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Author :: Sapna Ganeshan  |
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| Article Title :: Mysteries of Language Development in Children |
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| The first step is to make time for the child in your busy schedule. Rework your life to give priority to the child. Spend quality time and read as well as sing songs to the child everyday. You could play soft music and other tapes like chants and so on in the child’s room at specific times each day. Music enhances memory and learning.Speak to the child and give the child time to respond. Make everyday activities a learning time—introduce names of foods, point to the bath tub and say bath, show the child the sponge or soap, help the child recognize the animals and toys in the bath by introducing things like “ baby duck—quack, quack.”Children listen, they learn how t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Gregory Bunyard |
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| Article Title :: Parents Shocked Back to Reality |
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| You don't just wake up one day and your flabby gut has disappeared and you are suddenly a champion batsman. I wish! I won't tell you what it takes to become a legendary batsman who can hit a cover-drive, on the up, off a ball traveling at over 150km/h between two agile fielders to the cover boundary for four. I do that very well in my dreams. Herschelle Gibbs does that better than anyone in world cricket. I suspect Gibbs will tell you (after a couple of clever chirps) that it takes skill and plenty of practice. The same will be true of teaching children 'financial fitness'. Without starting young, guidance and plenty of practice, they are just not going to wake up one day and everything i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Darrell Smith |
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| Article Title :: Six Ideas to Help You Discipline Your Kid |
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| Got a kid? Love him or her? Of course you do. So when he or she misbehaves on a consistent basis, what's the best way to administer discipline?Well, as you may be aware, there is a wide range of thought on this subject. One school of thought teaches essentially hand's off, and says, the little darlings are very intelligent, so let them figure it all out on their own. No punishment or reward systems. Still another extreme says that the Singapore model of "caning" people for littering is a good one.Most of us find ourselves in between these two nutty positions...and the word "nutty" is being charitable. If you don't think so, then stop reading. You're a lost cause and should f (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Henrietta Joyce |
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| Article Title :: Play Time: Fun Time, Learning Time, Bonding Time! |
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| I’m sure you’ve experience this parenting dilemma. The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful, hot day. Your daughter or son is begging you to take him or her to the park but there is a pile of washing in the laundry basket, a stack of dishes in the sink and countless other chores. On the one hand you want to spend quality time with your child but on the other hand the housework has to be tackled. What is a parent to do after all play is just play or is it? In this article I will explain, that children learn through play, different types of play and their value, how play helps the development of a person from babies into adulthood and finally, how playing with your child is an opportun (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kimberly Chastain |
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| Article Title :: Two Questions To Never Ask Your Kids, But We All Do |
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| We have all been there, the things you said you would never say when you are a parent come flying out of your mouth. We often don’t even realize what we are saying, in our moments of frustration. I want to start with two questions you should never ask your kids and why they are not good questions.Question #1 to never ask your kids, but we all do. Are you ready? This is a one word question. Why? Why did you hit your sister? Why is your toy in the toilet? Why did you do ______? First of all have you ever really gotten a good or acceptable answer to this question? I haven’t. I hit my sister, because she hit me. I like my toy in the toilet!! The problem with this question is it im (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeanne Webster |
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| Article Title :: Almost Columbine Again |
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| Yet again we are faced with the prospect of having another tragedy like the Columbine High school massacre. Police in the small town of Riverton Kansas arrested five male students just hours before they intended to carry out their plan to shoot and kill students and teachers.Shocking? Yes. Was it totally unexpected? No, or at least it shouldn’t be. Once Columbine occurred we should have all been prepared for a copy cat incident or several attempts at the repetition of the same horror. We should all stay prepared for more of the same.Why are our teens becoming increasingly violent and committing such unspeakable acts? The Sheriff of Riverton stated that all of the boys play (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Anthony Bloch |
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| Article Title :: Spitting In The Face of Twin Cities Parents |
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| I recently heard on a local morning radio show (KS95) that the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) have the highest daycare costs in the nation, right behind New York.I have no idea why the Twin Cities daycare costs are so high. At least New York has world class entertainment (theatre, concerts, and restaurants) and a high cost of living in general (high taxes and real estate).The same can’t be said for the Twin Cities, which has average entertainment and doesn’t have nearly the high cost of living as New York.This shocked me. So much for choice for working parents in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Many women are leaving the workforce because of the high cost of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Cornelius Babasanya-Craig |
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| Article Title :: The Baby Was Abandoned |
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| It is beyond imagination the magnitude of atrocities mothers commit to do away with their unwanted babies. Most likely than not, they love their babies. As it often happens, what one wishes may not be feasible, especially in this case, bearing the responsibility of bringing up a baby. Their resources are terribly limited. In their frustration and hopelessness, they do not fancy rearing their babies within the unpredictable and invariably hostile vicissitudes of life that manipulate their own lives. In spite of themselves, they lack the courage to smother life out of their beloved babies. With what could only have been the uttermost agony, they throw away the precious packet in a nonchalan (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Norma Schmidt |
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| Article Title :: 5 Easy Ways to Teach Kids Empathy |
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| One day my fourth-grader found himself out in the hall at school,
struggling with a math assignment.As my son stared glumly at the math paper on the desk in front of him, a
fifth-grader who was walking by stopped and asked, "Do you need
help?""Yeah, I was absent and I don't know how to do this," my son answered.The fifth-grader, who had never met my son before, gave him exactly
the information needed to complete the assignment.Two years later, my son remembers the fifth-grader's timely help.Even better, my son remembers the older boy's example of
empathy.We all want our kids to develop empathy -- that essential knack for
understanding (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Ellen Mossman-Glazer |
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| Article Title :: Social Skills and Problem Solving: A Coaching Method for Guiding Your Kids to Solve Problems Wisely |
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| When you want your kids to make better decisions, and especially teens and tweens, they are not going to change until they see that what they are currently doing is not helping them. To help them refashion their vision, you can be the catalyst without being the bad guy.Use the questions that follow to help your kids grapple with issues important to their lives-getting along with friends, getting homework done or making smart choices in the face of peer pressure. Kids have a lot of wisdom we don’t always see. By posing questions, you guide them to manage their lives without telling them what to do.Start as young and early as you feel your children are able to handle the th (read full article) |
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