All Entries in the "Family Issues" Category

Tips To Help Parents Deal With Fighting Kids

Children of all ages will have disagreements that can quickly escalate into a fighting kids situation.
No matter how many toys there are, they always seem to want the same one and strong-willed children will try to control games and activities.
Here are some useful strategies that can help fighting kids learn [...]

How To Avoid Sibling Rivalry?

Whatever you do as a parent there is no guarantee that your children will get on together.
Just because people are related that does not mean that they will like each other.
However, you should avoid encouraging sibling rivalry and treat all your children as individuals.
Never ever hold up the achievement of one to [...]

How To Handle Jealousy Between Siblings?

I am sure we have all experienced, at one time or another, the feeling of jealousy that rages at times between siblings, either our own, or our children’s. [Sibling rivalry]
If it is between your children, for instance, I am sure you must have tried to talk him out of it, but [...]

How To Resolve Conflicts Between Siblings?

Are you worried about sibling conflicts? Siblings can be either best friends or worst enemies according to their temperaments, within no time.
It is quite common for you to face the consequences of sibling conflicts at any stage.
Here are a few tips that can help you to resolve conflicts between siblings:

Initially, if [...]

Traditional Family Produces More “Well Rounded” Children

A new British scientific report named “A Good Childhood” states that children accomplish most and develop best when they are part of a family with parents who have a clear and well defined long-term commitment.
The report prepared for the charitable group Children’s Society is the result of a two-year study.
One of its [...]

Children Distressed By Family Fighting Have Higher Stress Hormones

Children who become very upset when their parents fight are more likely to develop psychological problems.
But little is known about what happens beyond these behavioral reactions in terms of children’s biological responses.
A new study has found that children who are very distressed when their parents fight also have higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.
The [...]

Exposure To Family Violence Especially Harmful To Previously Abused Children

Millions of American children are exposed to violence in their homes each year, putting them at risk for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems.
According to a new study, children who are maltreated tend to have a lot of re-exposure to family violence, and this re-exposure often leads to increased psychological problems.
Researchers at the University [...]

How Can You Stop Your Kids Fighting With Each Other?

Kids’ fighting is a common thing. Did you see your children arguing all the time? Did you experience the change in the environment at home with their fight? Of course every family with kids faces this type of problem.
Don’t worry that you are the only parents who have such kids. You are not [...]

Bad Childhood Experiences Tied To Early Drinking

Children who deal with divorce, abuse or certain other hardships may be more likely than their peers to start drinking at a young age, a U.S. study suggests.
The study, of nearly 3,600 Americans ages 18 to 39, found that those who’d gone through certain negative experiences as a child were more likely to have started [...]

How Kids Fare In Nontraditional Families?

Children in nontraditional two-parent families — such as step families or when the biological mother is living with a boyfriend — get roughly the same amount of parental involvement as children living with both biological parents in a so-called traditional family, according to research presented at a recent meeting of the American Sociological Association.
This finding [...]