Archive for: Emotions

Child Psychology: Understanding Children And Their Temperaments

Dec 11th, 2011

Child Psychology: Understanding Children And Their Temperaments

Understanding children and their temperament is one important key to better growing-up development of each child’s personality vis-à-vis the world at large.

Parenting Tips: Five Reasons To Stop Saying Good Job

Sep 23rd, 2011

Parenting Tips: Five Reasons To Stop Saying Good Job

Must reading for every parent. It's important to support and encourage our kids, but here's why saying 'Good job!' creates negative consequences for your child.

Power Struggles With Your Child: Should You Give In Or Not?

Sep 13th, 2011

Power Struggles With Your Child: Should You Give In Or Not?

Here's how you can subtly - but deftly - avert a power struggle with your child. All you need is a bit of tact, some craftiness and oodles of patience.

Dealing With Your Teenagers: Mini-Monsters Or Adults-In-The-Making?

Sep 1st, 2011

Dealing With Your Teenagers: Mini-Monsters Or Adults-In-The-Making?

We were teenagers ourselves once, and went through the same angst that our children now experience. Yet, times have changed - and so has the face of rebellion.

How Setting Limits For Children Negates The Need For Discipline

Jul 20th, 2011

How Setting Limits For Children Negates The Need For Discipline

Setting limits and outlining boundaries actually helps kids feel more secure. They display self control more readily and happily take responsibility because they understand the reasons behind it.

Parenting Tips: Be A Good Role Model By Being Nice To Others

Jul 17th, 2011

Parenting Tips: Be A Good Role Model By Being Nice To Others

We all tell our kids that they should be nice to people. But the best way to teach this is to model it for your children, especially with people we don't like.

How To Avoid Power Struggles With Your Defiant Child

Jul 7th, 2011

How To Avoid Power Struggles With Your Defiant Child

How do you nip escalating fights over power in the bud? In part two of our series, James shows you three powerful techniques for defusing defiant power struggles.

Child Behaviour: A Day In The Mind Of Your Defiant Child

Jul 3rd, 2011

Child Behaviour: A Day In The Mind Of Your Defiant Child

If you’re the parent of a defiant child, Are you gearing up for another difficult year with him - hoping that you’ll be able to manage without falling apart?

Divorced Dads, Here’s How To Be A Great Father To Your Kids

Jun 24th, 2011

Divorced Dads, Here’s How To Be A Great Father To Your Kids

It’s a pity that society labels divorced fathers as dead beat parent. There are a lot of amazing divorced fathers and we can learn a lot from them.