Children Disciplining Tips - Learn How The Experts Do It And How You Can Too! If you want to know how to be a great parent or feel that you have been ineffectual up to now, read this article to get a few children disciplining tips from the experts. I say the experts because we need sound advice as parenting can sometimes seem to be the most difficult task in the world.Parents often ask if slapping kids is permissible when things get out of...more
Kids' Attitude - How To Change It For The Better By Using A Child Behavior Program I have just seen an interesting video on how we can change kids' attitude for the better by simply using gratitude techniques. The role of gratitude in happiness is well established and the more grateful we are, the happier we tend to be.Yet we rarely encourage kids to express their gratitude and that may well be one reason why their mindset at times is...more
Parent Teen Guide - Finding Out What Teenagers Really Think If you want some parent teen advice, read this article to find some surprising views from teens themselves about how they see parenting and what they would like from us.One thing which comes out from teenager surveys on parenting is their need to communicate with parents and vice versa. Maybe parents are not doing enough of this at all. It does seem that there is a shortage of good listening and communication skills going on here. The parent teen relationship is essentially built on trust. This comes through on all the surveys.The second surprise is that the teens need respect. Usually it is parents who are always complaining about the lack of respect. Well, it works both ways of course. It seems that there is a lack of respect for their feelings and beliefs and they want us to show an awareness at least of those.There is another factor which also comes out and that there is not nearly enough love and affection shown to teenagers. In addition, this lack of affection may also be compounded by a tense atmosphere between spouses who quarrel often. There is a lesson there for all of us.Teenagers have a very poor opinion...more
What Do You Do When You Catch Children Stealing? - Strategies To Help You Deal With This With very young children who like to steal toys from their siblings or friends, stealing is one of the parenting problems that we come across. The first thing we have to do is to try and teach the whole concept of ownership through examples of favorite...more
What To Do When Kids Lie - Strategies From Child Behavior Therapy We all tell lies and we even justify telling a white lie as adults because we feel that this method is better, safer and less trouble than having to tell the truth. We do it all the time and we tell lies so that we can avoid an embarrassing situation or get out of an...more
How To Parent Unmotivated Children - Strategies From A Child Behavior Program Can Work Wonders! How to parent unmotivated children can really seem like an uphill task and is full of obstacles, it seems. First let us look at the causes of lack of motivation and then examine which strategies could help to turn the situation around.Unmotivated children may display a lack of motivation for many reasons. If the child has no interest in going to school, there may be reasons for that connected with the learning environment. We need to know if there are any learning difficulties. There may be a problem with a lack of bonding on the teacher's part or there may be cases of bullying from his peers which would certainly discourage him from going to school. We also need to find out whether there is a nutritional deficiency and whether a lack of sleep or physical exercise may be affecting the child's motivation.But lack of motivation may just be the result of laziness. How can we encourage kids to do homework for example? There has to be rewards and consequences system built into the routine. I know some parents who always rewarded their kids when they got high marks and they ignored the...more
Oppositional Children? Time To Get Back In Control Again The behavior patterns of oppositional children usually follow a fairly well defined path. The first thing we notice is the defiance and the almost insatiable desire to have a...more
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The Gyro Bowl is an unprecedented As Seen on TV product made in 2010 that, according the makers of the device, is "100% kid proof." To put it simply, this bowl that is attached to an outer ring (which is also attached to an outer ring) can be filled...more
New ADHD Options - Looking At The Alternatives And Making Choices To Help Our Children In spite of great advances in the pharmaceutical industry, they have still not produced a totally safe medicine which will have few side effects and which...more
Safe ADHD Drugs - Looking At The Facts And Deciding Which Treatment Is The Right One For Your Child Any drug you take will have side effects and there may be risks involved. I take an alpha blocker for a prostate condition and it gives me...more
My Husband Only Stays Married To Me Because Of Our Children: Tips That Might Help I often hear from wives who tell me that their husband has either told them directly or made it very clear that he's not fully invested in the marriage (or even...more