By: Veronica Fisher We’ve been hearing one parenting tip to another. Each and every parenting tip may focus on one aspect of parenthood. A parenting tip may be about raising a toddler, a teen, a gifted child or a difficult child. There is however one other kind of child that should have parents that know [...]
By: VAmberlee Whether by choice or by chance there are millions of single parents in America who are struggling to make it through every day. Not only are they struggling financially, but emotionally too. For many of them, making it through each day without having a nervous breakdown is a miracle.
As every parent knows, raising [...]
By: Alvaro Castillo Lawmakers hope a new bill being enacted this year will reduce California’s gang violence. Here are the Facts First:
• The Parental Accountability Act allows courts to order parents of young gang members to attend parenting classes.
• Courses will teach parents how to identify gang and drug activity in their kids.
• They will also [...]
By: submit111@gmail.com Raising toddlers can be as difficult as raising teens. In these formative years, toddlers can be real tyrants. Oftentimes, this is where first conflict arises between kids and parents even before the stage of adolescence. Any toddler’s parent would do well with a nice parenting tip at this point.
Among other issues, eating habits [...]
By: Will Hanke Research has repeatedly shown that children succeed academically, socially and emotionally and become more well-rounded and balanced individuals if their parents are involved in their education and school activities. Getting involved also sends the message to children that parents are genuinely interested in their education, and that going to school is a [...]
By: David Branco Hester Prynne, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, challenged continuously on a daily basis about whether her parental rights revoked and her illegitimate child fostered. Absent of a husband figure and, in the eye of the public, holding a derogatory view, she was seen as not only unable to care [...]
By: Lindsay Wagner It’s inevitable. We grow up and our parents grow older. It’s the way life works. As we grow up, we make important life decisions. Leaving your home country behind is not an easy transition to make.
It’s not easy on many levels. However, when it involves your parents, you are faced with a [...]
By: Iprwire Staff Writer We have entered the technological age. Parents may find that advances in technology make so many jobs easier. We now have vacuums that operate on their own or GPS systems that ensure one does not get lost. The latest devices in technology improve our lives in a specific way. The one [...]
By: Barbara Beccari The New Year is a time for forward planning. It is a wonderful opportunity annually to take stock of where your children are in their development and to think of what you, as a parent may need, to keep up with change as your child grows and matures. What changes have you [...]
By: Elena Neitlich Recently I ran across a parenting blog in which the writer was reviewing an educational product. She immediately lost credibility with me when in her first paragraph, she wrote that the product made her feel like vomiting, and then used some form of sexual innuendo to refer to the innocuous item.I was [...]