Forming friendships are a very important part of growing up. Friendship or the lack there of, can really make of break a child’s experience of school and boost or damage her self esteem. I found as a parent, that I often wonder and worry about the amount and quality of my two daughters’ friendships. We [...]
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Dealing with Sibling Rivalry
If you have more than one child, or is even just pregnant with a second child, you will know what sibling rivalry is. Sibling rivalry is the age old jealousy and fighting between brothers and sisters. In today’s age with reconstituted families – with half and stepbrothers or sisters – we can even notice more [...]
Categorized in Discipline, Sibling Rivalry
Tags: Discipline, Sibling rivalry
Using Time Out to Discipline Your Child
Since Super Nanny and Nanny 911 been introduced into our households on television, most parents with young children started using time-out as a discipline strategy in their houses. Unfortunately most parents tend to give up after a while and things go back to the way it was before. I do believe that time-out is very [...]
Categorized in Discipline, Using Time-Out
Tags: Discipline, Punishing your child
When Your Child Refuses to go to School
As many as one out of four children regularly refuses to go to school. For 2% of children school refusal becomes a routine problem. It is extremely frustrating to parents to have to deal with a upset child who does not want to go to school, in the midst of having to get everybody in [...]
Categorized in Breastfeeding, School Refusal
Please don’t go!
Separation anxiety is not only painful to your child, but also painful to the parent. Most parents will be able to recall some instance where their child was extremely clingy and tearful at the prospect of their mom or dad leaving them somewhere or with someone that suddenly became a baby monster. The reason why [...]
Categorized in Separation Anxiety
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