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Author :: Brent Sitton  |
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| Article Title :: Ready Your Child For Reading |
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| It's never too soon to start your child on the path to reading. Simply talking to your infant and toddler helps her develop the vocabulary she will need as she enters school and begins to read. As you point and name objects, she will begin to understand the meaning of words, and will eventually begin to incorporate those words into her vocabulary.
The U.S. Department of Education recommends beginning to read to your baby when she is six months old. According to their 2003 report, "Hearing words over and over helps her become familiar with them. Reading to your baby is one of the best ways to help her learn."
In that same report, the Department of Education also reco (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Laurie Meade |
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| Article Title :: 5 Simple, Free and Easy Ways to Show Your Kids How Much You Care |
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| As a work at home mom, I know I spend more time on the computer than I really should. It is at these times, when my 11-year-old daughter accuses me of "being married" to my computer, that I have to stop and re-think some of my values as a parent.
Our kids are young for such a short time. The job, and the need to keep money coming in, will always be there. Our precious little ones won't always be little, though.
Here are some simple ways to show your kids, no matter what their ages, that they are important to you.
LISTEN. This is so easy to do, yet so many of us have such a hard time with it. Drop what you are doing, look your child in the eye a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kirsten Hawkins |
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| Article Title :: Extra-Cute Baby Outfits |
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| Parents live vicariously through their children and play dress-up.
One of the joys of being the parent of an infant comes in the form of choosing cute outfits for the baby to wear. Over the years, parents have narrowed this down to an art, finding and choosing the most adorable outfits that they can imagine and making it seem that every day is Halloween for their infants and toddlers. While scary and grotesque outfits rarely show up on a baby even during the actual Halloween holiday, there are plenty of parents that like to dress their sons as baseball players and their daughters as princesses. ItÂ’s almost as if the parents start to relive a second childhood through their in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Pete McFraser |
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| Article Title :: Paternity Testing Regulation: Help or Hindrance |
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| Paternity Testing Regulation: Help or Hindrance?
The French legislation has passed a law which prohibits testing for paternity without the involvement of the court system. Article 16-11 of the civil code states that in order for an individual to legally conduct a paternity test, he or she must first have a court-appointed lawyer assigned to his or her unique case. The court then has control to decide the consequences of the paternity test results. This article will explore how one manÂ’s red tape is another manÂ’s due process.
Introduction
he internet has opened up opportunities for many DNA laboratories to distribute free paternity test (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Are You Addicted to Your Children? |
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| Is it possible to be using our children addictively?
Anything that we use to get love, avoid pain, and fill up inner emptiness can become an addiction – even our children! If your children are your whole life – if you don’t have a strong spiritual connection with a personal source of love and guidance, as well as other relationships and interests that you are passionate about, you might be using your children to fill an empty place within you.
If you donÂ’t have a partner or your relationship with your partner is not fulfilling to you, and you donÂ’t have deeply connected and meaningful friendships, then you might be using your kids as your major e (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Authoritarian Parenting, Permissive Parenting, or Loving Parenting |
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| Angie was brought up by rigid, authoritarian parents who kept her on a tight leash. They rarely considered her feelings about anything, showing a complete lack of empathy and compassion for her feelings and desires. If she came home five minutes late from school or from an activity, she was punished. Yelling and hitting were their favorite forms of punishment.
Angie was a good girl. She did well in school and did what she was told, but was often sad and lonely and never felt important. When she married and had her own children, she knew that she didnÂ’t want to treat her children the way she had been treated. She wanted to consider their feelings and needs. She wanted them to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Caretaking Parents, Entitled Kids |
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| Demanding children – children who have entitlement issues – seem to be common these days. Like the obnoxious child, Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, who was constantly demanding that her father get her whatever she wanted (“I want an Umpa Lumpa! Get it for me NOW!”), we hear many children today uttering the fairly constant refrain, “I want ….! Give it to me! Get it for me, now!” They seem to be masters at instilling guilt in their parents through phrases such as “It’s not fair!” or “You don’t love me!” or “What about what I want?”, or by getting angry, shutting down or crying piteously.
Why are ther (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. |
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| Article Title :: Kid Time And Couple Time |
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| Summary: Are you having trouble finding time to be with your children and to be with each other? Discover how important this balance is, and what may be the underlying issue in the way of couple time.
A reader emailed me the following question:
“Many dads and moms, especially those that work full-time, are torn by guilt when it comes to time allocation. They have been away from the kids so long during the working week that the weekends MUST be spent with them. Result: There is simply NO couple-time. Any suggestions?”
One thing that is often not realized by parents is that a happy and harmonious marriage is one of the greatest gifts they can give (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Empty Nest Syndrome |
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| PaulaÂ’s last child had just gone off to college and Paula was struggling with a deep inner emptiness. While she knew this day was coming, she was not really prepared for the intense hollowness that welled up within. After all, she had a life of her own. Her work as an occupational therapist, which she had gone back to after all her three children were in school, was fulfilling to her. She was fortunate in having been able to schedule her time to be home when her children came home from school so she could take them to their various activities. Paula had been a loving and devoted mother and was very proud of her children. She had been looking forward to this time for herself and her husba (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: 10 Commandments of Parenting |
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| Michael GroseÂ’s
10 Commandments for Parenting
Here are the wisest commandments ever commended to parents:
1.Thou shalt be consistent. Do as you say you will. Children know where they stand when you are consistent, follow through and mean what you say.
2.Thou shalt expect children to contribute (without being paid). Expect children to help at home but donÂ’t expect them to do so graciously all the time. Here is a question to ask yourself from time to time: What do your children do that someone else relies on?
3.Thou shalt encourage regularly and persistently. Remember that encouragement and praise will get children a lot furth (read full article) |
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