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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.
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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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// 11.02.2006 at 3:10 am // Have your say »

Six Ideas to Help You Discipline Your Kid

Got a kid? Love him or her? Of course you do. So when he or she misbehaves on a consistent basis, what’s the best way to administer discipline?
Well, as you may be aware, there is a wide range of thought on this subject. One school of thought teaches essentially hand’s off, and says, the little […]

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// 10.13.2006 at 6:37 am // Have your say »

How to Stop Over-Programming Your Toddler

In the fast pace of today’s lifestyle, many families are having difficulty finding time to eat meals together or even wake up and spend a Saturday morning with each other. Parents are working, children are in pre-school and extra curricular activities are scheduled almost daily…
Gymnastics on Monday and Wednesday, soccer on Tuesday, dance on Thursday […]

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// 08.02.2006 at 1:21 pm // Have your say »

Where Have All the Manners Gone?

What? Huh? Move! Gimme a …, Hey can I …? Where oh where have all the manners gone? What ever happened to: Pardon me? I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you. Excuse me please. May I have? Those phrases are almost extinct for children today. You may still occasionally hear those words from adults aged 40 […]

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