By Lana Christian What scene do you face each day from dinnertime to bedtime? If you have kids, you’ll likely face at least a few of these: “I’m starving!” “That’s mine!” “I wanna …” “Gimme!” “Mooommmmm!” “He took ..” “She hit …” “Dad said …” “Can you?” No magic potion …
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How to Deal with Your Child’s Privacy
Letting Curiosity Get the Better of You! As a parent, you might struggle with your child’s privacy. While cleaning his room, the temptation to look at a crumpled stack of papers on the desk, flip through an unlocked diary, or poke around the closet can be too strong to resist. …
Parenting Teenage Girls
What’s perhaps even worse than the dangerous opportunities teen girls are at risk for is the fact that most of them will not talk to their parents about these dangers they face. No matter how good your communication is with your daughter, there are things she will not and cannot …
But I’m Just a Kid
My seven year old refuses to make her bed. The reason? I’m too young. Who, I demand to know, has told her she’s too young? But the question lingers with no answer, perhaps it was me who encouraged her to loiter in her babyhood for more number of years than …
Parenting – Key to being a Patient Parent
Patience is probably the key skill that a parent needs to master when it comes to dealing with kids. It always seems so simple and easy to lose patience, and yet so difficult and sometimes almost impossible to find more of it. Here’s some help… Communicate: Poor communication sabotages any …
Winning The Losers
Ever since we’re born, we’re expected to excel. Babies are pressurized to start talking, eating, walking, etc., as fast as possible. Once they reach the toddler stage, they are expected to learn their alphabets and numbers quickly. And the pressure to excel begins! We as a society are obsessed with …
Handling Toddler Tantrums at Bedtime
It is nighttime and the house turns into a battlefield where your toddler doesn’t want to sleep and you are adamant that he/she should sleep. Even though you have sung lullabies, read stories and played with him/her still your little munchkin is showing no signs of sleep. These testing times …
Separation Anxiety in Children
He refuses to go to school, he fears sleeping alone at night, and he cannot fathom spending a moment outside your shadow. What is this behavior your child is exhibiting? Should you be concerned about it? Every child has to deal with separation from parents in terms of having to …
Compulsive Behavior in Children
Compulsive behavior. Something that is a compulsion, that seems mandatory, the inability to do something which might lead to personal harm. Compulsive behavior? Certain patterns in behavior that the person feels he/she needs to follow. Compulsive behavior is a part of the wider term―Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and is a …
Conduct Disorder in Children
Conduct disorder can also be referred as ‘disruptive behavioral disorder’. Children suffering from this disorder have trouble following the social codes of conduct. The lack of social development in children inclines them towards violating laws and behaving in an anti-social manner. This condition mostly affects children in the age group …