What drives a teenager to commit suicide? Is a dysfunctional family the cause of teen suicide or is it the peer pressure, low self-esteem, stress, access to drugs, guns, or an unyielding desire to make the pain disappear. Teenage suicide has and is becoming a pandemic in our country and around the world. Read more…
As most people would say, “quality is better than quantity”. In my opinion, a thousand toys are useless if they are no good at all. It doesn’t really matter whether you’ve got a room full of toys. What really matters is if these toys can help you and your chid or if they are of high quality. Read more…
Strollers have developed quite a bit in the past few years. In the past, if you were looking for a stroller you would have to choose between two main models: an oversized pram, (a large black stroller where the baby lies down), or a small, precarious stroller that your child would sit in, but would fly around the sidewalk and break easily. Read more…
With more and more households which have two working parents in them, child day care has become a very valuable and important service. It is perhaps one of the biggest expenses associated with parenthood in the 21st century. Read more…
Communication is difficult to maintain as your child reaches the adolescent years but this is the most important time to keep the lines of communication open and strong. So what can you as a parent of a teenager do to make sure you don’t lose this all important connection between you and your teen? Here are a few helpful hints you can use to make sure that when you do communicate with your child that you don’t end up doing more harm than good. Read more…