Posts Tagged ‘Child Parenting’
YouTube for Children: How to Make It Safe
To ensure a safe online experience, it’s important to actively monitor YouTube for children. “Isn’t that your daughter?” You stare at your friend’s text message with the accompanying YouTube link a little shellshocked. Wait… what? That uncomfortable feeling of impending dread is washing over you as you click on the link. You almost forget to…
Read MoreHow Parents Can Be Supportive When Children Grieve a Loss
Children Grieve a Loss How parents can be supportive when children grieve a loss. Children thrive in a loving family environment. How devastating it is for them when this secure atmosphere gets ripped apart by death. Of course, you’re probably struggling with your own emotions surrounding the loss—anguish, worry, anxiety, depression. But your children feel…
Read MoreParents: How to Get Your Kids to Cooperate Without Child Shaming
If you make a child feel loved, you’ll foster cooperation and reduce the negative effects often associated with child shaming Sounds simple enough, right? But is it really that simple? Is just giving love enough? What happens when, despite you showering your child with love, they still don’t want to cooperate? Do you get annoyed?…
Read MoreHas Your Teen Learned Helplessness? – 5 Ways to Reverse the Problem
Has Your Teen Learned Helplessness? Your teenage son once again left his dirty clothes strewn all over the house. Yet, instead of nagging him about picking them up for the umpteenth time, you simply do it yourself. You teenage daughter constantly forgets her homework, lunch money, and sports gear. Rather than let her be without,…
Read MorePositive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection
Positive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection Harmony. If you’ve ever listened to an acapella quartet or a beautifully orchestrated symphony, you understand harmony. The harmonious interaction of voices and/or instruments leaves you uplifted, enchanted, and peaceful. There are no harsh sounds that prick your nerves and make you cringe… at least,…
Read MoreIt’s Normal to Make Mistakes! – 4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child
4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child Does your child… …expect nothing less than an A in all their classes? …view criticism as a personal attack? …avoid new projects because they’re worried they’ll fail? Of course, there’s nothing wrong if your child wants to do their very best. But it’s self-defeating when they strive after…
Read MoreParenting Challenges – 8 Tips to Avoid Spoiling Your Child
8 Tips to Avoid Spoiling Your Child Imagine the scene: A splendid throne atop an elevated platform. Two servants rushing back and forth, catering to the every wish of the crowned head seated upon the lofty chair. Exhausted from a day’s worth of conforming to the demands of the ruler, they finally bow with heads…
Read MoreSymptoms of Child Depression: How To Know If It’s More Than the Blues
Symptoms of Child Depression You’ve been watching your daughter listlessly poking around in her food. Spaghetti and meatballs are usually her favorite. The matter only serves to highlight the overall somberness you’ve observed in her lately. Especially, after that last report card hadn’t been as shiny as it used to be. That’s why you decided…
Read MoreMindfulness for Children: 5 Easy Ways to Make It Fun
Mindfulness for Children. These days, when you google the word you will find its lofty concept inherently connected to mental health and psychological therapy. That alone can make the idea a little intimidating to implement for adults. How could you ever explain or teach it to your children? It’s actually not quite as complicated as…
Read MoreKeep Yourself Sane – Use a Healthy Summer Sleep Schedule for Your Children
Healthy Summer Sleep Schedule for Your Children “Just 10 minutes more? Pleeeease!” “But I don’t have to get up early tomorrow…” “Can I just finish watching this ONE show?” Those may be some of the pleas and rationalizations you’ll hear from your children this summer. Once school is done and they’re on break, it seems…
Read MoreParents: Help Your Child and Yourselves by Breaking the Co-Sleeping Habit
A surprisingly large number of parents allow their children to co-sleep with them occasionally, and some even do it every night. However, continuous co-sleeping can have a negative impact on a person’s functioning – both on parents and children. The Problems Connected to Co-Sleeping Habit Often, children who have co-sleeping habits are less self-reliant and…
Read MoreHow to Recognize Your Role in Spoiled-Child Syndrome and How to Reverse It
A 4-year-old boy scolding his mother sharply for not getting him the food he wanted. A 7-year-old girl loudly interrupting her father’s conversation with another man, demanding to leave. An 8-year-old girl throwing a tantrum because her parents went to the movies without her. A 12-year-old boy shouting at his teacher for removing his cell…
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