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 …