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So your child has expressed an interest in riding a bike. Now what do you do? Well first you need to find a suitable bicycle. If you do buy a bike, take your son with you to the bicycle shop and get expert advice to be sure the bike fits him. Don’t get a bike …
Parents who really believe that spanking is the only way to discipline usually continue to do it, no matter how many family counselors or parenting specialists advise against it. Parents who are unsure about ways to discipline, but who are open to learning other ways to guide or discipline their children, DO usually try other …
First of all, let em state that I don’t believe that chronological age should be the determining factor in these decisions. It’s very normal for young teens to be paying lots of attention to their hair and appearance. The reasons you should or shouldn’t let your daughter highlight her hair should be based on other …
Teen Fashion Guidelines: When to Let Your Child Take Control – Hair Highlighting Read More »
One of the most difficult times we face as parents is when our children enter their teen years. There are many reasons why our children seem quiet, rebellious or changed and sometimes understanding what it is they are going through helps us to deal with it. In the middle teen years, teens often make broad …
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How does a parent keep a child from breaking the rules? Obviously, it is not always easy. Some form of effective punishment is essential to letting your teens know what you will and will not accept from them. One punishment tool that is used a lot is grounding. I feel that grounding does not usually …
If you are thinking about talking to your child about sex, but are looking for some support material to read first, here are a few suggestions. One very new book is called “Keys to Your Child’s Healthy Sexuality,“ by Dr. Chrystal de Freitas, which is written for parents. (Barrons; 6.95) Another good source of information …
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Question: What information is available on teens and hysteria (i.e.. conversion reactions, psychosomatic diseases, etc.) My daughter,15 has complained of pains throughout her body and has collapsed and has been brought to hospital. Our MD has indicated that it is probably hysteria or conversion reactions. She is under the care of a therapist and psychiatrist. …
Gift giving is an age old tradition as well as a reciprocal social courtesy that will be expected of your teen when he or she becomes an adult. It is in their best long term interest to start learning NOW how to budget and save part of their earned money or allowance for gifts. If …
Many parents write to me for advice or guidelines to use when their children start dating. I have not found a sample dating contract among my professional books, but there is a book that might help you to develop one. âPick Up Your Socks, and Other Skills Growing Children Need,â Elizabeth Crary, (Parenting Press, Seattle, …
At about 15 many teens go through a period of being introspective and moody. They seem to be thinking through how they feel about themselves and figuring out how this perception matches with what others think of them. Most of them work through this and come to terms with their self image by age 16. …
Infants should be breast fed or formula fed for the first year of life. They should not be started on regular whole milk until after their first birthday. My reasons for saying this are as follows: 1. Regular milk has much more salt and protein in it than either breast milk or infant formula, and …
Infants love to be active. Just give them the space and opportunity. For the three- to six-month-old, here are some suggestions: 1. Turn-over games. Babies never tire of being turned from front to back, and back to front, and on and on. 2. Kicking toys attached to the sides of his crib are great fun. …
Baby’s muscle control improves rapidly in the second to fourth months, moving down from neck and shoulders to include the upper back. If you pull him gently into sitting position, he can support his head and shoulders and the upper part of his spine, the remaining sag is from the waist down. ⢠By now, …
Getting moving opens up a new world of fun for your baby, but a hazardous one. – Check and recheck your safety precautions. And remember the floor is now his natural habitat, so whenever you lift him off the floor and into any kind of seat he must be strapped in, and it must be so …
After three months, your baby will cry much less than before, because however often she starts, picking her up will usually stop her. The nature of her crying changes too, and although you might not be able to describe her cry language in words, you’ll certainly find yourself reacting differently to different cries. You know …
Many six to nine month old babies won’t sit on a lap at all. They grab for clothes or hair and haul themselves to use the adult’s knee for a trampoline. It’s another couple of months before your baby is able to support his full weight, though. But once he can, it won’t be long …
Conventional crawling means progressing across the floor on hands and knees, but babies aren’t concerned with convention — only with getting across the room to see something on the far side! Crawling can mean different kinds of progress. Some babies never really crawl at all – they develop rolling over to a point where they …
Broken nights and too little sleep are parents’ most common complaint. I am going to deal with some of the ways you might be able to prevent nighttime from becoming problem time in your household. The times at which we fall asleep and wake again have a lot to do with habit. Staying up late …
Everybody wakes in the night, as part of the normal cycles of deep and light sleep. Babies wake more than adults because they have more light sleep periods, and they can’t resettle themselves as we do. As your baby grows older, she’ll wake less but there’s nothing you or she can do to prevent awakenings. …
If a baby or child is to sleep happily alone, she obviously has to regard bed as a nice place to be. Bear that in mind from her earliest months and don’t ever leave her crying and trapped in her crib. There’s no better way to make her feel it’s a prison. As she gets …
