Category: Parenting
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5 Wise Parenting Tips to Prepare Your Child for the Early Stages of School
Preparing your child for their first encounter with other people is delicate because they have always been used to your company, and no one else’s. Hence, choose an institution with early childhood education expertise to train your child’s mental and social preparedness because it will affect their future life and how they will deal with…
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How to Keep Your Teenager Motivated?
For some reason, teenagers are always assumed to be laid back, distant and difficult to comprehend. That’s not entirely true. Your attitude and approach towards your teen have got a lot to do with how they turn out to be. We have all gone through those teenage years but somehow when it comes to…
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Don’t Give up on Your Teen
You can’t always be with your teen and know everything that they the are up to at every second, but as a caring parent, you can be in-tune to what is normal for them so that when something is off, you’ll notice it. As a parent, you know what is normal and what is not…
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Family Therapy: Get to Know the Four Primary Methods
In many ways, our families are responsible for the people we become, therefore, in order for any family to provide a nurturing environment for the younger members and to become a support system for everyone in it, it must function properly first. Unfortunately, due to the effects of multiple internal and external factors, families often…
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How to Talk to Teens About Social Media Safety & Responsibility
My friends and I often talk about how grateful we are that we didn’t have YouTube growing up. Imagine your silliest and most embarrassing moments immortalized on the internet. Phew, we really dodged a bullet. But as we’re wiping our brows, we’re collectively realizing that we have an even more challenging task ahead: Parenting children…
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Discussing Substance Abuse with Your Kids
Exposure to drugs and alcohol and the consequences it brings is one of the biggest problems kids and teenagers face in today’s world. Unfortunately, one wrong decision can lead to a lifetime of substance abuse, poor decision making, and various health problems. It can even cut their lives short. What makes it even more difficult…
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Find the Best Schools for Your Kids
If you want your children to succeed academically, it is vital that you place them in the right schools to learn. With so many options to choose from, it can be pretty confusing to know which will do your child the most good. Though the final decision will be yours, knowing what to look for…
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Guiding Your Teen Through Depression
It is a known fact that depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in our nation. Men and women of all ages experience the pervasive sadness, exhaustion, pain, anxiety, sleeplessness or extreme sleepiness, dragging them down and making it extremely difficult to function in daily life. For those suffering in this way, the…
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3 Fun and Creative Ways to Celebrate Your New Arrival
Image: Pixabay Finding out that you’re expecting is an exciting time for a couple. From the very moment that you hear the news from your doctor, you want to shout it from the rooftops for everyone to hear. As you’re already aware, the first few weeks are critical and spreading the word too soon can…
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6 Baby Care Tricks for Future Mommies
During your first years of life, there was someone who held you and who has been there for you through your worst. She has been there to praise you for your successes and she has always encouraged you. Moms have the hardest job in the world, a full-time job where love is their only reward.…