Archive for: Skills

Holiday Stress: Tips To Survive Thanksgiving With Your Family

Nov 23rd, 2010

Holiday Stress: Tips To Survive Thanksgiving With Your Family

The holidays should be enjoyable times with fond memories, not the subject of dread every year. And yet, each year, families who have flash backs to last year's disaster, look forward with trepidation to this year's. Here's how to ensure that you enjoy this time with your family.

Emotional Incest And Psychological Child Abuse: Will He Or She Change?

Nov 23rd, 2010

Emotional Incest And Psychological Child Abuse: Will He Or She Change?

Abuse has many faces - verbal, physical, sexual, and emotional. Abusers are often experts at appearing open to learning and changing, which is part of their covert abuse. It is vitally important for people at the other end of abuse to give up expecting an abuser to change.

Child Development: Multiple Intelligences And Learning In Children

Nov 22nd, 2010

Child Development: Multiple Intelligences And Learning In Children

Some kids are gifted in creating tunes and phrases; some excel in music, some in the arts. Some are brilliant in math, while others are skilled at silently observing and absorbing. Read on to learn how Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences applies to your child.

Green Thanksgiving Ideas: 4 Eco Tips To Celebrate Thanksgiving

Nov 21st, 2010

Green Thanksgiving Ideas: 4 Eco Tips To Celebrate Thanksgiving

If you've been spending most of the year trying to protect the earth and its natural resources, you might wonder how you can go green this Thanksgiving Day. These four eco-tips will help you save money, save waste and celebrate a green Thanksgiving.

Family Holidays: Travel Tips For Your 2011 Family Vacation

Nov 21st, 2010

Family Holidays: Travel Tips For Your 2011 Family Vacation

Booking a family holiday can be a nightmare, with hours spent searching online for the ideal destination, only to find you've been too slow and everything is fully booked. Family-friendly travel company, Tots to Travel, is taking the stress out of holiday bookings by offering to do all the leg work for parents.

Thanksgiving Thoughts: 3 Levels Of Gratitude and Happiness

Nov 20th, 2010

Thanksgiving Thoughts: 3 Levels Of Gratitude and Happiness

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's time for a check-up to see how our hearts are doing - and I don't mean cardiovascular health. I'm talking about the condition of our gratitude heart. Take a look at the 3 levels of gratitude to determine your current condition, and decide what steps you can take to improve your 'heart health.'

Conscious Parenting: How to Fully Accept Your Child and Yourself

Nov 20th, 2010

Conscious Parenting: How to Fully Accept Your Child and Yourself

In our society, children are taught that love is shown to them when they do certain acts, and it is not shown to them if they mess up. But when children feel their parents see them as beautiful rather than ‘bad’ or ‘negative’, they naturally change because the child feels they are accepted unconditionally.

SOS Children’s Villages: A Loving Home For Every Child

Nov 19th, 2010

SOS Children’s Villages: A Loving Home For Every Child

SOS Children’s villages are an international charity for children. It aims to provide a family environment for orphaned kids. The unique feature of this child sponsorship organization is the house mother who brings up around 10 children of varying age groups, like in any other large family.

Thanksgiving Activities For Students: Teach Kids Thinking Skills And Gratitude

Nov 18th, 2010

Thanksgiving Activities For Students: Teach Kids Thinking Skills And Gratitude

Having students reflect upon aspects of their lives to be thankful is a common activity. In this activity students are required to think of aspects of their lives that they wouldn't normally see as something to be thankful for, and put a positive spin on the event.