eating Well & Healthfully
By Melissa Melcombe
Diet is probably the most important factor in maintaining your child’s Immune System.
Whether you have a toddler or are raising a young adult, life is about living in balance, and everyone is different. However, good nutrition is the foundation of good health, and our nutrient needs change daily. [...]
How to Discipline Without Creating Fear
How to Discipline Without Creating Fear
By Ali Bierman
More than once in my life the disturbing sound of a screaming child took me out of my sleep or away from what I was doing…only to find the mother had locked the child out of the house intentionally. I am talking very young children who were so [...]
Negative Impact of Physical Abuse in Children
Negative Impact of Physical Abuse in Children
By Anurag Ahluwalia
Childhood physical abuse involves the physical injury or maltreatment of a child or adolescent under the age of eighteen. Physical abuse includes hitting, punching, slapping, kicking, shaking, burning and other ways of inflicting pain. Other forms of physical abuse include not giving a child food to eat, [...]