Positive Parenting

Family Fun - Life with Purpose

There are many ways to keep your family happy. These tips will help you do just that!

• 3 Secrets Happy Family

How Was School?

Does getting your kids to offer information about school seem more difficult than pulling teeth? Do you ever feel like a lawyer cross examining your child in an attempt to find out what's really happening at school?

• How was school?

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children contains useful information for those parenting or grand-parenting a typical child, a smart child, or a gifted child.

• Gifted Children

Any new social scene can be really tough. Having all new classmates, joining a brand-new group of kids on a soccer team, transferring to a new school, going away to camp alone and most of all moving isn't easy. Here are some ways to help your child fit in from Michele Borba, Ed.D.

• Help Kid Fit In

If you want to save money on groceries, check what you have in your refrigerator or freezer to make a weekly food plan and follow these 25 proven ways to save money from Michelle Sharrow MBA.

• Save on Food

Thanksgiving conjures up images of family gatherings, football games, and fun. What better way to enjoy the family than curling up with a good movie?

• Kids and Teens Videos

Teaching children to care can start with any service project of your family's choosing.

• Caring for Others

Extracurricular sports seem to be all around us. Kids are enrolled in soccer teams, baseball leagues and gymnastics.

• Living vicariously through child

Families traveling over Thanksgiving or December holiday breaks can transform travel games into learning opportunities

• Improve Kids Reading

Most parents want to raise a confident and competent reader. Yet, they are often unsure of what to do. In the remainder of this article we will explore some important do's and don'ts

• Raise a Reader

Books toddlers to teens will love. Aside from subject matter, finding a book that is the appropriate level for your child's age and reading ability can be a challenge.

• Ideas for Kids Books

Leaders are very influenced by the words and actions of those raising them. Everything that we say and do influences our children. They mirror our actions as we are their first examples of relationships, and of people interacting.

• Raise a Leader

Teach you children the real meaning of "please" and "thank you" and how to grown up to be caring and kind people.

• Foster Gratitude

These Top 10 ideas of fun things to do with your family will be enjoyed by all and affordable too!

• Low Cost Family Fun

I am concerned about my 4 year old daughter. From the time she was about 4 months old, she has sucked her thumb and played in her hair, particularly while sleeping.

• Advice Child Psychologist

Modern grandparents hold an unique position within families as the link to traditions, culture and history.

• Grandparents Day

Remember when morning rush hour‚ just referred to traffic jams? Now that you‚ are a parent, it means getting out the door on time in the morning, especially when you need to get to daycare drop-off before work.

• Morning Rush Hour

While it's important to protect and reassure our children in today's turbulent times, here's how to focus on courage and understanding to overcome anxiety, fear and depression.

Positive Parenting: Creating Healthy Boundaries in Step families

To have a healthy and happy stepfamily you must know the importance of boundaries. Stepfamilies are difficult and many fail, often because the children don't get along at all.

• Step Children

Conflict is a natural part of the parent-child relationship and essential to your children's separation from you into independent beings. The challenge is not that you are going to have conflicts with your children periodically, but how you handle these conflicts, will determine whether you help or hurt your children.

• Strong Willed Children

These tips offer a helpful guide for providing understanding and compassion to children living with grief.

• Child Grief

Do you plan to make family a top priority during the next 12 months? If so, why not consider these two words of advice: Passion and Grace.

• Parenting Goals

Our first home or "base" is our parents for better or for worse. We then grow up and create our own base with our new family. No matter how problematic a parent or loved one may or may not be, when they are gone, they are gone. The loss of parents or loved ones often creates a significant emotional void.

• Dealing with a Parent's Death

Physical activity is one of the simplest and most effective ways to help reduce stress and ensure that a child gets a good night's sleep. It releases both physical and emotional tension and has a positive effect on the neurotransmitters in the brain that affect mood. Unfortunately, the rise in childhood obesity is a telltale sign that many of our children are not getting adequate exercise

• Active Kids

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