Parenting

• Four Tips To Help Toddlers Be Sweet With Their Feet

  Toddlers are bundles of energy, and they love to run, jump, tumble, and explore all the wonderful things their legs and feet help them do. However, when children this age are angry or frustrated, they tend to lash out with their voices, hands and feet (anyone who has been kicked by a tantrum-throwing toddler knows how much it can hurt!).

• 6 Questions To Ask Your Child’s Teacher At Conference Time

  Your child has been in school for several weeks now. Parent/teacher conferences are fast approaching. Will you go in clinching your teeth and holding your breath, hoping not to hear news of your child’s poor performance? Will you conjure up feelings from when you were a child and your parents returned home with news from the teacher? Have you given any consideration to what you want to learn from that meeting? Will you sit quietly and listen? Or will you ask questions? If so, what will they be?

• The Value Of Play

  Isn’t it ironic that a country whose constitution allows for the pursuit of happiness now feels a collective guilt about the very idea of anything fun? How did this happen? When did we begin placing so much priority on productivity and so little on leisure or on having a good time? Even given the Puritan work ethic, life in America has become so unbalanced that one side of the seesaw is pretty much grounded.

• Questions To Ask Your Pediatrician

  When you go and see your child’s Pediatrician, you expect to be asked quite a few questions. How long has she been sick? What symptoms does she have? What treatments have you already tried? Do they make her better or worse?

• 10 Steps to School Year Success

  One of the most important aspects of parenting is ensuring that your child gets a good education. School is a place where your child not only learns skills such as reading and writing; it is also where your child will learn about friendship, responsibility, and fairness. In short, school is a test run for the real world’, and your child needs your help to navigate this complicated arena. When your child was a baby, you set your life around nap times and diaper changes, now your growing child needs you to set your life around school.

• Translating Mom-Speak and Dad-Speak

  In relationships, women generally tend to focus on feeling connected, while men are sensitive to status and dominance. For instance, a mother could think her husband will welcome her knowledge because he wants to come together with her in raising their children. Yet he could interpret her parenting tips as condescending or controlling.

• Mowing Down Only Child Myths

  When someone, perhaps your mother-in-law or friend, tells you need to have another child, here are the real facts about only children and the myth of misfortune that wrongly still surrounds them. The facts are based on decades of new research.

• Eleven Must Do’s In Preventing Back to School Stress

  Some parents will wait to the last minute to get everything in order but it need not be that way. Here are a few tips to squash back-to-school stress… before it gets the best of you.