Your ultimate goal is for your children to be better off than you are. If you dont teach them about how to manage money they could easily become worse off in their adult years. Dont burden them with ignorance.
Ten Ways Fathers Model Healthy Relationships for Their Children
Children learn by watching their parents. That means you have to model how to be men for your kids.
The keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn’t tell you
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.
Three Keys To Teaching Your Child The Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is a key part of your child’s education especially when it comes to learning to read and write. It is important that children learn not only to recite the letters in order, but also to recognize letters out of sequence. In addition, after mastering basic recognition, children will need to learn the sounds each letter represents and how to write it.
While many parents recognize how important learning the alphabet is to their child they are not always s…
Tips to Help Your Kids Celebrate Reading
It’s been proven that children who read achieve. They boast higher test scores and recognize letters and numbers more often than their peers who read less often. But getting children to crack open a book sometimes can be the tricky part for parents and teachers.
Understanding How The Internet Affects Children
Between surfing the Internet, visiting chat rooms and sending text messages, children spend a great deal of time in cyberspace–and it’s up to parents to make sure their kids spend that time safely.
What Parents Need to Know About Child Safety and Identification
Parents commonly believe, that by recording their childrens fingerprints and DNA information, they have taken all the steps necessary in order to protect as well as provide identification for their children.
Common sense dictates that the only time a childs fingerprints or DNA information would ever become necessary would be in the worst-case scenario, after the unthinkable has happened.
When Your Child Is Old Enough To Be Sleeping Through The Night
All The Sleeping Mistakes Ive Made with My Children
I have three children, so Ive made pretty much every mistake known to Mommies, except the fatal ones, as luckily, all three of mine are alive and well. But the biggest mistakes Ive made have been in my daughters sleeping, or lack thereof, habits. So, let me tell you my story, and hopefully you wont be destined to make the same mistakes I have.
First, when she was very tiny, I let her fall asleep in bed with my hu…
Why You Should Read To Your Child
As a parent you have many important priorities when it comes to your child. You need to keep your child safe, healthy, and loved. In today’s hectic world, we often spend so much time engaged on those priorities we forget another important area — mental stimulation. As parents we need to engage our children’s minds as well as their bodies in order for them to grow and learn. One of the best ways to achieve this goal is through reading.
There are a number of reasons why you…
Youth Sports Schedules: Alerts Keep Parents in the Know
When sports and recreation directors make last-minute schedule changes, such as canceling a game due to inclement weather or having to change practice times, they may have to inform several people at the same time. But with limited time to spread the word to players, parents, coaches and officials, some people may miss out.
Survey About Injury Risks to Children
A national survey of 1,000 parents found that many don’t know key facts regarding potential safety hazards for children.
Teach Your Child Phonemic Awareness
In recent years, the field of reading education has changed dramatically and many reading instructors have divided it between phonic instruction and whole language. Various reading programs that fall into one of the two camps have spent millions advertising the relative merits of both.
The simple truth of the matter is that the best reading instruction takes place using a combination of both strategies. And increasingly reading research has demonstrated that phonemic aware…