Wondering if your parenting is on the right track? While not all parenting strategies will work for all parents, there are definitely some things that all parents should think twice about before letting their children do. Think twice before letting your child: Break the rules. Do you let your 12-year-old order off the kid’s menu […]
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A New Year brings an almost involuntary reaction to set some New Year resolutions and goals. A New Year comes with the idea of a fresh start and new beginnings. Chance to try something new, try something you were not able to achieve in the past year. While there are a lot of the more
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Minor injuries are common in childhood – they are a normal part of children growing up, testing out new abilities and exploring the world. However, every hour, four children under the age of five are admitted to hospital with more serious accidental injuries.  In 2010, 83 under-fives died following accidents. The real safety risks Child
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Grandmothers blame “liberal parenting” as the reason for the rude and lazy children being raised today. Survey shows children ignore common courtesies Decline of family meal causes bad table manners Scrapping strict school rules also blamed A decline in traditions like sitting down to eat dinner together and using common courtesies such as ‘excuse me’
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While no one loves a child quite as a parent does, most parents hope that their nanny will care for their child. Even when feelings of jealousy rear their ugly heads, most parents hope that the relationship between their child and his caregiver is a close one. If you are not quite sure about the
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By mia bolaris-forget Even those of us who don’t have kids shake our heads at the parenting techniques of others and have our own opinions about how we would handle the same situation and discipline our children. In fact, we all have a particular parenting style (well before we actually become parents) and it’s based
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Culled from Surf-In-The-Spirit Discipline your children only when you lose your temper. Let them get away with anything until you’re fed up; then, in a spirit of hostility and anger, let ’em have it! Blow your top, holler, get wild, clobber them and really make a brawl out of it. The children will get a
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Andy Braner, wrote an article on HuffingtonPost and the key things he raised are how parents today are raising children who are becoming adults who do not know how to fail. This issue is not only
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Have you decided that working from home is a better proposition than travelling to work everyday? If yes, then this is a good decision. You can spend time with your children and earn from home. But, working from home is not really very easy as you will have a difficult time keeping your work
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He became a drug addict at nine and at 16, a cult leader. Now 19, Karo Ovwonuri, is already a father. Narrating his experience as a street kid and drug addict to MOTUNRAYO ABODERIN, Ovwonuri advised parents not to choose their jobs over their children Nobody, including his parents and teachers could ever in
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