Parenting Groups are Important for Stay at Home Moms

Stay at home mothers, for the most part those who are adjusted to working full-time outside of the home in the labor force will frequently relatively fast determine the big value of having the fellowship of other adults when they join a parenting group.

Unlocking your Child's Potential

At the end of the day, potential is the ability to believe that you can do something. Your child's potential is as unlimited as they want it to be. As parents we need to help our children develop their full potential so that they can grow into the best people they can possibly be.

Controlling the Demands of your Teenager's Social Life

Before children are old enough to get their driver’s licenses, their social lives are largely dependent on your willingness to drive them around. Sometimes a child can even lay on serious guilt as a way to control his or her parents. You have to teach your children to consider your needs when you feel like they are putting too many demands on your plate.

On Losing My Cool

I am the mother of two girls, a seven-year-old and a three-and-a-half-year-old. I don't spank. I remind myself I don't spank at least a dozen times a day. Sometimes the reminder doesn't take and I yell, or worse, smack one on the butt. I lose my cool. How do I get it back? Good question!

Encourage Activity Outdoors

There are so many things that keep our kids entertained, inside, that we forget how much they need to be participating in outdoor activities. What can we do to encourage activity outdoors that will be fun and make them want to be outside even more?

Basic Human Rights For All

Are children worthy of basic human rights?

Raising Healthy Children Simply

For the first time in one hundred years the new generation of children will not outlive their parents. In an age of tremendous advancements in the technological, scientific and medical realms, we seem to have lost something infinitely more precious and meaningful - life itself.

Do You Leave Your Child In The Care Of A Maid?

When you leave your child in the care of a maid, you need to realize that all your parenting ideals are essentially sent for a toss.

Overweight Kids!

Unfortunately, America has a reputation for having a population of many unhealthy, overweight adults. Well, it starts early. The more shocking matter of truth is that there are more overweight, underweight or generally unfit children in our country now than there are adults! It is very important to encourage all children to play outdoors, or even participate in a sport or athletic hobby - for the sake of his or her overall health.

Tips For Encouraging Your Child's Emotional Development

Encouraging your child's emotional development will begin about the day that you bring that precious bundle home from the hospital, and will not end until the day you send him off to college. However, the toddler years are a key time for encouraging your child's emotional development so that he will grow into a happy and well-adjusted child and adult.

The Least Restrictive Environment

An overview of the Vive! Model based on the idea that in a least restrictive environment a child can safely and successfully learning and growth. By working with teens and young adults exclusively in their real-world environments, they can develop better coping and self-management skills.

Teens - Are They Really That Hard to Raise?

Everyone knows that teens are so hard to get along with. Between their music and their laziness and the way they only want to do what they want to do, they can drive a parent crazy! But does it have to be this way?

9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You and Your Child

Personal growth and parenting aren't often words put together in the same sentence. Yet parenting provides the perfect opportunity for growth. And not just for our child's growth, but for our own. If we really want to bring out the best in our children, we need to call forth the best in ourselves. 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child is a brand new book that provides a blueprint for parents to empower their children and themselves, rather than struggling for control.

What to Do When Your Teenagers Have Friends You Don't Approve of

Life with a teenager can be very interesting. One day, you understand each other perfectly and the next, it is like you are living on two different planets.