Parenting Guru

January is prime season for taking exams. The first half of the year is over and it’s time to show all you’ve learned until now. Read more…

Sometimes, communicating with our children can be a daunting task. We feel like they’re not listening to us; they feel like we’re not listening to them. Good listening and communications skills are essential to successful parenting. Your child needs to understand that his or her feelings, views, and opinions have worth, and we should all make sure we take the time to sit down and listen openly and discuss them honestly. Read more…

The teething process can be quite a traumatic time for babies and parents alike. The good news is that there are various different home remedies that you can try at this stage in an infant’s life. Home remedies for teething are often much more favored by parents as they are safe and do not contain any type of alcohol or other medication. There are lots of home remedies for teething, but here are a few in particular that stand out from the others. Read more…

All parents deal with the difficult struggle of keeping their kids safe. You have to find a perfect balance between keeping them safe and letting them find out about the world. You don’t want them to be over-sheltered, but you also don’t want them to be in danger. It’s very hard to find the right balance, but it is possible. Your techniques must change over the years as your child gets older. For example, a stern “no!” and a spanking work wonders for a 3-year-old, but are likely to only make the situation worse when dealing with a teen. Read more…

There seems to be a general tone among parents today when it comes to the topic of helping their child learn a second language, particularly English-speaking parents of young children. Just this morning, in our local Starbucks, a mom approached me after seeing the magnetic signs on my car that tout my business and its benefits. She asked me if I also taught adults Spanish, to which I quickly and definitively replied with a negative, a no. Her feeling was that she had to know the language before bringing it into her child’s world. Read more…