Aug 19th, 2010
Are You a High Hopes Parent? How Your Positive Thinking Affects Your Child
Our world challenges us greatly to shift our attention to the hopeful, to what brings and enhances life. And I believe it affects our parenting profoundly. How can we stay focused on hope, on the positive, and on what is working in our daily lives with our children? Here are five considerations for hopeful parenting in troubling times.
Aug 19th, 2010
Positive Classroom Discipline Techniques: Teaching Kids To Self-Discipline
Classroom discipline is mandatory but its implementation style is equally important. Overly disciplinarian and authoritarian ways can mar a child’s personality. Positive classroom discipline techniques can teach kids to respect teachers and themselves.
Aug 18th, 2010
Mama’s Boys: Shobhaa De On Indian Men And Their Mothers
Indian men love their mothers, says Shobhaa De. Her snarky and humorous take on why sensible Indian wives should not even attempt to compete with their men's mamas is a warning for Indian moms to take a look at what they're turning their sons into.
Aug 17th, 2010
Classic Children’s Stories: The Three Musketeers
‘The Three Musketeers’ is undoubtedly one of the most popularly referred-to novels of its time. It shot to fame all over again when the name of the third musketeer became a million dollar question in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, perhaps the most talked-about Indian movie of the decade.
Aug 17th, 2010
‘I Don’t Want To Go To School!’ And What You Can Do About It
If you’re a parent, it’s almost inevitable that you’re going to be faced with your child not wanting to go to school at some point. The most important thing is that you identify the problem correctly and find out whether not going to school is the symptom of a bigger problem or just your child's way of avoiding responsibility.
Aug 16th, 2010
How To Help Your Child Overcome Phobias
While children overcome some fears as they grow up, some of them may persist – becoming stumbling-blocks in their daily lives. In more serious cases, they can severely impact a child’s ability to interact sociably with other children and their ability to meet their own needs. Here's how you can help a child overcome phobias.
Aug 15th, 2010
Advice For Parents: What Creates Confidence?
As parents we cannot teach our children confidence if we ourselves lack it. But, no matter how much we may have been de-valued as children, we owe it to ourselves and our kids to learn to value ourselves now.
Aug 15th, 2010
Step-Parent Advice: Winning Ways For Non-Biological Moms And Dads
Parenting is the most important job of our lives, and often considered the most difficult too. If that is true, then step-parenting would become a close-to-impossible job! It doesn’t have to be that way, though - here are a few tips to help step-parents surmount some of the hurdles and pitfalls.
Aug 14th, 2010
Parenting Advice From A Teacher: An Educator’s Take On Child Happiness
Having headed the primary section of a school for quite a while has allowed me to interact with an interesting cross-section of students and parents. My consistent advice to parents was to be there for them… to enjoy every moment by sharing ‘happy time’ with them.
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