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Don’t Buy Your Child’s Love!
By Todd McMannus
Remember Vercua Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Here is a funny moment!
We all had a laugh watching this scene in the movie and many of us laughed when she fell down the shoot with the “bad eggs”. The problem with this is her father would buy everything [...]

Organic Food For Our Children?
By Justine Lee
With increasing health awareness worldwide, there has been an increase in demand and availability of organic foods. What exactly is organic food? It is basically foods that are grown or produced without the use of pesticides, artificial additives, hormones or other chemicals.
Some of the benefits are as follows:
• Food in [...]

3 Questions That Prompt Smart Decisions
By Michael Grose
Children at any time are either out of control, under control or in control.
Hopefully your children are not out of control but many parents think that they are successful if their children are under their control. This is a little scary because sooner or later kids will break [...]

Got a Spoiled Child? Here’s How to Cope
By Gareth A Williams
Amy was just putting away the groceries for the day when her daughter, Elizabeth, walked into the kitchen demanding the latest iPhone. Amy patiently told her daughter that she had already received another popular – and equally expensive – phone a few months ago; what [...]

No Time? Good News For Parents!
By Vicki Jardine
Moms and Dads from all backgrounds and all situations struggle constantly with the daily ‘daily-ness’ of being a parent. We all have the same 1440 minutes in a day. So how do we make sure we are ‘being there’ for our kids in the ways that matter [...]

Troubled Teens
By Linda Hancock
It is sad to think about the young celebrities who have recently been making headlines because of their drug and alcohol abuse, law-breaking antics and disrespect for society. They tend to blame those around them and the justice system because they are facing jail terms or ordered into rehabilitation. It seems pretty [...]

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, [...]

Methods to Improve Child – Parent Relationships
By Justine Lee
As the generations rolled by, gone are the days of a stringent parent-children relationship. Well my mum always recalled how much she feared her dad and the methods her father would use to discipline the kids. It’s a fact, times have changed. Methods used in the past [...]

How TV Affects Children
By Justine Lee
I must say all children grew up watching TV, myself included. It’s a utility which everyone cannot live without. It has been for generations and yet TV easily emerges as a indispensable form of entertainment. Of cause, the Internet is fast catching up. Let us look at the positive effects [...]

Parenting Your Kids With Love and Affection
By Harleen K
Your children need your presence more than your presents- Jesse Jackson.
Parenting is a process of raising and educating the child. It involves imparting right values to the children and not just fulfilling the basic needs of the child. It includes providing emotional strength and security [...]