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Your Family RSS FeedsTop Websites - Directory for internet websites. Find everything from here. Submit your site for free. ...Feed Source: Moms Vs The Professionals - Debates About Play and Learning - Parents tend to think that play with an educational focus better prepares kids for school. However, over preparation or enrichment activities at very young ages can stunt development. Unstructured play leads to problem solving, literacy, creativity and social skills.... How to Multiply Quality Family Time - Raising a family is a fun but often trying experience. Children are first of all a gift from God. You as the mother and father gain huge personal satisfaction from just one small smile your child gives you and of course that happens thousands of times throughout life.... 10 Tips For Parents of (Pre) Teen Entrepreneurs - For teen entrepreneurs, it's not just homework or hormones and friends or fashion. For these exceptional young people, it's all of that - plus finding funding, building business and securing their futures at an early age. And it's important that their parents understand and appreciate their struggles and offer them support every step of the way.... Parents Must Push Their Kids - Think your parents are too hard on you? See why they must push you!... How to Discipline Children Without Spanking Them - Are you a parent or educator who believes the only effective way to straighten your kids out is to spank them? Do you realize that some kids who receive corporal punishment or physical abuse grow up to become abusers? Would you like to learn how to make your kids behave without inflicting physical pain and making them fear you or call the police? You are about to learn how to discipline your kids without spanking them.... Provide a Great Parental Influence - Have a big impact on your kids' lives! Learn how to be a great influence!... Passing on Words of Wisdom to Your Children Finally Made Easy - With all the tasks to do everyday, teaching your kids morals, values and how to be a success can easily be overlooked. There is a consistent, easy and fun way to help parents with the important task of passing on life skills and words of wisdom to their children.... Troubled Teen? What You Can Do As a Parent - When it comes to raising teens, parents do their best. When that teen starts to show mild signs of rebellion, its natural. When a teen starts to get kicked out of school, do drugs, get pregnant, run away then you should start to worry.... Key Conversations to Have With Your College Bound Teens - As our teens embark on a new life in college it is key to have the difficult conversations with them. As parents we are obligated to give our teens the information they need to help them through this changing time.... Criminals in Your Neighborhood - Do You Know Who They Are? - How well do you know your neighbors? Maybe not as well as you think. Statistics show that for every 12 miles there are 7.5 registered sex offenders. How many homes do you and your children drive by each day that are inhabited by sex offenders?... Children, Chores and Praise - Praise is an essential part of offering regular encouragement to a child who would otherwise find the task of household chores undesirable. It also helps remind children that their contributions to the household are appreciated and a necessary component to its functionality. Young children respond especially well to verbal praise, as it contributes to their sense of self-worth.... Creating Success in School - A Parent's Guide - Feeling frustrated because you don't know what to do to help your child succeed in school? Written by an experienced school teacher, this guide will help you navigate the process of opening up the lines of communication with your child so you can motivate them to set and reach their goals. This isn't brain surgery it simply takes love, commitment, and the desire to ensure your child has a healthy, successful future!... Organize Your Children For Current and Future Success - As a parent, teaching children the skill of organization is not just one less cleaning job on the household chore checklist. Some experts consider teaching children organizational skills as fundamental as instructing them about morals, values and other personal signposts. In fact, organization skills taught during childhood are likely to follow the child through adolescence and onto adulthood.... Back-to-School Advice For Parents of Bedwetters - Looking for a solution that will speed up your bed wetting program? Read this for tips on how to get from wet to dry in no time.... The Little Social Graces Add Up to Major First Impressions - We've all heard the saying, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." And yet, one of the things that I have noticed lately is that kids don't seem to know as many of the social graces that many of us learned when we were kids.... Keeping Kids Safe - Never Leave Them Unattended in a Car - The American College of Surgeons says more than 9,000 children, ages 14 and younger, are treated for injuries that occur when they're left unattended in vehicles. What's more, in 2002 more than 100 kids died from being left unattended. One death is too many. This article provides additional facts on unattended kids in cars.... Raising a Child - Some Things Every Parent Should Know - The author shares some child rearing tips and methods learned in his 35 years of experience. Ways that will promote raising a psychologically healthy child.... How to Help Your Child With Homework - Sometimes parents confuse helping their child with homework and completing it for them. It may be easier to just do it yourself, but it's not the best solution. Parents mean well, but it may have negative consequences for your child. See, by doing homework for your child, he/she is not actually learning the material - nor the study skills necessary for success.... Make Early Learning a Joyous Activity - The learning process begins as soon as a baby is aware of the world around her. Parents can make that natural process even richer by teaching their baby things she enjoys.... 5 Things Parents Need to Know When Their Child is Hospitalized - Parents are usually overwhelmed when their child must be hospitalized. Here are five things to know when a parent is faced with this dilema.... Back to School - Start the New School Year Off Right! - Back to school can be a busy and challenging time and it's easy to let things slide in the beginning of the school year. But, if your child struggled with school last year, whether academically, with behavior or organization, or with social skills and friends, it's important to take a few steps now.... Avoid Back-to-School Morning Battles - Tips on Getting Your Kids Out of Bed - Is this your typical morning "wake up kids" dialog? "Well, aren't you on the ball today! Holy moley, you're dressed already. What a great kid." If it is, then read no further and congratulations.... Discipline Your Child - Please - I recently returned from a trip that took me from Orlando, Florida to Seattle, Washington and back. Just like rock bands name their tours, I thought of an appropriate name for my cross country tour - The Screaming of America. Can't you just hear it? Think loud, decibel blasting, ear splitting screams emanating from babes so small you're amazed that their lungs are that fully developed.... Parents and Teenagers - 6 Tips For a Stress Free School Morning - As a parent, do you and your teenager have challenging mornings on school days? Are you wondering what you can do to help make your school mornings less stressful? Here are 6 tips to help you and your teenager experience a stress free school morning.... How Movie Ratings Mislead Well-Meaning Parents - If you are like most parents you have probably sat down to watch a movie with your children and been caught unawares by gratuitous sex, nudity, vulgar language, or even graphic violence exhibited in almost every Hollywood movie. These days, it may seem more of a risk to take your kids to the movies than to send them to play near the road!... Lessons to Bully-Proof Your Child - Are you dealing with child who is the target of bullies? Want it to stop? Of course you do, but are you prepared to do what you must?... Morning Routine - Dad's Time to Shine - Weekday mornings can be a headache. Dad's trying to catch a few more zzz's and Mom's running around fixing lunches, coaxing children to get dressed, brush their teeth, comb/brush their hair and get out of the house in time to make it to school. This does not even address Mom needing to get ready herself. There is a better way.... Teach an Attitude of Gratitude - When we do more than our share of work, we raise kids who feel entitled to more and more. Parents often fall into the trap of believing that their kids should be grateful for parental "sacrifices" when most of the time they don't even understand our efforts as sacrifices in the first place. Time for a Change.... Relax! - Take Seven Easy Steps to Help Your Child Into High School - One of the biggest challenges faced by children the world over occurs during the months of August and September. That's when kids make the transition to high school. And it's not only the kids who feel the strain. For some parents it's just as bad - and for many it's even worse!... How to Deal With Kids - It is really not easy to just build a "family" because having a family is not easy at all. Dealing with kids specifically will really stretch your patience up to their maximum level but as parents, you are expected to stretch that one unlimitedly.... Child Learning - One Activity at a Time - Search high and wide all the days long and you will not find a better resource than playtime to guide and strengthen your child's ability to learn. This article discusses a specific, yet simple playtime strategy to enrich your child's learning ability.... No, Kids, I'm Not Always Fair! - Kids often say their parents aren't being fair. Who says parents have to be?... Strategies For Overweight Children - Put Their Parents in Jail - The number of overweight children is at an all time high and the numbers are increasing. Strategies to reverse this disturbing trend must be created and put into action. One strategy would be to imprison the parents of overweight children, as you would the parent of any child being abused.... Practical Parenting - What Has Happened to Simple Respect? - I'm a mom of six - ranging in age from 16 to 25 (four boys, two girls) and I'm far from perfect and even further from knowing it all about raising kids. However, I do have some pretty firm ideas on teaching children simple respect.... Internet Safety For Children - Teaching your children online safety is as important as teaching them how to cross the road. This article talks to parents about internet risks, and gives recommendations on great sites that will keep them informed.... Wooden Blocks - What's the Big Deal? - One of the extraordinary benefits of playing with blocks is that so very little is required to hold your child's attention for so long. Far different than many of today's passive activities, playing with blocks is an active event that cultivates your child's patience and independent decision making.... The Wolves - Setting: My son Joel's bedroom. About 9:30 pm on a Wednesday night. I'm there to tuck him in. He's been in bed for at least 15 minutes before I get there.... Traditional Wooden Toys For Education and Child Development - Parents today are faced with a bewildering array of fancy toys that all claim to be beneficial to a child's development and education. While there may be some truth in this for a small percentage of modern toys, many are little more than noise making entertainment devices. Many traditional toys, often made of wood, while being simple compared with their modern counterparts, are actually far more educationally beneficial.... What Do Kids Understand About Death and Grief? - Grief is the price we pay for love.What can adults do to help grieving children and adolescents? What do grieving kids need from adults?... Students With Disabilities - Creating Collaborative Partnerships - Tips For Parents (Part 1 of 3) - Students with a range of disabilities are currently being served through exceptional student education and local after-school programs. Of the 49 million students in K-12 education in 2004, a total of 12.8% or more than 6 million received exceptional student education services, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Research shows that students with disabilities are not graduating from high school at rates comparable to students without d... Do You Know Who Your Child is Calling? - Teenagers need privacy, but they also need some guidance and protection. Know what they are doing with their cellular phones so you can do your job as a parent.... Picking Up the Pieces For Children of Divorce - The Children of Divorce can also carry a heavy weight from the separation. Here is some advice that might help them to adjust.... Do You Know Your Child's Friend's Parents? - Depending on where you live, and how long you have lived there, you may already know a lot of the people that have children your age. These children could easily become friends with your own, and it is comforting if you already know the parents of that child. If you don't, however, you do want to be careful.... Dangers of Fluoride - Fluoride Should Not Be Given to Babies Or Children - Do you know of anyone who makes baby formula by mixing water with the powdered formula or anyone who gives their babies "nursery water"? If so, you better read this! It's alarming!... Strive to Be a Perfect Parent - The definition of parenting is the methods, techniques, etc., used or required in the rearing of children. I can definitely tell you about a thousand different definitions on parenting. No one sentence could possibly captivate the perfect meaning or importance of what being a parent is all about.... Raising Children in the Digital Age - The Internet is great, and mobile phones are convenient, but they also make it easier than ever for your children to fall into trouble. Be sure you know how to protect them.... Preparing For Parenting - Having a child is an amazing experience. Anything that is rewarding can often be very stressful, and few things are as rewarding as parenthood. You may be looking for some way to relax, ease your anxiety, and answer the many questions that you have right now. You are certainly not alone. This is something that almost every mother experiences, especially during her first pregnancy!... Words of Wisdom For New Parents - Words of wisdom for new parents will come at you from all directions. Mostly they will be passed on with every good intention. Do not, however, get carried away with wise words from the manufacturers of baby products.... The One Minute Rocket Ship Your Child Will Absolutely Love - Here is a first rate activity that does away with that ho-hum feeling around the house. It puts the fun back into childhood while demonstrating the power of imagination.... Parents and Carers - Why Learning to Read is One of the Most Important Skills Your Child Will Learn - All parents are aware of the importance of reading skills on a child's educational development. This article, written by an expert in literacy for adults and children, examines why those early reading skills are so important. It examines the benefits of good reading skills as well as the effects of poor reading skills and the role of parents in determining success.... Make Our Children Smarter With a Rubik's Cube - The Rubik's Cube is one of the most amazing game in the world, but it is strangely addictive. Would it be even more addictive to the world if it can be proven that it can make children smarter? In this article the writer shows the application of the Rubik's Cube in the real world.... Reading Without Books - 10 Reading Activities You Can Do With Your Child - Ten reading activities you can do with your child which can be incorporated easily into your everyday schedule. This article covers a wide range of early reading skills through simple tasks you and your child will enjoy.... Why Your Child Needs Poems, Rhymes and Songs - Poems, rhymes and songs are play an important role in your child's development. Find out about rhythm and rhyme in the early years, how rhyme helps reading and spelling and the importance of number rhymes and songs. The article also provides simple activities you can do with your child to help them explore rhyme including actions.... Help! My Child Dreads Spelling Tests - Does your child find spelling difficult? Does he dread school spelling tests? He's not alone. This step by step guide will help you and your child get the root of the problem and offer advice on how to overcome it. The author, an expert in family literacy, draws on her own experience with her dyslexic son.... Webkinz Tips - Help For Parents With Webkinz Questions - With just about anything your kids get into, you need to educate yourself. Well webkinz is not any different. When your kid comes to you for answers know where to turn to for Webkinz Tips ... How Parents Can Keep Their Kids Safe on the Internet - There are many hidden dangers on the Internet that put both kids and parents at great risk. Learn what they are and how to keep your family safe online.... 10 Tips For Choosing Storybooks Children Will Love - Are you overwhelmed by the amount of storybooks available for young children in the library or bookstore? Perhaps you are out of touch with modern authors and what young kids read nowadays. Follow my ten simple tips and you'll be choosing storybooks children will be eager to read. Help a child develop a love of reading at an early age.... Tell Me a Story, Please - How to Have Young Children Begging You to Read With Them - Would you like to add some oomph to your story telling or make your child's storybooks come to life for them? Here are ten tips that will turn you into such a good storyteller kids will be begging you to tell them another one. Bedtime stories will never be the same again.... Toys - A Useful Strategy - You buy certain toys for your child and she doesn't want to play with them. Here are some thoughts on that. First of all, your child isn't going to like every toy. Some are just too difficult, and others are just too trivial. So be aware of age appropriate toys. The great ones your child will love and want to play with over and over. Why is that? The answer to that question will help guide your strategy about toys in general.... ABC Learning For Kids Through Digital Coloring Pages - Teaching children the alphabet is one of the most important lessons they will learn. This is the foundation for future learning. Learning should be fun. If a child is happy while they learn, the will learn more easily. Coloring products are the type of product that balance the fun aspect with learning.... Tell 'Em You Love 'Em - Parents, what do you want for you children? Would you want them to be successful, have self discipline, self respect, focus, concentration, confidence, and anything else you can come up with. It's important for kids to have these different characteristics.... Parenting - Get Outside More - One of the easiest ways to fall into boredom and fatigue is to stay indoors too much. You will have an easier time providing quality indoor play if you balance indoor/ outdoor activities. This article considers parent fatigue while exploring specific strategies and advantages related to outdoor activities.... Getting the Girl Kids to School - Do you also battle to get your kids out of bed and off to school? You're not alone!... Single Parent Women Do it Right - Single parenting can be a challenge, so it helps to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Here are some things you can do to improve your cash flow.... Three Tidbits I Wish I'd Known Before Having a Baby - An experienced mother shares some insights on lessons she wishes she had learned before having her newborn baby. Three pieces of knowledge that will help new parents avoid unpleasant surprises.... Mom and Dad, You Are Called to Teach Your Kids Scripture - As a parent God has commissioned us to teach our children His word. God has made a promise to us if we keep this commandment, in Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.... How Do I Parent? - I'm a new parent, what do I do? There are so many things thrown to new parents constantly that parents don't know whether they hit a foul or home run in their parenting skills.... Parenting & Back to School - Getting Everyone Back in the Routine of Things - Back to school time! Learn 3 great secrets to making this crazy time of year a success for your family!... Help With the First Day at Childcare, Pre School Or Kindergarten - So you have been through the process of Choosing a Preschool or Choosing a Daycare, however for a child entering childcare for the first time the transition can be tough. For a parent, it is equally difficult, if not more so. You are entrusting your child's safety and well-being to someone whom you may have just met, and it's perfectly normal to be nervous, scared, and sad. It's also important at this time to go back and review your reasons for s... The Flower - "Daddy! Look! Flowers! Can I pick one for momma?" She was so excited about the silly flowers. They were the same stupid tiger lilies that grew in the back yard every summer. I looked at them and saw that at least ten unopened petals were attached to the same stem formation that had a completely sprouted blossom of brilliant orange. If we picked it now, thought my dense incapacitated mind, the rest of the petals will surely die and we wil... Child Internet Safety - LOL, BRB and other acronyms are those that are commonly use in chatrooms, emails and other types of internet communications. Minors have their own way of speaking online when a parent is in the room if they don't want the adults to know their conversations.... Raising Children - Importance of Nurturing Discipline - Have you seen parents screaming their heads off just to get their children to complete their school homework? Or shouting like an insane soul in pubic simply to get the child to behave? Is it really necessary for all parents to resort to such measures to teach their children to be disciplined or is there a more peaceful method? Read on to find out about an effective method for teaching your child to be disciplined.... Adolescent Peer Pressure - Wanting to Fit In - Parents really can make a difference when they get involved in their teenager's life. Do you know what your teen listens to and reads? Who does your teenager spends time with? Who are your teenagers friends?... Managing Children Behaviors With Tender Loving Care - The positive mentoring of your child is vital to allowing your child to blossom, and develop their innate values, strengths, and abilities. Many parenting problems can be eliminated by having a well thought out strategic plan for addressing children behaviors, and being consistent with these strategies.... Child Learning - One Activity at a Time - Search high and wide all the days long and you will not find a better resource than playtime to guide and strengthen your child's ability to learn. This article discusses a specific, yet simple playtime strategy to enrich your child's learning ability.... Child Learning - Quality Playtime is Essential - One of the great benefits of uninterrupted playtime is the expansion your child's attention span and ability to stay focused. Your child is interested and stays interested because she is exploring something. She's figuring it out. She's making connections and advancing her understanding This article explores the strategy of quality playtime.... Parenting - Making a Schedule - Around the time your child starts talking your ear off, you feel the tectonic shift of parenting start to happen: you go from caring for your child to keeping up with your child. Of course you're still busy tending to your child's basic needs. You just have the added duty of keeping up with her. If you are frequently asking yourself, 'Where is she getting all this energy?'---then it's happening. The duty of keeping up has arrived. Chances are,... Internet Monitoring For the Concerned Parent - Monitor Your Child on the Computer - Being a parent can be hard these days, when you must work till late in the evening and don't get any time to spend with your kids. The internet is a good learning medium for your children, but how safe is it, really?... Md Child Support Enforcement - The Md child support enforcement law ensures the greatest care and support to child through encouraging and persuading parents in order to provide the periodic payment. The expenses on the child food, shelter, clothing, medical care and education are included in the child support and maintenance coverage. The child support enforcement program is mainly run by the human resources department of Maryland.... Online Toddler Games - How to Avoid Tantrums When Playing Online Toddler Games - Playing on the computer can be very exciting for toddlers who want to feel independent and grown-up while imitating older siblings or parents. Here are a few things I've found helpful in setting the ground rules with the computer, avoiding tantrums and bad behavior.... Online Toddler Games - Where to Find the Best Online Toddler Games - Online toddler games can be fun ways to relax with your child, as well as an effortless way to help your child learn key skills (like number and letter recognition) for school. Here are a few tips to help you find the best online toddler games.... Ways to Prevent Teen Pregnancy - 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, star of TV show "Zoey 101", is having a baby. How can that affect your family?... The Scoop on Online Toddler Games - Is Playing Online Toddler Games Bad For Your Child? - Here is a closer look at online games, which I've found to be safe and fun ways for kids to learn preschool and kindergarten skills. Let's take a look at each of these statements and examine the real situation with online toddler games.... Caring For Your Newborn Baby - What do you do when you have washed the baby, dressed him, fed him and made sure he is comfortable, then all of a sudden he busts into a hysterical cry that you don't understand? You are in limbo!... Are U.S. Adoptions Really Such A Bad Idea? - Prospective parents hoping to adopt foreign children now find U.S. visa restrictions and changes in adoption policies have cut their chances. On any given day in the United States, more than 100,000 foster children are waiting to be adopted by someone who can provide a permanent, loving home.... Tips on How to Find a Baby Sitter - It is not difficult to find a baby sitter who you can trust to care for your children while you are taking a few hours off. You just need to make sure you do the necessary research in order to find a sitter that both you and your children like.... Depression and Divorce - Helping Your Children Cope With Both - Divorce affects every child differently. Some children will act out to express their feelings while others will turn inward and become depressed. It is essential that ever parent watches for the signs and indications that their child may be having problems coping with this difficult reality. Depression is serious business that must be attended to immediately!... The Worst Thing You Can Say to Children - Do as I say not as I do. Most kids hate this phrase. Let's face it they don't understand it. It just seems so unfair to the young mind. Sure there are things that we can do that kids can't because of age, experience or most important for their safety, and being an adult has it's benefits.... Teen Sex - How Fashionable is Having Sex For Your Teens? - What is the difference between teen sex and fashion? Is it wearing the "latest" in design or a "latex" condom?... Morning Routines Made Easy - The new school year is quickly approaching which means those lazy summer days are coming to an end. It's back to schedules, routines, and homework. Unfortunately, the start of the school year triggers a whole new set of frustrations for parents.... Create the Right Family Culture and Good Behaviour is Easy - When parents focus on promoting the right culture within their family then children's behaviour will generally fall into line with that culture. This requires parents to be effective leaders of the family rather than just be competent managers of children's behaviour. But what type of culture should we be focusing on? Read the following article to find out about the family culture that has the best outcomes for kids and the values it promotes.... Child Learning - Let Her Figure it Out - This article provides a simple learning philosophy to implement with your child. The easy to use, everyday strategy is designed to increase your child's confidence in her own ability to pursue multiple avenues of problem solving. As she grows older and problem sets become more complex or even unknown (curing cancer for instance), her ability to employ exploratory thinking skills is paramount.... Building Self-esteem in Your Son - The 7 Key Secrets - The concept of self-esteem is based on our ability to think well about ourselves and to cope with what life has in store for us. Self-esteem is focused on whether we feel we are worthy and whether we feel we have a right to be who we are and to value who we are without being constantly criticised for who we are. The value we place on ourselves is critical to our sense of self worth.... Great and Fun Activities You Can Do With Your Children - They Never Have to Be Bored Ever Again - Create fun magic moments in the life of yourself and your children. Here are some fun and fantastic ways to keep them amused.... Math Help For Your Child - This school year, why not get the math help for your child they so richly deserve. Making math fun for kids of all ages is the best way to help them learn. Try a series of home projects featuring math games and riddles and watch their grades skyrocket!... Top Parenting Tips - 1. Tell your child that you love them EVERY day. 2. Show your child you love them everyday.... You Have Been Bullied - Now It's Time to Make Sure it Doesn't Happen to Your Children Too - Bullying can mean many different things to different people. Some examples of bullying will include: name calling, being hit, having your possessions snatched, being attacked or teased because of who you are in terms of your colour, religion, sexuality etc. The truth is bullies will attack for whatever twisted reason they choose.... #1 Back-to-School Item Parents MUST Consider - The weight of the world is already on their shoulders. Lighten their load with an ergonomic back-saving backpack. How does it work? Check it out.... Children at Risk - Home Alone With the Computer - Because parents are so busy and a family needs to have two or more jobs to survive, children often are alone for extended periods of time. The companion has become the computer; the friends are known or unknown subscribers to Facebook, MSN, Twitter or other latest social gathering pages; the mentors and counselors are names, who are often strangers, on these social sites.... When Your Child's Pet Dies - A pet is part of the family, so when a beloved pet dies, it is a difficult time for everyone. Here are some tips to help your child grieve the loss of a pet.... Swimmer's ear and chlorinated pools - Family Health With Harold C. Thompson D.O.. Broadcast Date: Monday, August 18, 2008 ... Sticky film in the mouth - Family Health With Harold C. Thompson D.O.. Broadcast Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 ... Adult A-D-H-D - Family Health With Harold C. Thompson D.O.. Broadcast Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 ... 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