Parenting & Family Advice Guides

5 Ways Parents Can Get Their Children To Get More Exercise
Was parenting easier forty years ago? As a mom in the new millennium, I dream about the idea of parenting in a world where streets are safe and parents can let their children run freely through the neighborhood...

8 Ways To Focus Your Child On Learning… Starting Right Now!
Great tips on how to ensure your child is ready physically and mentally for the learning day ahead...

A Guide To Choosing The Right Toy For Your Child’s Age
Choosing the right toy for your child’s age is not just a matter of selecting a toy that will engage, entertain and educate them, it is also a matter of safety. If you’ve browsed the aisles of any toy store lately you probably know that selecting the right toy can be a difficult undertaking...

A Primer on Bradley vs. Lamaze Childbirth Methods
The Bradley method of childbirth was developed in the 1940's by Dr. Robert A. Bradley, an American Obstetrician. It is based on the philosophy of 'natural childbirth' (drug free) and was pioneering in the involvement of fathers during the birthing process...

A Quick Guide to Children's Furniture for the Bedroom or Playroom
Whether you are looking for bedroom furniture or family room play furniture you will find many conventional and unusual choices....

Accident Insurance For Children - Have You Thought About It?
Have you thought about providing financial security for your children in case they are seriously injured in an accident of any kind? The possibility of an accident putting your child in a wheelchair for life, is not one that anyone likes to think about. Not thinking about the possibility does not take that chance away though....

Advice On How To Successfully Get Your Children To Bed
Many parents find trying to get their child to bed at night to be one big struggle. The child may play up, whinge and even cry. When in bed, the child may then repeatedly keep getting out of bed and coming downstairs. This article gives advice on how to successfully get your child into bed at night, without all of this fuss....

Am I Hurting My Child By Staying Home?
It's something many stay at home moms fear, that they are hurting their child socially by not putting them in daycare or doing a million activities with them from the time they are born. But it's not something you need to worry too much about, so long as your children do get some social time....

Are You Addicted to Your Children?
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!...

Are You Present With Your Children?
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...

Baby Gates Help to Child Proof Your Home
When it comes to child-proofing your home, one of the first things you will consider is the baby safety gate. Neglecting to add baby gates to your home can mean risking your baby's safety when wandering around the home. It only takes a second of distraction and your child could be in a dangerous situation...

Baby & Toddlers Clothes - The Evolution of Children's Clothing
Children's clothing evolved as with all the things that are now present today. From the beginning, children’s' clothing used color to separate the genders. Especially in the olden days where little boys looked like little girls, the distinction can be made by the color of the clothes...

Boost Your Child's Self-Esteem
Many people have a strong opinion on the importance of self-esteem in children. Some people have a negative opinion and believe too much emphasis is placed on self-esteem today. Other's believe strongly that self-esteem development is crucial in children...

Breastfeeding Your Child: What You Need To Know
Breastfeeding refers to the process by which a mother feeds her infant with milk directly from her breasts. Assuming the mother does not have certain illnesses, breast milk is widely believed to be the most beneficial for feeding young infants...

Child Car Seats: How To Choose The right One
If you have children, or are planning to have children, one of the most important thing you need to think about purchasing is a car seat. There are many child car seats to choose from, and making sure you have the right one is very important...

Child Nutrition: Help Your Child Be Healthy
The food your child eats is important not only now but also for the rest of his or her life. A small child is going to need various types of foods for energy to play, grow, and to build a healthy body. Muscles and bones are forming over the first fifteen years of life, and when eating the right types of foods and including smart nutrition your child is more likely to avoid sickness and to ward off some types of disease...

Childhood Obesity – What can Parents do?
As the government becomes more aware of the problem of childhood obesity, schools in the UK are now planning to weigh and measure all children at the ages of 4-5, when they start primary school and again at 10-11, when they are about to leave for secondary education...

Children Birthday Party Advice
Birthday parties for children are exciting events. To make a thrilling experience for the children, we must work hard. Careful planning is essential...

Common Childhood Illnesses… What To Look For
Children are very susceptible to illnesses, in part because their immune systems are not fully mature. Breastfeeding of course provides some immunity to common illnesses, but nowadays most children are weaned by the time they are 1 year old...

Dance for Children: For Fun and Confidence
When it comes to our children, we want to give them the world. Many little girls and some little boys show an early interest in dance and you should not worry about gender stereotypes at young ages especially. The benefits of dance for children far outweigh any potential stereotyping that may come about as the result...

Developing Leadership Qualities In Your Child
Often I have heard that leaders are born, not made. Do you think this is true? How many times did you read a biography of a great leader, and discovered that as a child, he has been quiet, reserved and rather shy? Are those natural qualities of a leader? Of course not! These people have developed their leadership qualities later in life...

Do You Listen to Your Child?
Communicating with our children can be a difficult task at times. We feel like they're not listening to us; they feel like we're not listening to them. Good listening and communications skills are essential to successful parenting...

Do You Show Your Love To Your Child?
Show-and-Tell in various forms is a popular feature of many preschool classrooms. When you watch children making their presentation you understand the popularity of show-and-tell. Kids love to talk about their interests and passions but they love to share those interests and passions even more...

Do You Want Your Children to Be Like You?
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...

Enticing Children To Read More Books
Kids have the perfect mindset to get lost in the joy of a good book. Books for kids are ultimately the inspiration for healthy imaginative play, long term reading skills, and even the springboard for theoretical conversation at the dinner table...

Exploring Nature with Your Child, In Your Own Backyard
Backyards, they are where individuals of all ages go to relax and have fun. While many people enjoy being in their backyards, they are not the only ones. In fact, when you are in your backyard, you are rarely ever alone...

Finding The Best Children's Educational Toys
Most likely people today are finding out that Leapfrog is one of the best child educational toys for children because of its outstanding learning system. Leapfrog has over a thousand games for children who are between the ages of 3 and up. Leapfrog is a child educational toy that will have your child or children learning in no time...

Getting Your Child To Eat Vegetables
Many parents strive to ensure that their children eat vegetables. Some meet with complete success, others with very little success. Veggies contain many vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients that a body needs to main good health and energy...

Helping Children Learn Through Music
If the thought of your children's development is music to your ears, you may want to share the joy of music with your kids--and it seems the sooner you do it, the better...

Helping Your Child Deal With The Birth Of A New Sibling
If you’re pregnant with your second child, it’s time to be thinking about how to prepare your first child to deal with “not being an only child” anymore. This can be a difficult transition for any child, and most, regardless of age, have some adjustments to make. Here are some suggestions to help your child be prepared...

How Divorce Affects Your Children
When a marriage turns into a complete wreck and nothing can ever fix the problem anymore, divorce is the only best option to take. Millions of people prefer to leave their partners when certain aspects of the relationship are no longer smooth sailing as they were before the marriage...

How to Comfort your Child after a Nightmare
Nightmares and night terrors can be equally frightening for both child and parent, especially when they start happening frequently. Nightmares occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep. They might vary in length, but the child will usually remember what the nightmare was about...

How to Get More Involved In Your Child's Education
A child's education begins at home, but parental involvement doesn't end when that child steps through the school door. Studies show that children not only do better in school when their parents are involved, they also tend to go further in the education system...

How to Get Your Child to Think for Themselves
Do you find that you are continually telling your children what to do? Brush your teeth, put your plate away, make your bed, don’t forget your hat, put on your shoes…sometimes the list feels endless...

How To Save Money With Children
Many people do not realize just how expensive children can be until they have their own. Suddenly the income that was more than enough for two does not cover the bills for three. There are many expenses that come with children. While the expenses are more evident with infants, it takes just as much if not more money to raise children as they get older. Here are some great tips for saving money with your children...

How To Select The Right Shoes For Your Children
It is pretty usual for children to go around in footies or in socks during their first months. At that age, shoes are merely a 'decoration' item because newborns or young babies never walk so they don't need any kind of support for their body and feet...

How Your Child's Sleep Can Be Affected By TV
The average person associates sleep problems with things like stress and anxiety, such that they do not immediately believe some groups can have trouble sleeping. However, it isn't merely the pressures of work, society, and relationships that can take a toll on a person's ability to get good sleep quality and quantity...

Musical Instruments For Your Children
Music is the essence of life and I think that no one is untouched with this beautiful gift given to mankind. Even children also love to play music and enjoy it when they get a chance to do so. For this, you require various expensive musical instruments but what if you make your own music instruments at your home with little efforts?...

Nine Things You Should Know About Yoga for Children
Here are some guidelines and realistic expectations for parents, who are considering Yoga for their children. For your child, Yoga is much more than a kid's fitness class. Just like adults -- kids need time to learn to deal with life's daily pressures, too...

Potty Training Your Child The Easy Way
Have you tried potty training your child and it just isn’t going well? Some children fight every potty training attempt you will make, while other children are interested in potty training. You as a parent will be able to tell when your child is ready to start potty training...

Protect Your Children's Teeth
As a parent you have many responsibilities. You are responsible for providing your children with an education, food, shelter, clothing and making sure that they remain safe. The list of your duties goes on and on. With all that you have to do, you may not be able to pay enough attention to protecting your child's teeth...

Protecting Your Children From Secondhand Smoke
In the United States alone, smoking has been named the single most preventable cause of early deaths. Around four hundred thousand Americans die because of cigarette smoking yearly. And approximately three thousand non-smokers acquire lung cancer and die because of second hand smoke...

Raising Bilingual Children: The First 5 Steps To Success
When I was growing up, the only way to raise a true ‘world denizen’ was at an exorbitantly priced Swiss boarding school. Luckily, such elitism has been thrown out the window, and now parents raise bilingual and multicultural children themselves...

Selling Children's Items On Ebay
Selling for a profit on eBay is easy when you have kids. People are earning hundreds of dollars a month by selling kid related items. Here are some general ideas to help you get started...

Start Your Child's Education Early
Studies have shown that the most important period of a child’s life is their first five years. Children are capable of learning from a very early age, so it is ideal to expose them to a nurturing and educational environment during those years...

Support Your Child's Curiosity and Intelligence
Here are some ways you can encourage your child to work hard and be a curious and active learner: * Praise and celebrate your child's efforts and accomplishments. Focus on how much she wanted to do a good job and how hard she worked...

Ten Ways Fathers Model Healthy Relationships for Their Children
Your children learn how men should behave in relationships by watching you. Even if you do not live with their mother, they are keenly aware of the way you interact with her. Most divorce and domestic violence happens to men and women who grew up without a father modeling healthy relationship behavior...

The Universe Through a Child’s Eyes
There is something about parenthood that gives us a sense of history and a deeply rooted desire to send on into the next generation the great things we have discovered about life. And part of that is the desire to instill in our children the love of science, of learning and particularly the love of nature...

The Benefits Of Saving For Your Child's School Finance
Defining your savings goals is the first thing to do before you invest, especially when that investment will have an impact on your child’s future...

The Common Cold: Children's Leading Source of Discomfort
Our body is always prone to different infections, sickness, and illnesses that may harm our health. It is necessary for each person to take enough vitamins and minerals to increase our body's protection from harmful bacteria and viruses that cause illness...

The Importance Of Teaching Your Children Good Anger Management Skills
In this article I write about a parents role in teaching their child good anger management skills. How many times have you been shopping in for example a supermarket and witnessed an over-aggressive parent shouting at their child? This is exactly what not to do, that parent is giving a very bad example to their child in this example...

The Laid Back Parents Guide To Teaching Your Child To Read
At first I thought of titling this article "The Lazy Parent's Guide" but then I realized that most parents aren't lazy, but they may have a slightly different philosophy about children and learning...

The Process Of Natural Childbirth
Natural childbirth is defined as a birth that attempts to minimize the intervention of modern medicine, including the use of medications and/or surgical procedures...

The Value Of Jigsaw Puzzles For Very Young Children
Jigsaw puzzles have a lot of educational value for children of all ages. This is because to do a jigsaw requires a child to use several different aspects of the thinking process...

Things to Know About Selecting a Child Day Care Providers
Most parents think childcare is a baby-sitting service. This is a misconception, as childcare is a profession as any other. There are so many important things to note about the challenging and rewarding career of being a childcare provider...

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...

Traveling Safely With Children The Basics
Safe traveling with children starts with preparing items to bring along with you. First, you should always consider utilizing products from a child safety store. Also, before you leave, label the inside of your child’s clothing. This information should include his or her name, home address and contact number. Also, prepare necessities for the trip...

What Is Difficult Child Behaviour?
Most of us have strong opinions on how to guide our children's behaviour. Unfortunately, these opinions often focus on stopping the inappropriate behaviour and neglect to give significant emphasis to helping children learn new, more appropriate ways to behave...

Winter Is Perfect For Children's Crafts
Cold weather can be tough on you and your small child when they can’t get outside and play. It can sometimes be difficult to find things for them to do indoors that will keep the interested and occupied for any amount of time. Children's crafts can be a great option!...