All Entries in the "Parenting Support" Category
Some Books To Help With The Birds And Bees Chat
If you are like a lot of parents that view an impending chat with your child about the birds and bees with trepidation, here are some books that may help smooth the experience for you:
Amazing You – Getting Smart about your Private Parts is meant for young children to explain how boys and girls are [...]
3 Great Reads Dads May Like for Father’s Day
It doesn’t always have to be tools and ties for Father’s day, for a change get dad some reading material that is more relevant to the concept of modern fatherhood and its constantly changing connotations.
Here are some suggestions:
1. The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me by Bruce [...]
Father’s Day – For the first Time!
If you are a first time father with a new born baby, then you are looking enjoying your first ever father’s day which is coming up this Sunday, June 20th (it is celebrated each year on the third Sunday of June).
Legend has it that the origin of Father’s Day dates back a 100 years, [...]
A Word about Dads – Ahead of Father’s Day
Traditionally Father’s day, celebrated the third Sunday of June, is cause for rather less celebration than Mother’s day, and this is a rather unfair situation when you think about it. Fathers are good parents too and should be made to feel special too, come Father’s Day!
The presence of a father in a family is known [...]
Top 5 Benefits Of Attending Parenting Classes
Are you new parents? Do you find it difficult to discipline your child? Are you looking for effective ways to make your child a better person? If yes, then you should consider attending parenting classes to hone your parenting skills.
Parents are always burdened with their responsibilities at home, Aside from keeping a regular job; they [...]
What The New Health Care Law Will Mean For Parents Of New Borns
There have already been far-reaching consequences of the new health care reforms including an area that required considerable improvement and rectification.
Health insurers refusing to pay for child birth or charging higher premiums for this by treating pregnancy as a preexisting condition may soon be a thing of the past.
The health care reforms for new mothers [...]
Parenting Program Could Lower Crime Rates
Professor Matt Sanders, a clinical psychologist from Australia who devised the Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) is of the view that intervention during childhood can help to prevent a lot of societies’ problems over generations.
In a recently launched initiative by health board and council in Glasgow, Scotland, the program aims to create a positive environment [...]
Parent Education – Your Key To Responsible Parenthood
Parent education is a course that teaches and improves parenting skills. Such course is general but with special attention to infants, toddlers and teenagers. It also provides intensive training to new parents, pregnant women and even those who plan to adopt.
Being a parent is a gift. But take note also that being a parent is [...]
An Argument Against Hyper-Parenting
Here is a review about a new book that puts forth a powerful argument against “bubble wrapping children who are consequently missing out on childhood.”
50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do), pivots on the premise of less is more when talking about parenting and trying to insulate children against all manners of injury, [...]
Parenting Programmes Lower Child Abuse Rates
A study carried out by the University of Queensland, Australia stressed that all families that were integrated with an efficient parenting programme would benefit from a lower risk of child abuse.
This new Positive Parenting Programme named Triple P considerably decreased the cases of child-abuse as well as children placed in foster [...]
