Parenting

• Do You Play With Your Kids?

  One of the things we struggle with is allowing ourselves to follow the rules and agenda of our kids. Especially when we’re tired. We’d much rather dictate the rules ourselves. But if you consider it, why wouldn’t they want to make the rules? My kids, like most other kids, spend much of their life following the rules of others.

• How To Potty Train Your Toddler? The Five Potty Training Methods

  There are many different ways to potty train your toddler. Based on my research and understanding, I break them down into the following five categories.

• Summary Of Toilet Training Readiness Signals

  Physiological readiness signals for potty training; Motor Skills readiness signals for potty training; Verbal and Cognitive readiness signals for potty training; Emotional growth and social awareness readiness signals for potty training.

• Why Kids Resist Potty Training?

  Children are often unable to explain the problems they have with our parenting techniques, and you child’s only option may be to resist your effort to potty train or toilet train him/her. When trying to discern the reasons behind the resistance, it may help to quickly review the following common causes.

• Will I Ever Sleep Again?

  If you are a like almost every other new father you are not alone in this question. It’s a fair question to ask especially after you’ve been up trying to soothe your screaming newborn.

• The Stranger In Your Child’s Life

  Would you let a stranger spend several hours with your child, communicating values, distracting them from homework, creating separation and distance from family? Even worse, would you let a stranger into your child’s bedroom?

• Burdensome Backpacks: Too Heavy To Bear?

  Is your child’s backpack too heavy? Is toting school supplies and books going to cause your child problems, both now and in the future? Before you let your child load up that backpack again, take a look at a few of the recommended guidelines below. It may just save your child from a future of chronic back pain!

• Understanding Biting In Child Care

  You have just picked up your toddler from child care and you notice a purple bruise on her hand. You then discover a note in your daughter’s backpack. The note is from your child’s provider informing you that one of your daughter’s classmates bit her!