Parenting

• Top Ten Ways To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids

  Having a high level of emotional intelligence in your children is the best way to ensure that they live a happy, successful, and responsible life as an adult. Here are ten ways to help your kids attain a high degree of emotional intelligence.

• What To Do When Your Child Is Stealing

  One of the more common problems that we as parents encounter, but that nobody likes to talk about, is what to do when your child steals. There are a number of different reasons a child steals and a number of different ways to handle the problem.

• Behavioral Strategy: Avoid The Grey Areas And Deal Only With Black And White

  Are you often a participant in an unraveling parent-child interaction? Well you’re not alone. Interactions between parents and their children often transgress before our eyes.

• Teach Your Teens About Credit And Reports

  We are failing our children in one of the most important areas of life. But, if more parents and schools understood the significance of credit reports and early credit education, that could be fixed. The credit failures and bankruptcy rates in the United States would decrease dramatically.

• Building Teen Character: Part-Time Employment

  The teenage years are a crucial time in a child’s life. They are not children anymore, but they are also not adults. During this time the choices they make may have an effect on them for the rest of their lives. It is the parents’ responsibility to guide their teenagers in the right direction by helping them make responsible choices and building their character to the point that when their teenagers move out of the house they are on the road to being responsible adults and have the tools they need to succeed in life.

• Finding Your Footing

  It’s really natural to feel pulled in a million directions when you’re a mother. And, unfortunately, some important goals or needs of yours can get pushed to the back burner indefinitely.

• Stepgrandmother Should Try To Understand How Stepgrandchildren Feel

  Parents in stepfamilies need to help their relatives try to view the world from the kids’ point of view. Keep reminding your parents that their stepgrandchildren really want to feel included.

• Hellllooooo? Is Anybody Listening?

  If a woman complains to her husband and there’s no one listening, is she still a nag? I personally have ordered hearing tests for at least three members of my familyall of them male. Why is it that my two year old son has no trouble at all picking up any blurted out obscenities that I (rarely) utter, but is totally immune to my cries of “watch out for the table” (whack) as he walks through the dining room?