Posts Tagged ‘parenting tips’
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreKids Who Succeed: How Parents Encourage a Work Ethic
How to Teach the Value of Work Kids who succeed learn a work ethic as they grow up. We all want our kids to share in household chores, make their beds, carry their plates to the sink, pick up towels off the floor, and have organized backpacks. It gives us fewer tasks, but more importantly,…
Read MoreActivities that Boost Your Intelligence as a Child, Teen and Adult
It is important to our mental health and well-being always to be actively learning for fun or profit. We multiply our neurons and enjoy life more when we feel proud that we are accelerating our learning. Here are 12 tips on increasing your learning prowess while having a good time as well: Listen to…
Read MoreHow to Prepare for a Move and Transferring Your Child to a New School
First Considerations There are many considerations when moving your child to a new school, especially when the school year is already in session. Considering the age and grade of your child is important so you speak in your child’s language and vocabulary pertinent to their stage of development. Remember that actual age and developmental…
Read MoreAre You Overly Worried About Child Abduction? Let’s Reason this out!
Parental Anxiety about Stranger Danger –ABDUCTION FEARS Abduction of children is statistically rare, yet parents often enough make it a high-level fear minimizing more obvious sources of trauma such as early loss, bullying, fears of COVID, mental illness in children and teens, parental and marital discord. So why is this not prevalent subject viewed as…
Read MoreShould Screen Time be Limited? How and Why
MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SCREEN TIME LIMITS There is a general misconception that screen time inhibits and isolates children and teens when in large measure the games and online activities are most often engaged by several children at once in grade school and high school promoting not only socialization but collaborative problem solving and an enrichment of…
Read MoreFocus on Your Well-Being: Live an Emotionally Healthy Life
10 Tips on Living a Mentally Healthy Life Living an emotionally healthy life is crucial to the well-being and productivity of children and adults. Here are some of my favorite tips: Get enough rest. Pursue an interest that inspires you either in your career or general life. Always continue to learn whether you are a…
Read MoreHow Moms Support Dads: Building Self-Esteem of Your Partner’s Parenting
Empowering the Nurturing Father Research in the last decade narrows the parenting field for fathers. It claims that fathers leave nurturing to mothers. It claims that encouraging risk-taking is the province of fathers. Mothers should take exception to this idea and can encourage shared parenting. Mothers Support Nurturing Fathers Mothers want their spouses to help…
Read MoreQ & A with Laurie Hollman about the Parental Intelligence Way with Lisa Day from Booktime
How long has your anxiety book been in the works? A book about anxiety in children began with the publishing of Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior in 2015. The Busy Parent’s Guide to Anxiety was an offshoot of that primary book. This first book gave a five-step approach to parenting that…
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