Angry Kids and the Parents Who Love Them

ASK YOURSELF AS A PARENT: Does your child’s alarm clock turn a wake-up call into a moody battle? Does your teen drop all his clothes on the floor so you can’t walk through his room? Or do you feel like your teen is freezing you out with a glare in his eyes? How do you…

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The Importance of Play for Children

Play is a Child’s Work: How Parents Encourage Creativity and Learning Play is how children learn, discover, express curiosity, and communicate. Different kinds of play bring out different aspects of our kids’ personalities and points of view. Parents can help their children learn, make new discoveries, and enjoy adventures by encouraging play time activities. When…

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An Extraordinary Monologue (short nonfiction)

An Extraordinary Monologue     At my bi-weekly visit to the nail salon. I’m seated immediately next to a glum, looking stocky woman almost in a trance. I feel like moving to another chair but don’t. She has brown, short clipped hair with bangs and dusty gray eyes. Her fake oval nails are the longest…

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Making Kindergarten Awesome

Preparing Kids for Kindergarten This is an all-time favorite topic for me because I love happy kids in kindergarten. They come thriving on socializing, and running around; some even read, and others don’t know what a letter sound makes. That’s what makes them so interesting!! But definitely, everyone has to figure out how to separate…

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Toddler Tantrums

WHAT IS A TANTRUM? A tantrum occurs when a child’s whole system of managing feelings and thoughts collapse. It is a communication that happens suddenly. The child may lay down on the floor, scream, kick her feet, throw her arms about, and twist her body violently. If the parent becomes frantic, so will the child.…

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