Keeping Children Safe - How to Prevent Choking and Suffocation Hazards

With Christmas around the corner, excitement fills the air. It might be easy to forget the added dangers that could fill your home at this time. Ornament hangers, tinsel, ribbon, etc. , while festive and pretty, can also be dangerous to toddlers. Read more to find out how to keep your child safe all through the year!

Hubbie Help: Simple Ways That A Husband Can Help A Pregnant Wife

Having a pregnant wife can be a stressful time for both the husband and the wife. The wife, though, bears the brunt of pregnancy's trials. A responsible husband should try his best to ease the burden off his spouse during this high-stress period.

A Working Mom's Guide to a Relaxing Evening

7 Reasons to be a Stay-at-Home Mom

Delightful Defrazzlers - for Mothers

With the crazy kinds of schedules that moms need to cope with today It's more important than ever to learn how to grab hold of moments to refresh, strengthen and nourish our souls and bodies.

Stress Relief for Stay-at-home Moms

While stay-at-home moms deserve a lot of respect, let's face it, spilled cheerios, dirty diapers, and screaming children can really get to someone after a while! Dealing with personal stress can be tricky, especially when 5 page "de-stress your life" lists end up stressing you out even more! While attempting to avoid another huge list, here are four simple suggestions that are not only doable, but will definitely help the stay-at-home mom feel a little saner!

Hold a Charitable Birthday Party for Your Child

As a parent, you probably know that the birthday party routine can be an almost painful experience. With about 20 children in your child's class, taking your child to more than one birthday party in one weekend can happen quite often. If you have more than one child, birthday-party weekends can take over your whole life. Finding the best gift takes hours, wrapping the gift and preparing the card is more time. When it is your child's turn for a birthday party, do you really want to put other parents through the same routine? Will your child really appreciate 20 birthday gifts on top of what you and your family have already given him? Does your child really need more toys?

Applause for Stay-at-home Moms

Stay-at-home moms are in need of some nurturing. We battle a social stereotype as lazy, uninteresting, and ineffectual. We worry that we are wasting our education and standing still amid a surge of feminist progress.

We have seen a lot of articles applauding mothers who go to work each day. Rarely do we see an article that celebrates those who stay-at-home. Here are just a few reminders of the ways your selflessness and sacrifices make a difference.

What to Do When Your Teen Chooses Bad Friends

Recently, a well known educator and speaker on parenting issues made a list of all the difficult questions parents had been asking him about their teens. He noticed that of all the issues that are bothering parents, the number one concern is what to do about bad friends. This question was mentioned more than twice as often as the next most common concern.

Are You Letting Your Children Manipulate You?

Rachael is the young mother of Nathan, who just turned two. Rachael is a stay-at-home mother who works part-time at home and has the help of a housekeeper five days a week. Rachael consulted with me because of her problems with Nathan.

When Nathan is with David (her husband), hes fine. He adores David and listens well to him. When hes with Amalia (her housekeeper), hes fine. He loves her and plays calmly with her. But when hes with me, hes impossible. He throws temper tantrums when he doesnt get his way. He goes to sleep easily at night for David but not for me. I want so much to be a good mother and I cant figure out what Im doing wrong. I never get angry with him but sometimes I feel like throwing him across the room! I need help!

You Want to be a Stay-At-Home Parent

The subject of stay-at-home parenting is touchy, and emotionally tangled up in a maelstrom of emotion, advertising, society pressure, culture demands, and personal beliefs. When you have a mixture of that many ingredients swirling around, the result is likely to be a mess unless both parents are in agreement.

Play Nice: Getting Toddlers to Share

All parents want their children to share and cooperate with others. Unfortunately, toddlers and preschoolers are just learning how to socialize and how to share, and sharing is a skill that takes time and practice. As a parent, you need to help them learn.

Tools for Parenting - Anger Management for Families (Part 2)

Can you remember a time when you were angry? How about a time when you were a child and you were angry? What did your parents or adults do when you were angry? Did they tell you to go to your room? Did they punish you for being angry? Did they talk to you about the problem without shaming or blaming you for your anger?

Five (and a half) Inevitable Steps on the Journey from Childhood to Adulthood

If we are to understand teenagers then it will be good for us to understand some of the journey that they take from childhood to adulthood the journey of adolescence. I dont intend this article to become a theoretical thesis on the journey but rather an overview of the types of issues young people face and some of the implications. My whole reason for writing this is to help people, help you, find a better way and how that impacts your relationships with others particularly young people.

The Most Important Role of Your Life!

Parenting, without a doubt, is the most important role anyone can play. Very few parents will challenge that statement. More often, the questions parents ask include: "What role do I play in my family?" or "How do I change my role if I don't like it?" Are you the hero? The sinister villain? Do you feel like you are just an "extra" in the movie of your own family?

Why Potty Training should be spelt R E L A X

As a child care provider I have spent more than my share of time potty training children. On average I begin child care when a child reaches 1 years old and graduates from their infant-only program. Inevitably that first year the questions begin about potty-training the life or death struggle that parents feel they must go through with their toddler.

How to Improve the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats

(ARA) - More than 63 percent of all child safety seats are improperly installed. Yet most parents are not negligent, they are simply unable to easily adjust the seats in the car.

How to Protect Your Child from Household Danger

(ARA) There are all sorts of hazards to children in a typical home. According to the National Safety Council, 51,500 deaths occurred in the home or community last year -- an even larger number than those killed in automobile accidents. Many of these deaths claim children yet are easily preventable. Baby proofing your home against hidden danger is one way to help reduce child-related accidents, and the results can be invaluable.

Tools for Parenting - Anger Management for Families (Part 1)

I was blessed with the opportunity to teach a class for my community on "What do you do with the mad that you feel?" This is a curriculum designed by Mister Rogers Neighborhood (the classic children's program). I know what your thinking.... Mr. Rogers? People like to make fun of him but have you ever seen him angry? I thought not.

The material is excellent and I included some of my personal anger management research and seminar notes from other talks to spice it up. The result was that the class went great!

The basic premise of the Anger Management for Families include:

Coping With Temper Tantrums

All parents with children have either experienced it or will experience it sooner than they think. Tantrums! Every parent has had those little humungous moments when their child screams, kicks, or even drops to the floor. You know what I'm talking about. This usually happens when a child is upset or angry and doesn't exactly know how to say so. You can help teach your child better ways to express these feelings as they get older.

Raising a Self-Sufficient Teen

Teens don't learn responsibility overnight. If you haven't been working with your teen on gradually giving them a sense of independence and ownership of their lives, then you're going to have your work cut out for you. Don't wait until it's too late.

VANISHED! WHAT YOU AND YOUR KIDS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHILD ABDUCTION

Help Your Kids Build a Better Body Image

Forty percent of 9-and 10-year-old females are trying to lose weight. Thats according to a national health study of nearly 2,400 girls.

Experts say its no coincidence that a girls academic performance sometimes begins to slide about the time she becomes more aware of her body.

The First Two Years of Life: Enthroning and Dethroning the Child

The first two years of life are the most important time for children, emotionally and developmentally. It is during this time that children form attachments with parents or caregivers. Attachment is a special tie between parent and child, laying the foundation for all of a child's future relationships and behaviors. A strong foundation will provide a stable base for healthy, productive relationships and behaviors. A weak foundation leads to broken children with unhealthy relationships and difficult behaviors.