May 2nd, 2010
Parenting Advice: Are You Enmeshed With Your Children?
Parents may enmesh with children when they want control over their children and they want their children to take responsibility for them. By over-involving themselves in their children's lives, they hope to tie their children to them in such a way that their children feel guilty over their parent's pain and responsible for it.
May 1st, 2010
What Is Child Honouring?
How we regard a child is the vital mirror with which that child's innate potential comes alive. Children who feel seen, loved and honoured are far more able to become loving parents and productive citizens later on. Child Honouring means seeing children for the creatively intelligent people they are, respecting their personhood as their own, recognizing them as essential members of the community and providing the fundamental nurturance they need in order to flourish.
Apr 26th, 2010
Q&A: My Two-Year Old Refuses To Listen
Read a query from a parent about his two-year old and the advice he received from our Clinical Psychologist. Are you concerned about your child's behavior? Want answers to parenting queries? Write in and get your own queries answered by our child experts.
Apr 12th, 2010
How To Deal With Your Teen’s Growing Up Angst
One of the few common things that appear to cause so much anxiety to teens are the changes their bodies undergo. But anger is definitely not a suitable way of handling the confusion many parents feel as their children knock on the door of adulthood.
Apr 7th, 2010
Happy Marriages Make Happy Kids
Having children can take a toll on married life. The romance, the vibrancy and the color of married life starts fading away and changing nappies, school donations, late night colic attacks and trips to the doctor take priority over love life. To be a role model for a happy, loving marriage, ‘up’ your love meter as a couple and you'll be better parents too.
Mar 31st, 2010
Raising Kids: Modeling Good Manners
Children model their parents and will adopt good manners only if they them displayed in the immediate neighborhood. At every step of the way, parents are constantly showing their kids the right and wrong ways to behave. Bad language and aggressive behavior send the wrong messages to your highly impressionable children.
Mar 27th, 2010
Parenting Tips For Single Moms – Part 2
Even a working woman in a two-parent household finds it hard to juggle work and household chores. Single mothers often neglect their own well-being for the sake of their children. As a single mom, asking for support when you need it and not trying to do everything yourself will help you keep going for the long haul.
Mar 24th, 2010
Tackling Temper Tantrums In Tiny Tots
Temper tantrums are a small child’s way of trying to cope with frustrations, or with a lack of attention. They are common between the ages of one and four. As a child grows and develops more refined verbal communication skills, temper tantrums often disappear.
Mar 24th, 2010
Violent Video Games: Should Parents Be Concerned?
Kids these days are exposed to a variety of video games. But it appears it’s not all doom and gloom on the violent video games front. Just because these games include some violence does not mean your child is going to turn out to be a violent killer when he grows up.
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