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Vegetables – Getting Your Child to Eat Them!By Dean Ing
Let’s face it, a lot of young children, openly declare they don’t like vegetables, with the rise in fast food and families cooking less and relying more on takeout, this has become almost epidemic. The huge rise in obesity is of much concern to many, families [...]

The Importance of Healthy Self-Esteem in Children
By Jayne A. Major
People with healthy self-esteem have an abundance of confidence. Failure does not slow them down. When one direction does not pan out, they look around for and expect a new direction to become available to them. They are tenacious, and their stick-to-it thinking keeps them motivated [...]

When Should Children Start Learning to Read?
By James Spellman
Most western countries start primary school education at age six. That is the age at which we believe most children can start learning to read. However, some children arrive at primary school already able to read. This does not happen by chance. Invariably, these children’s parents have [...]

Creating Respect Around Your Children
By Paul Quinnell
Have you ever felt exasperated at the apparent lack of respect you receive from your child? Does it irk you that your child argues with you constantly or simply walks away while you are speaking? Does your child mix with peers of dubious behaviour? Are you having problems enforcing [...]

Children, Christmas, and Hard Economic Times
By James Beverly
The current difficult economic times has many parents struggling over Christmas gifts and how it will affect their children this year. There are many families that are going to be forced this season to choose between food, mortgage payments, prescriptions, gasoline, and heating their homes. Although everyone is [...]

Picky Eaters – 10 Things You Can Do to Get Them Eating
By Ai Lian Lim
It’s quite stressful when you have a picky eater at home, don’t you agree? Everyday you crack your head thinking what you can cook that they will eat. The meal battles are no joy either. Having little children that are picky [...]

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. [...]

The Pros of Children’s Television
By Terri O’Neale
I admit it my two year old daughter knows the names of all the characters on Playhouse Disney. She absolutely positively has her first crush…on Winnie the Pooh. Do I sometimes feel like a bad mother for allowing her to watch more than the recommended one hour of television [...]

Discipline Starts at Home
By Jacques Sprenger
Modern western families are not, as a norm, teaching self-discipline to their children. External discipline, the one administered forcibly by parents and society, does not always translate into self-discipline. We could certainly learn from Asian families, especially Chinese and Japanese; their children behave splendidly in our American schools.
Parents may ask, [...]

How to Encourage Creative Thinking in Children Using Visual Art Supplies
By Anne Ream
I have a firm belief that everyone is born with creative abilities. My experience is that many people who are not aware of their creative abilities do not understand what creativity is. Unfortunately many people were not encouraged to develop their creative abilities [...]