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A New Step-parents Guide To Love Someone Else’s Child Like Your Own
It is never easy to raise another’s child! Indeed, it can be particularly challenging to try and love someone else's child like your own. The new step-parent journey can be a potential minefield. In addition to personal difficulties, society's perception of...
10 Essential Life Lessons To Teach Your Child
Being a parent is a complicated thing. You not only have to take responsibility for your child, but also make sure that they are learning essential life lessons as they grow. As a parent, you want the best things for them, and want them to become someone they will be...
Teen Suicide Is A Problem Worldwide But Especially In India
This is a guest post from Dr. Swati Lodha, author of the book ‘Don’t Raise Your Children, Raise Yourself’ Teen Suicide Is a Real Problem in India Teen suicide is higher globally but India tops the world in teen suicides. Every 90 minutes, a teen tries to...
Teenage Depression – 8 Ways Parents Can Help
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the world. In fact, teenage depression is on the rise, especially with the global pandemic that is Covid-19. It is vital that we look at ways to prevent teenage depression. Although many factors may be...
Prepare Your Kids For Moving House With Our Top 5 Tips
Moving is stressful and overwhelming for everybody, but especially children. That’s why it’s important to prepare your kids for moving house. Children typically have a fear of the unknown which increases the stress of the whole process. In fact, Plano movers state...
Yelling At Your Kids Isn’t Helping You Or Them
Stop Yelling At Your Children To Get Your Message Across Yelling at your kids is hard to resist when they disregard your ten trillionth request to behave appropriately. Now, we are not talking about the occasional raised voice here. We are looking at the dangers of...
Positive Discipline To Help Dads With Parenting
Travis from Daddy's Hangout shares a great post to help dad's focus on positive discipline instead of negative discipline. It's true that there is still the stereotype of Dad being the disciplinarian in the home. I'm sure we have either all said it, or heard it when...
How to Help a Stuttering Child at Home
Does your child stutter? Is there anything you can do to help a stuttering child at home? As a parent, it’s natural to be concerned when you first notice your child having difficulty with speech. It’s not uncommon for children to have an episode of stuttering...
Teach Kids About The Real Meaning Of Christmas
Some Lessons To Teach Kids About Christmas It’s important to teach kids about the real meaning of Christmas - especially this year. With all that is happening in the world and a lack of connection, here are some lessons to teach kids about Christmas. It’s my...
Principles of Good Parenting
The principles of good parenting are defined by our values. These depend on how we were brought up and what we’ve been exposed to throughout life. Therefore, people will raise their kids differently because of the diverse environments they were brought up in....
Why a Winter Staycation is the Safest Way to Celebrate Christmas During Coronavirus
Winter Staycations For Christmas Celebrations With Covid-19 Before the coronavirus pandemic changed our lives forever, the arrival of autumn was when we started planning our Christmas holidays. But with borders closed and travel limited it is best to look at winter...
A Guide To More Effective Parenting
Why Strive To Practice Effective Parenting Everyone wants to be the best version of themselves for their children. This means using effective parenting skills. We strive to be our best but most parents will have conflicting parenting advice. There are many different...