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// 11.22.2006 at 5:49 pm // Have your say »

5 Easy Steps to Teaching Your Child a Second Language

Teaching a child a second language can be an immensely rewarding experience, and can open their young minds to a whole new world of sights and sounds. Even if you’re not entirely fluent in another tongue, here are five simple ways you can help your child learn to speak a second language confidently and easily.
1. […]

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// 11.21.2006 at 5:48 pm // Have your say »

How To Communicate With the Doctor When Your Child is Sick

When your child is sick or injured, every protective, nurturing feeling you have as a parent comes rushing forward. It’s difficult to think about anything except your child, and doing whatever you can to relieve their suffering – right NOW!
Getting quality medical care, without feeling like you’re a number or the next piece on the […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 1:19 am // Have your say »

5 Tips for Raising Great Kids

If you are lucky enough to have a little one or more, you may be wondering, at times, how to best care for him. Have you ever read out loud while pregnant? Do you hug your little one often? Do you talk to her?
Here are 5 tips that will help your little ones thrive.
1. Be […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 1:16 am // Have your say »

Comforting Children with Nightmares and Night Terrors

Nightmares and Night Terrors are some of the most unsettling situations for parents as they are generally awakened by their child’s terrified screams and crying. To parents in the dead of night, it probably doesn’t matter whether it is a nightmare or a night terror, since their only concern is for their child’s welfare. In […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 1:13 am // Have your say »

How to Calm a Crying Baby

Crying is a completely normal part of being a baby. Crying is the only way that a baby has to communicate needs and wants with you. Crying is your baby’s way of telling you that they are upset, and they need you.
When a baby cries, she may be trying to tell you any number of […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 1:10 am // Have your say »

Helping Your Aggresive Toddler

It is such a joy for parents to see their once helpless baby learning new skills as they grow to be toddlers. Milestones such as a baby’s first word or first step are things that parents look forward to. However, often accompanying that joy are worry, confusion and frustration especially when toddlers enter into what […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 12:57 am // Have your say »

Keeping Melt Downs at Bay with Your Preschooler

Ask anyone that lives with a preschooler and they will tell you that kids melt down. Children between the ages of three and five have the unique ability to be happy and jovial one minute and on the floor screaming the next. For parents this can be difficult to deal with.
It is often tempting to […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 12:50 am // Have your say »

Massage Therapy for Infants and Babies

You’ve probably heard about how effective massage therapy for infants and babies is by now, but you probably don’t know why it is considered so beneficial. Well, although massage therapy has been practiced for a long time, the general public has only recently started to open their minds and hearts to this technique in recent […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 12:47 am // Have your say »

Five Tips for Becoming a Step-Parent

It is challenging enough to commit to a life partner, but more so if you are becoming a step-parent for the first time.
About 46% of marriages are now ending in divorce and two thirds of remarriages involve children from prior marriages. So it is probable that if you are single and childless, your future […]

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// 11.06.2006 at 12:44 am // 1 Comment »

Praise Descriptively to Increase Your Children’s Self Esteem

As a parent, I’m sure you want to see your children grow up happy, confident and with high self esteem. Many child related professionals will tell you that to accomplish this you need to shower your children with praise. Unfortunately, the natural praises you sing are usually evaluative and don’t always uplift your children as […]

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