Transitioning to Middle School

Parenting Tips on Helping Your Child Transition to Middle School Transitioning from Elementary School to Middle School is a great challenge for many kids. The expectations of meeting new kids from other schools, having more serious school work, and meeting different teachers are part of the concerns. Then there is just negotiating the new landscape.…

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Parents Need to Be Present When it Matters

  The Available Parent Parents need to be present when it matters for their kids – crisis times such as down days, difficult exams, relationship breakdowns, changes in family dynamics and important transition times. How do you know what stresses them out? How do you make it clear that you are available anytime your child…

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What’s the Parenting Style of Thinking Parents?

Thinking Parents are the Parents of Today Today’s mothers and fathers are thinking parents who want to learn about parenting from the start not only because they want to be good at raising newborns, but because it makes parenting pleasureable and satisfying. Moms are delighted to learn that their babies in utero are already recognizing…

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Tips to Help a Parent Cope with a Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

 How Does a Parent Cope with a Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Many children and teenagers are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Parents are familiar with the list of symptoms and often get professionals to help their child modify their disorganization, distractibility, and hyperactivity. But rarely are the parents given guidance on…

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How Do You Understand Why Kids Don’t Listen

When Kids Don’t Listen Don’t you wonder why kids don’t listen? You try your best but you have those days when your kids seem indifferent to you? No matter what you say or how you say it, it feels like it falls on deaf ears. It’s frustrating and annoying and pretty hard to tolerate, so…

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When Did You First Feel Like Mothering?

WHEN DOES MOTHERING BEGIN? Does mothering begin when you’re a little girl?  Watch your active, thriving three-year-old girl as she takes pillows and puts them in a circle. See how she climbs into this space with her baby doll, little play figures, favorite stuffed animal or  toy. Or, enjoy her construction of a fort with…

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What Kind of Praise Helps Children Take Up New Challenges?

How Do You Praise Your Kids? There is significant controversy about the use of praise. Some experts believe that children need to be praised almost daily to build their self-esteem. Others say, to the contrary, that too much praise makes children overly reliant on other people’s validation to sustain healthy self-esteem. This controversy makes it…

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