Parenting
#Guides / Ways to babyproof your home for your toddler
As a parent, babyproofing your home becomes a top priority when your child becomes a toddler. Here are some ways to babyproof your home if you have a toddler.
Things you need to know about sensitive children
In a world that takes pride in toughness and machoism, sensitivity is often mistaken for passiveness or weakness. In reality, however, this is a rare strength that runs the world, and given a nurturing environment, children with highly sensitive minds often enjoy certain advantages.
How children are affected by their parents' unhappy marriage
Marital conflict can result in constant fighting and can breed a hostile atmosphere.
Tough choices, terrifying consequences
A major scientific breakthrough has ensured that boys born with a particular gene can be identified as having the potential to grow into violent men.
The repercussions of a sheltered childhood
If you’ve led a similarly sheltered life, odds are, there’s probably one or two pretty basic life skills that you may be lacking.
#Parenting / Old school manners children should know
It seems as if saying please and thank you does not even scratch the surface of “old-school” manners children should know and use that would set them ahead of their peers. Parents must constantly practice manners at home, and set a good example for them, as children are great at mimicking actions. However, it is also prudent that parents have age-appropriate expectations of their children because kids are only capable of learning and doing certain things at each stage of life, even if they do amaze you sometimes. Positive reinforcement often works better on little people than threats and rewards do.
Signs of depression in children
Children, at every age, are trying to navigate emotions bigger than themselves and it is not unusual for them to feel down and washed out from time to time. However, when the feeling is very intense and continues for a long time, particularly in a way that impacts a child’s social, family or school life, it may be worth probing into.
How overly involved parents at schools affect students’ wellbeing
The over-involvement of parents or even other guardians in a child's education or overall life is common in our country
Cover Story. / Our lives and the secrets we keep
Living two lives – one at home and one outside.
Ways to babyproof your home for your toddler
As a parent, babyproofing your home becomes a top priority when your child becomes a toddler. Here are some ways to babyproof your home if you have a toddler.
Things you need to know about sensitive children
In a world that takes pride in toughness and machoism, sensitivity is often mistaken for passiveness or weakness. In reality, however, this is a rare strength that runs the world, and given a nurturing environment, children with highly sensitive minds often enjoy certain advantages.
How children are affected by their parents' unhappy marriage
Marital conflict can result in constant fighting and can breed a hostile atmosphere.
Tough choices, terrifying consequences
A major scientific breakthrough has ensured that boys born with a particular gene can be identified as having the potential to grow into violent men.
The repercussions of a sheltered childhood
If you’ve led a similarly sheltered life, odds are, there’s probably one or two pretty basic life skills that you may be lacking.
Old school manners children should know
It seems as if saying please and thank you does not even scratch the surface of “old-school” manners children should know and use that would set them ahead of their peers. Parents must constantly practice manners at home, and set a good example for them, as children are great at mimicking actions. However, it is also prudent that parents have age-appropriate expectations of their children because kids are only capable of learning and doing certain things at each stage of life, even if they do amaze you sometimes. Positive reinforcement often works better on little people than threats and rewards do.
Signs of depression in children
Children, at every age, are trying to navigate emotions bigger than themselves and it is not unusual for them to feel down and washed out from time to time. However, when the feeling is very intense and continues for a long time, particularly in a way that impacts a child’s social, family or school life, it may be worth probing into.
How overly involved parents at schools affect students’ wellbeing
The over-involvement of parents or even other guardians in a child's education or overall life is common in our country
Our lives and the secrets we keep
Living two lives – one at home and one outside.
How to deal with screen time for children
A parenting book found that most successful parents do not worry too much about how much screen time their children get. Instead, they focus on teaching the following habits.
