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The process of learning parenting is rough on the first born. Inexperienced parents can have the best intentions and still make mistakes that have long range negative impact on their children. Child-Compassionate Parenting adheres to developmental stages and provides for the healthy personality to develop while maintaining parental control and [...]
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At the grocery store, at a large store like Home Depot, or anywhere else with a shopping cart, too many parents do not properly fasten children in carts. I have seen children climbing around on merchandise under the huge shelves in Home Depot, which is very dangerous. I have seen parents [...]
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Choosing a name for your baby needs to be a special time in a young couple’s life. This name will represent a life and have meaning throughout their life. Making this selection should require and take some thought. Many people will choose a name based on a family history or [...]
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Traveling anywhere with a Toddler is always an adventure. These are things that I have discovered over time are useful for dad to have with him. I don’t always have them, but I try to make an effort to have most of them with me when traveling with my three year old daughter. [...]
What makes grandparenting hard? Given all of the pleasures that this stage in life brings (see April 2006 MFC Newsletter), what would be difficult about grandparenting? I’ve heard several answers to this question and they all relate to FEAR.
One woman told me that grandparenting is hard because “I don’t want to impose.” [...]
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The real deal is real simple. Your children will be having an open house at their school. It will likely come in the first week of school. To go or not to go … that is the question.
As a concerned parent and teacher I would like to share some ideas [...]
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My daughter had been babysitting the same child for quite some time. She told me that bedtime was just a nightmare. The child did not want to go to bed, did not want to quit playing, and that it would take an hour at times to get the child to finally go to [...]
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Remember this old joke? It takes place in the Garden of Eden.
Eve, looks at Adam and asks, “Do you love me, Adam?”
Adam raises his eyebrows and replies, “Who else?”
Who else, indeed? So is the reality for the “only child”. From our earliest memories, we were aware [...]