Handling the kids is one of the biggest tasks for parents. In that, if your kid is stubborn, then it is the most challenging task. They will definitely do the thing if they decided to do regardless of your threatening them. For example, a kid locks himself in a room where he needs to [...]

Rigid, controlling parenting may be linked to increased sexual activity in older teens, U.S. researchers suggest. However, lead author Rebekah Levine Coley of Boston College said the findings were only “suggestive … not definitive” and did not reveal which parenting techniques work the best. Coley noted that more than two out of every three U.S. teens has [...]

Is your child having learning disability? Are you exasperated with your kids’ learning disability? Children with learning disability face problems in processing sensory information with which their routine activities at school and work interferes. Learning disability (LD) is a neurological condition that affects the ability of the brain to perform specific tasks [...]

For teens, summer months bring high-school graduation parties with friends and extended curfews allowing for later nights. This time of year can also mean that teens have more free time and could face added pressure to drink alcohol. It’s important for parents to exercise their positive parenting influence and help their teens make responsible decisions. In fact, when [...]

Generally, children flourish in a predictable environment where daily routines such as departures, arrival, mealtimes, feeding, toileting, diapering, and sleeping are dealt by caregivers only. These daily routines make the children learn about others and about themselves that give them a sense of sensitivity, caring and warmth feeling from the caregivers and [...]

Even among low-income families, mothers with greater social and economic resources were more supportive in parenting their children than those with fewer resources, which in turn influenced the children’s cognitive performance. That’s the main finding of a new study that considers how economic factors and parenting quality jointly influence children’s development. The researchers examined 2,089 low-income mothers [...]

Emotion in life starts right from a very young age. All kids undergo emotions once in a while. Moreover, kids are similar to the adults in feeling all types of emotions–happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and many other feelings. However, children cannot always understand what is happening with them and may not know properly [...]

Sex is one of the most difficult topics a parent can bring up with an adolescent, but a new study finds that parents who are taught specific communication skills can more readily tackle these conversations and sustain them over time. The study evaluated a parenting program called Talking Parents, Healthy Teens. The worksite-based program teaches parents how [...]

Being an only child sometimes proves to be advantageous and sometimes disadvantageous. Of course, still there is no clear conclusion for this debate. Some people feel that having no brother or sister to share or play anything is a drawback for that child. On the other hand, some people feel that it is [...]

According to the new study, Infants cared for by caregivers other than their parents tend to gain more weight than children cared for by their parents. The researchers found that children receiving regular care[child care centers] from people other than their parents are also less likely to be breast-fed and more likely to be introduced to [...]