What to do if your child feels in competition with your work
Is your child feeling in competition with your work? It can be possible to have a satisfying, meaningful career and be an attentive, loving parent. Try these universal guidelines.
Preventing Teens From Abusing Alcohol
A child who feels a loving bond with a parent, will feel valuable and have more of an ability to withstand peer pressure.
How to Raise a Securely Attached Child
Simple, practical tips for developing emotional trust.
Does Your Teen Procrastinate?
Can’t get through to your teen on procrastination? Try a different way.
The Life Lessons of Children
Adults who can recognize children as teachers can learn some life skills that might improve their own life experience.
Adolescence and the Parental “No”
A parental "no" is a barrier to adolescent freedom. Parents have to decide when to keep the barrier up and when to let it down.
How to Help Your Kid Pick a College
'Tis the season for high school seniors to pick a college. If your child is making this choice, discover five ways to help.
Kids Using Smartphones
Worried about your kids using smartphones? Monitoring, use, and privacy guidelines for parents.
Kindling Your Child’s Enthusiasm for School
No other generation has had to cope with this ever-increasing fund of information. Improved technology and more information has led to more memorization & less meaningful learning.
Helping young children understand and build friendships
Play, from early in our lives, creates the vocabulary of friendship.
10 Ways to Use Walks to Teach and Bond With Young Kids
Walks are a perfect way to help children learn concepts and have memorable experiences related to science, language, math, senses, nature, joy, and the community.
Fostering Independence In Your Child
Resisting the urge to rescue and over-assist can make a huge difference in your child's sense of self.
Chaos at Home Can Hamper Parenting of ADHD Kids
Household chaos tends to have a direct negative effect on the emotions and behaviors of parents of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study by German researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and the universities of Bremen, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Kiel.
Kids’ Poor Sleep Tied to Later Cognitive, Behavioral Issues
A new study find that children between the ages of 3 and 7 who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have problems with attention, emotional control, and peer relationships in mid-childhood. Published in the journal Academic Pediatrics, the study found significant differences in the responses of parents and teachers to surveys regarding executive function — which includes attention, working memory, reasoning and problem solving — and behavioral problems in 7-year-old children depending on how much sleep they regularly received at younger ages. “We found that children who get an insufficient amount of sleep in their preschool and early ...
3 Mindfulness Tools Parents Can Use to Bond With Children
Setting specific, clear intentions can help parents create rich, meaningful relationships with kids and partners. Here are 3 creative ways to apply intention to family life.
What if your child chooses to do Wrong?
Punishment drives the feelings underground and makes the bad behavior worse. Healing the feelings that are driving the behavior is what prevents a repeat of the misbehavior.
How Children Learn Right from Wrong
When children feel close to their parents, they want to "follow" them. Going against their parents would be going against the most important people in their lives.
Prepare Your Child for College by Teaching Resilience
Is your high achieving high school student resilient enough for college?
Five Ways to Be a Better Parent to Your Child With ADHD
Children with AD/HD have unique needs and present unique challenges for parents. How can you best meet these needs? Read on to learn more.
Child Abuse Can Increase Risk of Adolescent Misbehavior
Researchers have discovered that an important learning process is impaired in adolescents who were abused as children. Experts believe this impairment contributes to misbehavior patterns later in life.
The theory holds that associative learning, or th...