All Entries in the "Parenting" Category
Are You Guilty Of Stealing Your Child’s Identity?
You may instantly think to retort with a firm ‘No’ when faced with a question such as this, but consider the fact that you could be doing something that is tantamount to stealing your child’s identity; more particularly their financial identity.
Parents who have not been able to manage their finances and particularly their lines of [...]
Top 3 Parenting Styles For Responsible Parents
Parenting styles have been a topic of conversation for a very long time now. Times have changed and today, parents have become more flexible as compared to those parents during the 1800’s or early 1900’s. This is often the case due to the evolution of general human behavior which does not spare the concept of [...]
Do Dads Undergo Hormone Changes As Well?
Mothers undergo hormonal changes from the time of conception to the time the baby is born and further.
Mood swings, depression or euphoric behavior may all be attributed to hormonal surges and ebbs. But, what about the dads? Do dads undergo hormonal changes as well?
Apparently fathers and particularly expectant fathers do undergo hormonal changes as well.
According [...]
Would You Let Your Child Cycle To School?
Oliver and Gillian Schonrock have been in the news for letting their two children, 8 and 5, cycle to school in Dulwich unaccompanied. This caused Social Services to sit up and take notice, and to trot out a threat against such irresponsible parenting.
And yet one has to ask, is this really irresponsible parenting? The writer [...]
Are You A Hoarder? It May Be Stressful For Your Child
Many parents may be compulsive hoarders and may not even realize it. And yet the untidy and unsightly habit of hoarding may be cause for stress for your teen, who may be embarrassed to invite friends over for this very reason.
Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder and causes people to gather things that have little [...]
Talk To Your Dad – It’s The Secret To Being Happier
In our times of dysfunctional families and estranged parents, it is important to realize the importance of actually talking to one’s father.
Recent research has shown that those kids who talk to their dads more were more likely to be happy than others who rarely spoke to their fathers.
It is a sad reflection on the dynamics [...]
Parenting Children And How It Will Affect Them
Your children are your precious gifts. During their early years, it is important to build a special bonding relationship to help them improve their personality.
Your way of parenting children will affect their social and moral status as they grow old. There are lots of things a parent can do to achieve this kind of development [...]
In Defense of the Sunderland’s
Abby Sunderland being lost out at sea caused a furor, and most of all it called into question the wisdom of her parents (or the lack thereof) in sending a child aged 16 to circumnavigate the globe on her own.
And now Abby herself has come out in defense of her parents, after she was rescued [...]
Abby Sunderland Episode Causes Parental Uproar
We have all heard of Abby Sunderland, the 16 year old who is trying to sail solo around the world, who was missing and feared lost before she was found and contact was reestablished.
There has been much indignation and ire expressed on the TV news, on blogs, and other media about the irresponsibility of parents [...]
Can The Arrival Of A Baby Make Dad Feel Useless?
It is par for the course these days for expectant dads to do the whole antenatal class routine, and reading up about parenthood and being there for the mom when she is giving birth.
But according to Dr Jonathan Ives of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham, this may not be the [...]
