Keep Your Kids Safe in Your Car

Anyone with children knows that car safety is important. They are so little and cars are so big, they have to be taught safety by example as well as enforcing safety rules. Contrary to popular belief, children actually listen when their parents talk to them. The only kids who refuse to listen are kids who have never been expected to.

Of Time & Money

Recently, a friend said, “When you give money to people, it validates them.” I immediately agreed. After all, I like the feeling I get when people give me money. I would even say it makes me feel validated. If it’s a paycheck, I think, “Wow! They’re giving me money for what I do; I must be doing a good job.” If it’s a birthday gift, I think “Wow! I’m getting money just for being born, I must be worthwhile,” and then I stick it in the family bank account to be lost forever.

Parenting Your Teenager With Love And Support

You find yourself begging your teen to go places with the family. As soon as your teen gets into the car with you, he begins complaining about you or his life, and how miserable everything in his world is. In just a few minutes of being within the same five-foot radius of one another, the two of you are already in an argument.

Homework - Multi-Tasking or Distracting?

Learn how to reduce homework time by reducing distractions. A high school student shares her tips on how she cut her daily homework time in half.

Adopting An Abandoned Child Or Baby

Adopting an abandoned baby or child. The key to understanding and successfully parenting is educating yourself of what your baby or child has learned. Adopting is an overwhelming, joyous and life changing experience; however adopting an abandoned child that deserves a second chance will be one of the most rewarding experiences you will ever have. However, doing so should not be taken lightly and deserves education, awareness and understanding.

Discerning Between Useful And Useless Parenting Advice

Parenting advice is all around us every day, from experts to novices, from our parents to fellow parents that we meet at the sporting event. We are constantly bombarded by some form advice. Simply giving parenting advice is uncomplicated because everyone has had some kind of know-how in the topic.

Hazing 101

Hazing activities can occur when a person is trying to join an athletic team, club, professional or social organization, school group, a fraternity/sorority or the military.

Mothering 101 - Learn the Rules to Win the Parenting Game

Mothering and parenting skills don't show up by magic after giving birth. Learn the strategies you need to know to give your family a happy future together.

Attachment Parenting - Whose Life Is This Anyway

Attachment Parenting sounds ideal, and is surely one of the best ways to raise children. But how great is it for Mom and Dad?

In The Home Of Gimme Gimme Never Gets Why Do Our Kids Not Know Their Manners Yet?

What is really going on with our children and their behavior? Why are their so many bullies, and less happy children? Read on to find out what food can do for your family, besides feed them.

Pagan Family, USA

Feeling connected socially is important to all of us. It is difficult enough raising a child without having to battle the inhibitions of your neighbors or watch your children retreat from you and your beliefs in order to fit in with their school mates.

A Mother's Sacrifice

It is a wish that we could all be great parents to our kids. We journey forward sometimes confused in which direction to take with their future. How do we trust the writings of other people who try to teach us to raise our kids the best way? Most of us don't we just use the instincts we are born with. That is what my mom did, we just love her for all she has done for us.

Transforming the Parent - Teen Relationship Through Coaching

Parenting the current generation of teenagers requires a new approach. The old parenting by command and control or the other extreme, parenting by permission are just not working. The new Parent as Coach Approach is the best way to have a mutually loving, trusting and respectful relationship with your teenager.

Anger Management Tips For Moms

Anger - it sounds like a dirty word, but the more we try to avoid it, the more we feel it. Is anger so bad? Is there a positive way we Moms can learn from our anger and model productive ways to express feelings?