Decorating a nursery for your new baby can be a fun and exciting experience. It will be the first place for your baby to dream, to experience, and to grow. Here are a few things to keep in mind: Location. Calm surroundings are critical to a newborn's development. Avoid room's that are ...

The word creativity has so many diverse meanings and interpretations. I remember telling an audience of teachers that creating a mess is also creative as long as new things and views are being conjured up. This led to much laughter and discussion about the meaning of creativity (This not ...

I hear the questions again and again: How do I get my child to quit whining do their homework clean their room do the dishes And I hear all kinds of answers for each situation. Here is my proposal, rather than handle each situation as an isolated event, lets look at them in l ...

Today there is a crisis in the child care industry. Parents are looking to the government to solve the problem by not cutting away at programs that will give them help with quality childcare, health care and training for the caregivers in these settings. As an advocate for quality child ...

The cost of a 4-year college education is soaring! Every year tuition, room & board and other related expenses increase 9% to as much as 15% at some schools, and have already climbed to $160,000 and more! Despite this, American families are sending their children to college in record num ...

At a Womens Bar Association lunch one of the attorneys ordered a diet soda and then explained to the rest of us that her children were doing a healthy living program so she stopped buying diet soda to drink at home. She said having this diet soda was a real treat for her. She then conf ...

The initial state of happiness about an own child is often overcome with annoyance after even a short period of time. Children quickly grow an own personality, and it's the most vital task of the parents to help develop it and give it a shape. Otherwise, the little angel can turn into a ...

In the news, we hear and see an increasing number of reports about violence among children. This goes from rude fights on the playground to armed incidents in schools that result in injuries or even casualties. Now asking ourselves where this behaviour is originated, we quickly come to ...

Several similar terms describe the central attribute of a character that decides on the strength of personality and the degree of inner freedom: "self assurance" describes mostly the behaviour. Counterparts are insecure behaviour or shyness. "self confidence" is the mental and emotion ...

Dining in a restaurant with kids can be very enervating and embarrasing. Not only that you have to desperately try and keep your wiggling toddler seated and silent, you also have to manage the disapproving looks from other (non-parent) guests. The root problem here is again boredom. So ...

Boredom, limited space and overflowing energy are a source of nuisance for a child when in a restaurant - how much more in the narrow cage of a car on a hour-long ride. You have barely left your home when the notorious "Are-we-there-already" starts, sometimes replaced by the equally infa ...

Though you can cover even very long distances by car if you have the guts to, as soon as it comes to crossing water, you'll have to stick to a plane. The equation is the same as usual: limited space + long time of inactivity = whiny, annoying children. The big difference towards a car i ...

Teething is what your baby experiences when her first set of teeth begins to appear. Some babies will go through this event without a problem. However, other babies will experience discomfort. To tell when your baby is about to enter this phase of growth, this article describes the te ...

Do you have a consistent problem with your child lying to you, even though he or she is normally a good child Sometimes the lies are even about things that dont really matter or your child continues to lie in the face of overwhelming proof to the contrary It is my firm belief that we wi ...

Peaceful Parenting ideas are very different from other kinds of parenting practices that you have learned or read about. Certainly it is harder to practice Peaceful Parenting than to simply threaten or bribe your child into following your directions or making what you consider to be the ...

Most of the questions that I get asked these days concern Ed Jr. Hes seventy four years of age now, and most of yall know that he had major heart surgery several years ago. Most of yall also know that hes prominently featured in my first two books. His exploits seem to have been apprecia ...

Its a pretty well established fact that our genetics combined with the influences of our family and environment provide the foundation for how we think and act in our adult years. I call it programming. Not necessarily in a bad sense it frequently works to our advantage too. Its just ...

Women have been feeding their children this way from the beginning, and it is of course natures intended food, therefore the best nourishment for your child. The decision to breast-feed is entirely up to you and each woman should make up her own mind, it is an individual choice. There a ...

Weeks 1 to 3 are the first weeks of pregnancy. Week 1 begins on the first day of your last menstrual period. You will have no pregnancy symptoms yet, its too early right now. By week 4 nearly all of the organs and structure of the fetus have formed, you will start to feel the first pregn ...

Remember how miserable you felt when you last had a cold Can you imagine what your baby must feel when he experiences a cold for the first time Viruses are responsible for causing colds. Infected people spread the viruses when they sneeze or cough nearby healthy people. The virus get ...