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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 [...]

What I Learned From Being a Parent
By Ron Afable
Becoming a parent is embarking on a journey that never ends. Parenting may take different forms and functions as time progresses, but I believe no one ceases being one. Long after your child outgrows you, and leaves you, you remain the parent that loves and cares for [...]

Teenage Parenting – How to Help Your Troubled Teen
By Jim DeSantis
Is your teen son or daughter driving you over the edge? You are not alone! Parents of troubled teens around the world are realizing, that because of today’s stressful life, they need help dealing with a son or daughter who is making poor decisions. There [...]

How to Prepare Young People For the Real World
By Roger M Ingbretsen
While parents, care-givers or legal guardians cannot necessarily directly steer young people to the right career, they can play an important, if not “critical” role, in developing the personal qualities, attitude and mind-set, which will be of great importance no matter what career their [...]

Single Parenting – The First Lesson on Acceptance
By Cynthia Esquillo
As the number of broken marriages and pregnancies out of wed lock increases, the number of single parents also increases. At first, these events seem to prove how life can be so unfair. While the separation hurts both the couple, one would claim more pain than [...]

Tips of Positive Parenting Skills – Important Aspects of Parenting
By Wendy Pan
Parenting is a subject that drives intense emotion, raises important questions and is unique to each family. Parenting means different things to different people, but ultimately, parenting is a skill that needs to be learned and mastered. There are no set rules, no official [...]

Answering Children’s Questions – How Parents Can Survive This Challenge
By Abhishek Agarwal
Children, by nature, are inquisitive. While young, they question because they want a better understanding of something. When they become older, they question because they want a better understanding of why they must give importance to the same things that you do. Irrespective of [...]

Positive Disciplining – How To Discipline Your Children Without Hurting Them
By Abhishek Agarwal
Children, very often, try our patience and we end up losing our temper and calm. It is very easy to end up feeling annoyed, sad, angry, irritated, hurt and confused. These periods of time are the true test of our parenting skills. Therefore [...]

Teaching Your Child Honesty – How To Deal With A Lying Child
By Abhishek Agarwal
Honesty and dishonesty are qualities that a child learns at home. Often parents are perturbed when their child lies.
It is common for young children to tell tall tales and make up stories. This is a normal tendency as kids enjoy telling and [...]

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 [...]