Parenting Resources, Child Development and More

One thing I find very interesting as a parent is how kids deal with things that they feel are unfair. I found that when they don’t believe the situation is fair, all rules go out the window. The fairness becomes the focus not the unacceptable behavior. Let me give you an example. I have firm rules about the time and the length of time the kids can play video games.  Sometimes the length of time gets bumped due to the time they must be finished. My 11-year old cannot abide this hierarchy... Read Full Story

“Since what others may do to us is not in our power to change, we need only concern ourselves with what we do to ourselves . . . for this is in our power.” There is always a moment before a problem starts with another human being where we realize that what we want is not going to happen. Ordinarily we'll say the other person is about to "ruin my day." But there is, for those of us who want to Read Full Story

There are a series of diet regimen which have been suggested routinely for children with developmental difficulties such as Failure To Thrive. The Casein Free and Feingold Diets are among the front-runners for this field. Modifying The Paradigm I want to applaud the developers of these diets for changing the paradigm about what might be the root of the world-wide increase in the numbers of developmental problems for children. For a long time our modern medical practitioners could not... Read Full Story

Failure To Thrive is a interruption in normal physical development which might be the precursor to delays in the normal developmental process and maturation. Failure To Thrive is a diagnosis given to infants who are consistently underweight or who do not show weight gain for unclear reasons. There could be many causes. Many causes involve social and environmental factors which work together to keep the infant from having the nutrition the infant needs. Often, medical issues prevent a infant... Read Full Story

Many years ago while I was in school, I had the chance to co-lead a preschool language stimulation class. It was a lot of hard work, and it taxed my brain to come up with fun and creative ways to stimulate minds and provide language enrichment experiences for 8 or 9 youngsters every single day. Some young children are a bit slower than others in picking up language and they require some extra attention to both language expression and comprehension to do well once they enter school. However... Read Full Story

Women are charged more for dry cleaning services. Don’t fume, find a better way. While it is true that the practice is unfair it is also true that we have options for keeping our clothes clean and holding onto more of our cash. Try some of these tactics to stem or stop the unfair flow of your dry cleaning dollars. • Examine labels before you make a clothing purchase. Go for easy care (read machine washable) items whenever possible. • Determine if dry cleaning is a suggestion or a mandate... Read Full Story

Just a simple glance at the pair of lovely eyes your child has will give you a thousand reasons to live. That said, you may want to ensure that he in return is given only the best care possible. Thus you surely want to be with him at all times. But things don’t work like this; you will undoubtedly have to spend time away from your house to work. To make ensure the well being of your child, you will have to look for a reliable childcare center that will watch out for your kid while you are... Read Full Story

Last Friday, my old schoolfriend Sarada left her husband and three kids (temporarily) to paint Reading town red with me. I’ve had a few ‘mum’s nights out’ in my time and they are usually sweet but rather insipid affairs involving a meal, the cinema, a few glasses of wine and some pleasantries about our kids, our shoes and our weight.  Nice - but a little restrained for my tastes. Still, it’s hard to find other mums who share my penchant for getting on down to techno, trance, hip hop and drum... Read Full Story

New Pledge of Allegiance (TOTALLY AWESOME) ! Since the Pledge of Allegiance And The Lord’s Prayer   Are not allowed in most Public schools anymore   Because the word ‘God’ is meioned…. A kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer : Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule For this great nation under God Finds mention of Him very odd. If Scripture now the class recites, It violates the Bill of Rights. And anytime my head I bow... Read Full Story

I wasn't surprised to read about the Nebraska father who had dropped off his nine children, - abandoning them - at a local hospital due to overwhelming stress and his inability to care for them any longer . What parent wouldn't be stressed with nine kids, let alone a man who was somehow trying to do it on his own, after the death of his wife. Talk about emotional overload. What did shock me, however, was the "backlash" that officials have now created with their insistence that now the laws... Read Full Story