Parenting

Many parents may have received a note from their children, at least once in their lifetime, saying, “I’m leaving the house and I’m not coming back.” Most children, from the age they can walk and talk until their early teenage years, often leave home. Cases of runaway children are not an uncommon phenomenon.

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It is not uncommon for children to be picky eaters.

However, it is common for parents to get frustrated with kids for being picky eaters. Often this results in punishment, bribery, sweet-talk and other persuasive techniques.

These may be more or less effective in the Continue

If you thought etiquette applied only to adults, think again. Where do adults learn etiquette? Surely, they’re not born with it. The right etiquette has to be taught when the individual is at a very young age. They should grow as well-mannered people rather than bumbling bumpkins.

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It’s true that love knows no boundaries, not even of age. When children experience the rush of feelings that come along with a crush, parents need to understand and help them. You’re right in thinking a child is too young to know about love; but they’re not too young to feel it.

The first crush of a child may be at any age above six or seven years. No matter how silly you find it that she likes the Continue

It is not unusual for a child to lie. According to psychologists, lying can be a part of the natural development process of a child, when he/she begins testing limits of life and the consequences of his actions. Moreover, a small kid, who hears Continue

When your kids come together, do they always fight and shout at each other? Disagreements occur between nearly all siblings. However, sometimes the intensity of conflict is severe enough to attract the attention of parents. Parents are often in a quandary about Continue

Learning Disability in kids

Learning disability is a problem associated with brain and its ability to receive, analyzes, process and store information. The kid’s having learning disability may be of average or above average intelligence. Continue

Summer camps all over the world buzz with activity in the summertime. This is when kids with backpacks and lots of enthusiasm stay at a camp for the summer. It is a time of merry activities and laughter.

While in Continue

Teach Your Child to Stay Healthy

For being a healthy child they should keep themselves neat and clean. Parents have to inculcate this habit in their kids to keep them healthy. A child having the habit of Continue

Reinforce Your Child’s Learning at Home

Children have to learn things from the day they start to speak. They have to attend interviews to get admission even for kinder garden. All these make the kid and parents lives hectic and most of the kids lose interest in learning in this process of Continue

Children are scared of many things. Your child could be scared of birds, animals, dark places, heights or ghosts. Most of these fears are undoubtedly irrational. Parents are often unsure how help their children overcome fear. Continue

For our previous generations, attending to children’s tantrums was not important. In those days, most households survived on limited income and parents did not have the means or the desire to meet Continue

There are very few occasions when parents might regret having children. Summer time is probably one of those rare instances. It’s when kids go crazy with their holidays and constantly make demands. In all the Continue

Are you receiving frequent complaints about your kid’s inattentiveness in class? Are you seeing an increased irritability in your child’s behavior? Does your child appear to be forgetting things regularly and lost in his/her own world? Continue

You spend hours making the most nutritious snack for your kid. But, when you call him to eat; he frowns on seeing the dish prepared for him. Instead, he asks for something radically different- a packet of chips instead of the snack and bangs the table when refused. Continue