Family life is one of the first casualties of the fast paced modern life. When you have two parents that both work and children busy with school and extracurricular activities, it is often that people forget to count their blessings and start ignoring their family. Read more…
Many parents will be concerned about the health of a child long before it is born. The parents will attend parenting classes to learn how to care for the child and learn about the right nourishment sources. This worry and anxiety is in the best interest of the children because the parents only want to ensure the baby is born healthy. They know that improper nutrition habits can have significant impact on the way a child’s body grows and develops and how internal organs mature and develop over a nine-month gestational period. Read more…
Parenting is a tough job. All too often we do not come to appreciate just how rough our parents had it until we become parents ourselves. While parenting has always been challenging, it seems that parenting today is even tougher than it was for the generations before ours. I believe that is is more difficult because we are raising our children in a far different world than our parents raised us. For the most part, our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had a pretty good parenting guide set out for them by watching the other members of their family and the world did not change the greatly from one generation to the next. In addition, previous generations of parents had a strong support system of not only examples but helping hands. Today, our mobile society and high rate of single parenthood (through divorce or from the beginning) have not only destroyed the support system of yesteryear but also created a lot more challenging childhood to parent. In our electronic age we do not lack for parenting advice and parenting tips, but it is so hard to pick and choose from the myriad of “helpful hints” to know just what will work for you and your child. However, just like so many other problems in life we are often our own worst enemies. Whenever the parenting choices get too tough then boil it down in importance by asking yourself one of these three key parenting questions. Read more…
Beyond making sure they have the right materials, parents often find themselves stymied by what they can do to help their children excel in school. While it’s not likely every little one is the next Einstein, the truth is every child can reach for and achieve their personal best. Read more…
As a parent, your baby’s “first sign” is greeted with as much excitement as your baby’s “first word”. For some parents though, the excitement is short lived as parents wonder what their baby is trying to communicate to them through baby sign language. Read more…