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  • Are You Addicted to Your Children?  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Is it possible to be using our children addictively?

    Anything that we use to get love, avoid pain, and fill up inner emptiness can become an addiction – even our children! If your children are your whole life – if you don’t have a strong spiritual connection with a personal source of love and guidance, as well as other relationships and interests that you are passionate about, you might be using your children to fill an empty place within you.
  • Authoritarian Parenting, Permissive Parenting, or Loving Parenting  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Angie was brought up by rigid, authoritarian parents who kept her on a tight leash. They rarely considered her feelings about anything, showing a complete lack of empathy and compassion for her feelings and desires. If she came home five minutes late from school or from an activity, she was punished. Yelling and hitting were their favorite forms of punishment.
  • Caretaking Parents, Entitled Kids  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Demanding children – children who have entitlement issues – seem to be common these days. Like the obnoxious child, Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, who was constantly demanding that her father get her whatever she wanted (“I want an Umpa Lumpa! Get it for me NOW!”), we hear many children today uttering the fairly constant refrain, “I want ….! Give it to me! Get it for me, now!”
  • Empty Nest Syndrome  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Paula’s last child had just gone off to college and Paula was struggling with a deep inner emptiness. While she knew this day was coming, she was not really prepared for the intense hollowness that welled up within. After all, she had a life of her own. Her work as an occupational therapist, which she had gone back to after all her three children were in school, was fulfilling to her.
  • The Challenges of Single Parenting  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Having worked with parents for the last 35 years and written books on parenting and relationships, I’ve discovered that one of the greatest challenges for us as parents is to be loving role-models for our children, showing our children through our behavior how to take personal responsibility for their own feelings and needs. Our children need to learn from our role-modeling how to nurture themselves within and how to create a sense of safety in the world.
  • The Courage to Be a Loving Parent  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Most of us really don’t like it when someone is angry at us. We don’t like it when people go into resistance to helping us when we need help, instead of caring about us. We don’t like it when people withdraw from us, disconnecting from us and shutting us out.
  • Why first borns fuss, seconds are resilient and youngests like to laugh  By : Michael Grose
    Why are my children so different? The answer to this conundrum lies in children's birth order. Each position in a family leaves its own stamp on children, which stays for life.

    Understand children's birth order personalities and you will have the key to raising them effectively. Its easy once you know the rules of birth order.
  • Do You Want Your Children to Be Like You?  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    There is an old saying regarding children: “Do as I say, not as I do.” Whoever coined this phrase didn’t know much about children. Children often do not “do as we say.” We are the role models regarding how our children learn to treat themselves and others. We are the role models regarding whether or not our children learn to take personal responsibility for themselves – physically, emotionally, financially, relationally, spiritually, and organizationally.
  • The keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn't tell you  By : Michael Grose
    Television programs like Super Nanny and Nanny 911 have captured public interest lately. These programs offer much in terms of helping parents manage their children's behaviour but there are many aspects of parenting that you need to consider if you watch these programs. Following are the keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn't tell you.
  • Meet the Twixters!  By : Michael Grose
    If you think of parenting as a childhood to the end of school experience think again. There is a new group on the radar who need special parenting - those young people in the 18-24 year age group. They are not settling down nor are they financially independent, so it is parents whom they turn to for emotional and financial support.
  • The secrets to improving kids' behaviour  By : Michael Grose
    Effective parents have a range of strategies to improve their children's behaviour, whether it be eradicating annoying behaviours or dealing with strong-willed kids. This article shows you the best question to ask yourself when children misbehave and gives rock-solid principles guaranteed to help you improve your children's less than perfect behaviours.
  • Promote independence with pocket-money  By : Michael Grose
    Effective parents make themselves redundant. That is, they look for ways that they can give responsibility to their children. The use of pocket-money is a fantastic way of promoting real independence and a sense of responsibility in children and teenagers.
  • Toddler Skills for Personal Responsibility  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    There are three skills that are very important for our little ones to learn early in their lives.

    1) Children need to be able to fall asleep on their own. Infants and toddlers who are always rocked to sleep, or breastfed or bottle fed to sleep, learn to depend upon others for falling asleep and do not develop their own falling asleep mechanism.
  • Are You Present With Your Children?  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    How often are you fully and completely present when you are with your children? One of the greatest gifts we can give to our children is to be fully present with them. This can often be a big challenge.
  • 15 New Year's resolutions for parents  By : Michael Grose
    Okay so you have made your usual New Year's resolutions but have you considered some ways you can improve your parenting and family-life over the next twelve months. We should as parenting is the most important job that we will ever do. Following are 15 resolutions that every parent can use!
  • How Often Does Child Sexual Abuse Get Reported?  By : Judy H. Wright
    Summary:
    How often does child sexual abuse get reported?

    Not nearly as often as it should. Most child abuse victims never report the crime or get help in coming to grips with this life-changing trauma. They move into adulthood with a broken heart and low self esteem. Much misbehavior and acting out can be traced to an incident which occurred which left the child feeling confused, betrayed and angry.
  • The Challenge of Families  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Angie grew up in a family where she was the caretaker. The oldest of four, Angie was the only member of her family capable of deep caring, empathy and compassion. As a result, she was always attempting to protect her brother and sisters from her father’s physical and emotional abuse.
  • Are You Letting Your Children Manipulate You?  By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
    Rachael is the young mother of Nathan, who just turned two. Rachael is a stay-at-home mother who works part-time at home and has the help of a housekeeper five days a week. Rachael consulted with me because of her problems with Nathan.
  • Give Your Child Life Skills for a Lifetime  By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
    Many parents struggle with solutions to put their child on the fast track to success, and one such solution is not usually far from home.
  • Guilty of Not Following Her Heart  By : Sean North
    Karen, a single never-married thirty-year old attorney has a four-year old daughter, whom she just picked up from her parents’ home after another all-day affair in court.

    Like every Thursday, Karen took her daughter, Anna, to McDonald’s for dinner, which was a very special mother-daughter bonding time. Karen ordered a salad for her and a kid’s meal for Anna. To Anna’s delight, the kid’s meal came with some crayons. While they were eating, Anna turned over the paper trayliner and began to draw a circle with some numbers just inside the perimeter of the circle. Instead of staring out the window like she usually did, Karen looked at what Anna was drawing.
  • How to Teach Anger Management to Your Child  By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
    Most of us recognize the continuing escalation of violence around us, due to intolerance, and many of us blame it on somebody else. Parents teach their children, all the time, and when one of us displays “road rage,” while our child is in the car, we teach a brand new skill set.
  • Baby Names - Book Review Roundup  By : Ian Byrd
    Best Baby Name Book In The Whole World

    This book lists over 13,00 names and offers up meanings and lists. However, these are some basic baby name book requirements and certainly aren't enough to earn a "Best" title. Unfortunately, this is where the book falls. Not quite great, but not necessarily bad. It doesn't have a huge number of names, it doesn't offer oodles of extras, and some of its meanings are even a bit questionable. There are better books out there.

    The Baby...
  • Mommy & Baby: Questioning Your Milk Supply  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Regardless of which feeding philosophy you follow, you cannot add to what nature has left out. The anxiety created by the fear of failure (and in some cases, the fear of judgment from others) is a contributor in its own right to milk deficiency.

    In most cultures, up to 5% of women during peacetime and 10% during wartime are not able to produce adequate milk for their infants. Some mothers experience sufficiency that wanes to insufficiency by the third month. This can take ...
  • Special Occasion Baby Wear  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Finding special suits for baptisms, christenings, and other ceremonies

    Religious ceremonies, celebrations, and occasions are a big part of a newborn baby’s life in many families. Naming ceremonies, christenings, baptisms, and dedications ceremonies carry a degree of importance in the lives of followers of many different religions and are generally considered to be special occasions of some importance. When planning one of these events there are many details that the parent...
  • Special Baby Clothes For Those Special Days  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Baby clothes are a necessity more than anything else, but there are a couple of special occasions that make the baby the center of attention. It is moments like this that the mother's keen sense of fashion gets to shine. Here, the fact that the baby will undoubtedly grow out of the outfit quickly is of little to no concern, and style is of the utmost importance. In most cases, so is tradition.

    Perhaps the most obvious of these occasions is baby's homecoming. Almost any mot...
  • Retro Baby Clothing  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    If it was cool when you were a kid, it’s cool for your kids!

    Baby clothing is quite a bit different today than it was when you were an infant. From the designer styles of Baby Dior and Baby Phat to the bizarre offerings of the alternative baby clothing market, there’s now something for every parent to adorn her children with in an effort to transfer a bit of her own personality onto her offspring. One of the latest trends in baby fashions is the “retro” look in baby wear.
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  • Sugar And Spice - Dressing Up Little Girls  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    I admit it - I'm a total sucker for sugar and spice baby girl clothing. Give me lace and roses, hand-crocheted pinafores, add hand-smocked bodices and I'm in heaven. I've raised two little girls and had a hand in half a dozen nieces, and I'm here to warn you, ladies. If you love dressing up your little girl in ribbons and lace, indulge yourself as much as you can when she's a baby - because it won't be long before she's choosing her own clothes. And honestly, the frilly style...
  • Mommy & Baby: Styles Of Parenting  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    As a parent, you have the opportunity to set the tone in your home based on the style of parenting you choose. You can choose child-centered parenting or family-centered parenting—the differences will be discussed here.

     Child-centered Parenting
    o Intensely pursue the child’s happiness, taking great strains to avoid discomfort or emotional stress for the child.
    o The child receives what she wants when she wants it: no delay, no waiting.

    These concepts might no...
  • The Basics Of Baby Laundry  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Ah, the sweet smell of a clean baby! You may be tempted to enhance that clean, fresh smell by running baby diapers and onesies through a final rinse with fabric softener - but don't! The perfumes in fabric softener can irritate a baby's sensitive skin, or spark allergies that cause uncomfortable rashes. With all those adorable babies and teddy bears on fabric softener packages, who would have guessed?

    Here's another handful of tips for taking care of baby's clothes during ...
  • Mommy & Baby: Teething & Weaning  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    These are two topics that strike fear in the hearts of all parents: what will happen when my baby starts teething? How will he respond when it’s time to wean him (from the breast)?

    Teething

    Teething is not a disease, but a condition of growth. It shouldn’t be dreaded, but simply seen as an accomplishment of a healthy, growing child. Most babies begin teething between 6-8 months of age, but as in all children, it may vary wildly. Some babies are known to teethe as early ...

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