What Use Is A Playground Where You Can't See The Children?

When is enough enough. What measures do parents and institutions have to take to protect children. This one saddens me.

Feeding Picky Eaters - 5 Tips to End Food Battles

Feeding picky children can be frustrating. Getting food on the table that the whole family will eat is hard enough, but when you have a little one with a limited set of food preferences it can be especially challenging. Here are 5 easy tips to get even the pickiest eater to eat well.

Fun Ways To Keep Kids Entertained

As a parent it often seems one of my most time consuming jobs is that of entertainment advisor. Whether it's because my children are stuck inside due to bad weather, they've done everything and played all their games over a weekend or holiday period or they are just plain bored it seems I constantly need to come up with some way to keep them amused.

Being Gentle is a Virtue Too, Teach It To Your Children Early

By giving our children, and ourselves for that matter, permission to live with gentleness in our lives, we also give them hope. Hope that life can be fair, fun, entertaining, educational and fulfilling. Obviously, we still need to teach them how others will not act with a sense of fairness or ethics and integrity, but just because others do it doesn’t mean that the fair-minded have to succumb to the depths of the common and vulgar who won’t play by the rules and push everything to extremes.

Understanding the Basics of Autism and Discipline

There are never hard and fast rules about discipline with any child, and most parents struggle with it, at least at first. There is a fine line between wanting to show your children love by letting things slide and by loving them by making sure they grow up to be good people. When it comes to autism and discipline, it can be even harder to navigate.

A Parenting Tip - The 3 Top Mistakes Parents Make

Which parenting tip should you follow? If you are feeling overwhelmed by your parenting choices, you can be on solid ground by simply avoiding these three common parenting mistakes.

Coping with Bedwetting: Dealing with Bullies

Not everyone your child meets is going to be kind and compassionate about his or her bedwetting problem. Does this mean sleepovers and campouts are out? Help your child plan ahead for these situations to avoid bullying right from the start.

Isabelle Zehnder Announces Positive Family Solutions, LLC

Isabelle Zehnder, Founder and President of the Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse (CAICA) is announcing she is expanding. She has recently founded Positive Family Solutions, LLC to provide Professional Child, Teen, and Parent Coaching services. Isabelle will continue to serve families and the public through her advocacy work with CAICA.

Sharing the Responsibilities - Our Family's Guide to Summer Fun

Are you looking forward to spending time with your children this summer vacation? Find out my plans to motivate my children to work together as a team so we can get out the door this summer and enjoy the sunshine!

Figurines and Children

Figurines are amazing gift and collectors items. Sometimes referred to as dolls or small statues, they can make amazing home decorative or collectibles display pieces for any home or office, school etc.

Parenting Chat Rooms Provide Valuable Support to Parents

A few decades ago, if anyone told a mother-to-be that there would soon be a means for her to hook up with other mothers-to-be world-wide-and that it would not even be necessary to use the phone to get in contact with them-can you think she would have taken you seriously?

Avoiding the Blame Game

Since children imitate most of what their parents do, it is important for you to teach them through action, not just words. The values and morals you want your child to learn will only be passed on if you live them first. Avoiding the blame game is one way to teach your child about responsibility. Even if you are right, you do not want to teach your children that it is okay to pass the blame onto somebody else.

Teaching Your Children Through Leading by Example

Children, especially very young children, tend to idolize mom and dad. How often have you heard children saying they want to be just like mom or dad when they grow up? Parents need to set good examples because their children tend to follow in their footsteps.

How The Self-Esteem Movement Has Hurt Our Kids

I've had it! I'm fed up and I'm speaking out. Self esteem, the all encompassing, 'I'm so wonderful mantra' has become just too much. What started out innocently enough and was even beneficial has morphed in to a world where one achieves simply by breathing and an ever increasing amount of parents are afraid to hold their children to standards simply because they're terrified they might somehow negatively impact their child's sense of self.