Letting a child older than 30 months soil and wet herself several times a day is an insult to the child’s intelligence. Actually, it is easier to train a child at 20 months than it is to wait much past the child’s second birthday. Ask yourself: Is it easier to house-train a 6-month-old puppy or a 1-year-old [...]

Are you pressed for time? Are you somebody who wakes up in the morning and has to rush immediately? You have the house to be cleaned, the kids to be dropped off at school, you have to get ready for work, and you still have not even finished making breakfast…! Is it [...]

Having trouble getting your kids to eat? It’s common for kids to be picky and, as long as they meet nutritional guidelines within a week, there’s no need to worry about when they eat and what. The Mayo Clinic suggests the following: Respect your children’s hunger, or lack thereof. If they’re not hungry, don’t force them [...]

As much as they try to avoid them, there are sometimes unpreventable circumstances which enforce long distances between parents and their children. The reassuring news is that though the distance keeps parents from attending to their children’s daily needs, it doesn’t mean the end of a loving parent-child relationship. However long the distance, [...]

While parents often dream and fantasize about the personality, talent and characteristics of their children, they often build wonderful expectations for their children which is completely at odds with their natural traits. This is most prevalent in children who have an introverted nature. Because society tends to cater to the majority, who are [...]

Parents who smoke cigarettes around their kids in cars and homes beware – second-hand smoke may trigger symptoms of nicotine dependence in children. “Increased exposure to second-hand smoke, both in cars and homes, was associated with an increased likelihood of children reporting nicotine dependence symptoms, even though these children had never smoked,” says Dr. Jennifer O’Loughlin, [...]

Because the formative, pre-school years - three and four years - are when feelings of self, God and others begin to formulate, they need to be treated with the utmost care. An experimental age, children of pre-school years often want to feel (taste, smell, touch and hear) things for themselves and begin [...]

Many young children stutter, but they often outgrow it by about age 5. If it lasts longer, there is no known cure for stuttering. But you can help your child overcome this difficulty in speaking. Here are some suggestions: Don’t push your child to speak correctly all the time. Just encourage the child to talk, and allow [...]

Moving from parenting a child to parenting a teenager can sometimes be a pretty scary adaptation, it often seems like the child has grown up suddenly overnight into a completely peculiar and hard-to-get-along-with entity. Any parent will tell you that parenting teen girls today is an increasingly tough challenge and requires much [...]

Making friends is one of the most important social skills your child will learn. Attempting to make friends, your little one will communicate with others by telling stories and jokes and exchanging secrets. However, your child may choose friends who you might feel are bad influences. Parents can find themselves telling their child not to play with these [...]