Category: Child Discipline
Battling Early Tooth Decay
We have seen significant advances in oral health in recent years. People are keeping their natural teeth longer, they are enjoying the benefits of more accessible dental care and a wide variety of dental products on the market help to have a healthy mouth. However, early childhood tooth decay, a …
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What If Everybody Understood Child Development?
When writing my Huffington Post piece on children and gun play, I found myself wondering what would happen if everyone understood child development. What changes would come about in education? How much healthier would children’s lives be if this unique period of their lives was fully understood? Since then, here are a few …
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On Average, Children Take the First Steps on their Own at the Age of 12 Months – Child Development Varies and Is Hard to Predict, Study Finds
On average, children take the first steps on their own at the age of 12 months. Many parents perceive this event as a decisive turning point. However, the timing is really of no consequence. Children who start walking early turn out later to be neither more intelligent nor more well-coordinated. …
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Busy Parents and Teens Should Make Family Dinners a Priority
Question: Is it true that research now shows that teenagers who eat dinner more often with their families are less likely to drink, smoke cigarettes or use other drugs? Answer: A recent study compared two specific groups: teenagers who have two or fewer family dinners per week and those who …
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Healthy Kids: Positive Parenting – Making an Effort to Share a Positive Viewpoint with your Children
Over the past few decades, many parenting techniques have gone in and out of style. Helicopter parents, tiger moms, attachment parenting — there are more styles with creative names than we can imagine. However, one style of parenting that has remained a constant is positive parenting — making an effort …
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Screaming Kid? It’s Everyone’s Problem to Fix
- Kids need old-fashioned discipline – Society needs to take collaborative approach to raising children – Research proves parenting styles not important When Sydney’s Dee Why Grand shopping centre announced its ban on screaming kids this week it became part of a global problem that’s desperately in need of a …
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UK Toddlers Are the Most Likely in Europe to Refuse Food – Tips to Tackle Fussy Eating
New research has found young fussy eaters are frustrating their parents by wasting huge amounts of food. Reporter Jo Davies looks at the best ways to stop poor eating. With food prices sky-high, young fussy eaters are costing the nation’s families a fortune. New Mumsnet research shows 86 per cent …
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New Insight on Relationship Between Parents, Preschoolers and Obesity
While sugary drinks, lack of exercise and genetics contribute to a growing number of overweight American children, new research from Washington State University reveals how a mom’s eating habits and behavior at the dinner table can influence her preschooler’s obesity risk. The findings come from WSU alumna Halley Morrison’s undergraduate …
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The New Parenting Buzzword? (Hint: Not ‘Self-Esteem’)
You just wrapped your head around how to implement the findings of that famous Stanford University marshmallow experiment. If those four-year-olds who could delay gratification and wait to eat their marshmallow tended to be more successful, then you can easily add, “You’ll just have to wait, honey,” to your lexicon …
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What Every Parent Should Know About Social Media
A mother’s picture of her partner in his underpants was among the items carelessly made public over social media in a BBC investigation of parents and teenagers online for Safer Internet Day. I consider myself quite canny about using social media without invading my own privacy. But there have been …
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