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Author :: S. Denise Hoyle  |
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| Article Title :: Most Important Decision of a Lifetime - What to Na |
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Most Important Decision of a Lifetime - What to Name Your Baby
by: S. Denise Hoyle
Most people don't know the meaning of their name, but most names do have meanings. You should at least find out the meanings of your favorite choices before giving one of them to your child. The meaning of your child's name probably won't greatly affect his or her life, but may help you to make a decision between your favorites.
Many names are shortened to nicknames during childhood, or other stages of life, so be sure to think about what shortened forms of your child's name may be. Also consider that names we might think are cute for a child could be embarrassing later in life, before giving your chil (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Shelley Ruiz |
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| Article Title :: How Children Learn |
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How Children Learn
by: Shelley Ruiz
Nurture and Teach
The single most important thing caregivers can do for a child is provide a nurturing environment. By doing this, we influence children’s brain development and their ability to learn. Introducing nurtured children to learning opportunities every day will help them become happy, well-adjusted adults. In all stages of child development, each experience builds on the one before it. The most basic foundations can serve as the basis for the comprehension of more complex ideas in future years.
Learning Begins at Birth
We are born with billions of brain cells – in fact, all we will ever have. What is missing is a large amount of conn (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sharon Ellison |
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| Article Title :: I’m Sorry! Blame-Game or Accountability? |
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I’m Sorry! Blame-Game or Accountability?
by: Sharon Ellison
A powerful tool for health as we approach the new year can be to focus on giving and/or receiving only real apologies when we want to heal a rift with a family member, friend, or co-worker. We hear apologies all the time, but I don’t think many of them are sincere. An apology has to be real to heal.
Trang Lei spent the day helping Martha buy furniture and art for her remodeled living room, but Martha never even offered to buy Trang Lei’s lunch and so she felt unappreciated. Later when she told Martha she felt hurt, Martha said, “I’m sorry. I was just so excited about what I was buying that I didn’t even think ab (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Susie Michelle Cortright |
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| Article Title :: Celebrating Fathers |
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Celebrating Fathers
by: Susie Michelle Cortright
On Father's Day, we celebrate the guys in our lives. Not just our dads and the fathers to our children, but all the men who have made a positive impact on a child’s life.
A number of recently published studies call attention to the effects of good fathering. Men who play an active role in their children’s lives stimulate all aspects of development: emotional, academic, behavioral, and social, even when those men don’t live in the same home as their children.
But we don’t need a study to understand that the men in our lives matter, whether he’s a husband who lives at home, an ex-husband who lives across town, a stepfather, a gran (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sharon Ellison |
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| Article Title :: Get Out of Jail Free: Stop Being Defensive |
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Get Out of Jail Free: Stop Being Defensive
by: Sharon Ellison
When Marcus and Sally first met they immediately felt like kindred spirits. Marcus was generally warm and open. But as their relationship continued, Sally noticed that sometimes when he was upset he had trouble talking. When she asked Marcus what was bothering him, he would reply that nothing was wrong. Only when she coaxed him would he eventually tell her. As time went on, his resistance increased. The more she probed, the more reluctant he was . . . neither of them felt an ounce of kinship; they didn’t even like each other. (Taking the War Out of Our Words, pp. 8-9)
Sadly, this is how many of us expect a relationship to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sharon Ellison |
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| Article Title :: Responding to Criticism Without Being Defensive |
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Responding to Criticism Without Being Defensive
by: Sharon Ellison
In an actual war, to be attacked means to have our survival threatened. Thus, we might chose between surrender, withdrawal, or counterattack. When we feel attacked (criticized or judged) by others in conversation, we often move into that same kind of survival mentality and automatically defend ourselves. But conversation is different than war. When we defend against criticism, we give more power to the criticism and the person dishing it out than is warranted.
While we might need to set some limits if someone is verbally abusive, I think we often ward off criticism far too soon, discarding anything that is valid, as w (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Benetta Strydom |
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| Article Title :: Spelling Games |
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Spelling Games
by: Benetta Strydom
The following spelling games can be used by parents to reinforce spelling in children:
SPELLING GAME 1: USE BOARD GAMES, SUCH AS MONOPOLY
Play any game that is normally played with dice with the child -- Monopoly, for example. The parent can continue to move her token forward in the normal way by throwing the dice, but the child must orally spell a word to move forward.
To select words that can be used, the parent can use words from the child's schoolwork that he often misspells. She must make word cards of these words. It is best to use not fewer than 20 words and not more than 30. When playing a board game, the same 20-30 words can be used, or if (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Malti Bhojwani |
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| Article Title :: Marriages May End But Families Are Forever |
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Marriages May End But Families Are Forever
by: Malti Bhojwani
It was at that time when our marriage was falling apart and we completely hated each other when we needed to work constructively as parents, as our child’s world was crumbling too.
I have been divorced for over five years now and have a beautiful eleven year old daughter. My ex-husband has re married. They now have a baby girl. I get along very well with my ex husband and his wife and there are many reasons for this friendship.
Deciding to have a child was a separate commitment from the one we made to marry each other. So, from the time we divorced, we decided that we would not let that come in the way of us constructive (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Murdo Macleod |
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| Article Title :: 5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math |
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5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math
by: Murdo Macleod
Uh oh.
Your kids arrive home with their school reports and it's poor marks from the math department. Now what do you do?
You may not be a math teacher, but thankfully there are ways you can help your kids improve their grades.
Studies have shown that children are much more likely to perform well in a subject that interests them.
So here are 5 ways to get your kids excited about math and actually looking forward to the next math class:
1. Inspire them.
Some kids don't enjoy math because they just can't see the point of it. Unlike reading or painting, all those mathematical symbols and numbers don't seem to mean anything.
W (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: David Leonhardt |
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| Article Title :: Painful Lessons from the Maternity Ward |
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Painful Lessons from the Maternity Ward
by: David Leonhardt
Whoever dubbed New York, New York "the city that never sleeps" should visit The Maternity Ward. My recent visit included a drop-in on several screenings of "A Star Is Born" at the late-show theatre, right near Mama's Breast (all night milk bar) and Papa's Gas Station ("We burp you on your way.").
To a chorus of infant cries, I drafted this column at 1:00 a.m. Of course, it was 3:00 p.m. in Tokyo, so I suppose it wasn't so late after all.
The whole experience of birthing seems to be a very traumatic way to build a family. Fortunately, it did lead to two very happy results. It gave me a new daughter, Lauralee, the Little S (read full article) |
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