Archive for 'Parents + Kids' Category
Buying Top Rated Children’s Automobile Seats
9 October 2009Choosing the best car seat requires a more detailed awareness of the field than most people have, as between the different brands and the important safety rules, it’s far from a simple choice. We’ll help by translating, one by one, what you need to know for easy comprehension.
Double Pushchairs for Your Babies
25 August 2009Twins can be a lot of fun, but are really difficult to manage in their early days, especially if you have to take them along in a pushchair. Rather than having two separate pushchairs for the purpose, it is useful to buy a double pushchair for them. You can get one even if your babies are just a year apart and neither has started walking yet.
Remarkable Ideas to Keep the Tiddlers Amused for Ages
25 August 2009Big Foot Relay. Have the children bring 2 shoeboxes with them. Tape the lids onto the corners, then cut a one-inch-wide and four-inch long slit in each top. Have the contestants slip their feet into the slits in the boxes and race.
Batty Bowling. Acquire a bit of trivial or odd items that can be bumped […]
Big Wheels Are The Ultimate Three Wheel Bike
30 November 2008It should required that every parent who has a child should give his or her child a big wheel as a gift. These things are a blast for kids. They have three wheels and can go real fast. The back two wheels are spread apart and in the center is a seat to sit […]
Children, Entitlement and God
16 June 2008“Setting the alarm on Sunday mornings is inhuman…..God should know that!” Those were my adolescent thoughts every weekend when my parents forced me to church. “I can get more out of my headphones and the Beatles.” It was this way as far back as I can remember. Early Sunday school, then later Bible studies, […]
In Defense of the Jelly Bean
3 June 2008Should a parent give a child a tangible reward when he or she has behaved properly or performed some important task such as doing homework, or helping around the house? Understandably, many parents are hesitant to use incentives, such as prizes, or food treats, to influence their children, especially considering the negative comments by […]
Job-Hunting While Pregnant
25 May 2008It’s happening all over: A woman is laid off while she’s pregnant and finds herself job-hunting as her due date approaches. Another woman’s organization tanks, and she finds herself out of work just as she realizes that that she’s expecting. A third finds her consulting business too slow to sustain her financially, so she starts […]
Are We Breeding Bad Credit Teenagers?
23 May 2008It wasn’t until about the fourth time that I gave my teenager an allowance advance that I realized I was nurturing her to become a bad credit consumer. Living free at home with no bills to pay, how would she balance a budget when she moved out on her own? Would she continue to borrow […]
Potty Training …To Train or Not to Train?
20 April 2008I have always found the notion of toilet training a toddler to be a bit much. I didn’t feel right about pushing my girls to do something I felt would eventually come naturally. At three years old, both my girls were potty trained … not because I read books and raced them to the porcelain […]
Adolescence - Clues and Advice
6 April 2008Be sure to respect the intellectual changes that mark adolescence. Adolescent thinking can and should reflect: abstract notions, the relationships of things to each other and people to each other, multiple responses to the same condition or question and the idea of thinking itself.
Too often, we are unwilling to recognize the leap from […]