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What does your typical day look like? If it follows a familiar pattern, you’re doing it right.
People are largely creatures of habit. Establishing daily rituals lends meaning to life while letting you attend to pesky pragmatic details — like that need to shower. Here are the benefits of having a family routine and tips for establishing a positive one. [Read more…]
Children are not born good or evil, but they don’t know how to behave, either. Their instincts often conflict with the rules. And you need to teach them how to live within the rules and do what is best, years before they can understand the reasons why they need to do this. The solution is behavior management. You want to encourage good behavior and discourage bad behavior. Here are 7 behavior management tips for every parent.
Have Clear Expectations
Set clear expectations for your child. These expectations should be realistic. For example, you can require a toddler to pick up their toys at put them in the toy box at the end of the day but not to clean the kitchen. You can have simple lists and even checklists of what you expect the child to do. These rules can include saying please and thank you, cleaning up messes they make, and taking care of themselves. Have preschoolers learn that the bedtime routine consists of a bath, brushing their teeth, reading the bedtime story and going to bed. If they fight taking the bath or won’t brush their teeth, you might read one book at bedtime instead of two. For older children, use chore charts. Make sure they know what you expect them to do on a daily and weekly basis. [Read more…]
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. Locking a child in the car by mistake. Maybe you left the car running, or you turned the engine off. Whatever the case, you opened the driver’s side door, absent-mindedly engaged the car locks, got out, and shut the door. That’s precisely when the cold chill ran up your backbone.
A recent article states that there are very few more stressful situations than locking a young child like a toddler or a baby inside your vehicle. The stress will be compounded dramatically if it happens during a hot summer’s afternoon as the temperature inside the car can rise at a rapid, very dangerous rate. [Read more…]
Parents-to-divorce are always worried about how their children will take the news about the end of the marriage, how they will handle the process and the outcomes. But the truth is that the long-term effects of divorce on child are to be at the center of attention. While you can spot short-term effects, such as behavioral disorders, increased anxiety, or academic troubles, and solve them without delay. It will be more difficult to predict and prevent the impact of divorce on your children in the long run.
Discover what the latest research claim about the long-term effects of divorce and aim to supply your kids with a steady and healthy future but not only happy childhood.