Family Activities: How To Celebrate Halloween Like An American

Oct 3rd, 2010

Family Activities: How To Celebrate Halloween Like An American

In a globalized world, there are no borders when it comes to celebrating holidays like Halloween. But when it comes to celebrating this October 31st holiday properly, the Americans are the experts. Here's how they do it and how you can do it too.

Emotional Healing: Empower Your Child To Deal With Negative Emotions

Oct 3rd, 2010

Emotional Healing: Empower Your Child To Deal With Negative Emotions

How do we empower our children? How do help them through the tough times in life and how do we make sure the negative 'stuff' doesn't follow them into adulthood? As a family counselor I know how empowering it is for a child to know they are in control of their feelings and emotions.

Top Three Mistakes Parents Make With Tweens And Teens

Oct 2nd, 2010

Top Three Mistakes Parents Make With Tweens And Teens

While scary for parents, the normal individualization process during the tween and teen years doesn’t have to involve power struggles and hard feelings if parents avoid these three common parenting mistakes.

Building Confidence In Children – By Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Oct 2nd, 2010

Building Confidence In Children – By Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Susan Jeffers is the best-selling author of author of 'Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway®'. In her guest blog, adapted from her book 'Life is Huge! Laughing, Loving and Learning From It, she offers three of her favorite tips for building confidence in children.

Preventing Childhood Obesity: The Fight For Our Children’s Health

Oct 1st, 2010

Preventing Childhood Obesity: The Fight For Our Children’s Health

Obesity in the USA has gone from a problem to a crisis to a full-blown epidemic. Childhood obesity rates have tripled in this country over the last three decades – one in every three children is now overweight.

Spiritual Parenting: How To Transform Your Relationship With Yourself

Oct 1st, 2010

Spiritual Parenting: How To Transform Your Relationship With Yourself

Our relationships and life experiences are a reflection of our inner world. How we see the world and interpret the actions of others depends on our relationship with our self. To change your relationships with others, you’ve got to change your relationship with yourself.

Positive Parenting: How To Help Your Child Cope With World News

Sep 30th, 2010

Positive Parenting: How To Help Your Child Cope With World News

We need to keep our children in the know about with what is happening in the world. It is not enough to teach them reading, sciences and history. We need to educate them, so that they are connected and well-informed about what is happening all around us.

Child Psychology: The Imprints Parents Leave On Their Children

Sep 30th, 2010

Child Psychology: The Imprints Parents Leave On Their Children

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. Since a child’s first association for most of their formative years is with their parents, we need to be aware of what imprints we are leaving on our children.

Communicating With Children: How To Get Your Kids To Listen

Sep 29th, 2010

Communicating With Children: How To Get Your Kids To Listen

How can I get my child to listen to me? Being a parent is not about dictatorship as some parents believe. Rather it is a two-way communication between parent and child. We need to model listening to our kids and this one thing you can be very sure of: if you never listen to your kids they will not listen to you.