Parenting Tips That Guide Children to Behave
Parenting Tips That Guide Children to Behave With great parenting tips, effective discipline has much more to do with communication than control. Many parents feel that to control their children is to be a good parent. However, studies have shown that parenting that...
Birth Order
How Birth Order Affects Your Child's Personality Development Think about your birth order in your family of origin. Were you an oldest? Middle? Youngest? Only? Your birth order has a significant impact on the development of your personality. In this four minute Pep...
Creating Meaningful Bonds With Your Little Ones While at Home
Every parent knows how important it is to start forming meaningful bonds at home with their children as early as possible. But it can be difficult to find ways to do so when you're dealing with everything else that's going on. For parents having to deal with their...
Create Cooperation
Create Cooperation As I was looking for a blog to help parents create cooperation, I found this gem in the archives. During the pandemic, and with kids at home, it's been a challenge. Please enjoy it, it was a found memory for me as well. This question was taken...
5 Creative Ideas for Offering Choices
Offering choices to your children is helpful in so many ways. You can get out of and prevent power struggles by offering choices. Giving choices can make learning something new fun. And giving choices helps create cooperative kids. The reason for this is that when...
What Do You Mean NO?
What Do You Mean NO? "NO! I Won’t Pick It Up!" "NO! I Don’t Want To Eat That!" "NO! You Can’t Make Me Do It!" "NO, NO, NO! What Do You Mean NO? This one word probably causes more stress and disharmony in our relationship with our children than any other word in our...
Teens Headed for Trouble: Turning it Around
by Ruth Angaran, M.Ed. (A note from the author: "Teens Headed for Trouble: Turning it Around", came from a response to a mom in cyberspace facing this exact situation with her teenage daughter. Hence I have used "she" throughout the article for clarity and...
Teenage Developmental Stages
Teenage Developmental Stages Understanding teenage developmental stages is a must for your sanity. When you have insight into the most difficult and annoying teenage developmental stages, you will have much more patience. And understanding about what to do with...