Pope Francis encourages mothers to breastfeed in Sistine Chapel
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis has encouraged women attending a ceremony in the Sistine Chapel to feel free to breastfeed their children in the church. “The ceremony is a little […]
This Is the Number One Mistake Parents Make When Arguing With Kids
Time: How do you deal with out of control kids? The authors of the bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk have some […]
10 ways your THINKING is causing you Parental ANGER
Parental Stress Centre: by Jackie Hall — “IT IS NEVER THE EVENTS THAT CAUSE STRESS, IT’S HOW WE PERCEIVE THOSE EVENTS AND WHAT WE PERCEIVE THEM TO MEAN ABOUT OURSELVES.” Often we blame the things going on around us for feeling stressed or angry – it’s the child’s behaviour, it’s […]
How We’re Endangering our Kids’ Imaginations
Source: Time By Melissa Bernstein Melissa Bernstein is a co-founder of Melissa & Doug and is leading a movement to Take Back Childhood I refuse to sit back and watch this […]
Infants should share parents’ room for 1st year, report finds
Source: USA Today Infants should sleep in the same room as parents to lower the risk of sleep-related deaths, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a policy statement released […]
Here Is How to Decide How Much Screen Time to Give Kids
Source: Time By Belinda Luscombe An editor-at-large of TIME The good news is that the American Academy of Pediatrics has finallyupdated its recommendations on how much time kids should spend on […]
Why It’s So Hard to Ignore a Baby’s Cry, According to Science
Source: Time By Jordan Raine, University of Sussex / The Conversation Have you ever been sat on a flight with a crying baby in your vicinity, wondering more and more with […]
Son had 36 bruises. Mom quoted the Bible as defense.
Source: THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR By Vic Ryckaert An Indianapolis woman who beat her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger is citing Indiana’s religious freedom law as a defense against felony child abuse charges, saying her choice of discipline comes straight from her evangelical Christian beliefs. The woman quoted biblical Scripture in court documents. She said that […]
Nine families raised children who all went on to extraordinary success. Here’s what they have in common
Source: Time By Charlotte Alter Every night for 20 years, Gino Rodriguez knelt beside his three daughters’ beds and whispered an incantation. As rats the size of footballs skittered along […]
The path to happiness for millennial men is … kids
Source: CNN By Kelly Wallace, CNN (CNN)If you are a millennial man and looking for happiness, you might want to think about becoming a dad. Just in time for Father’s […]
How Obama’s Presidency Has Been A Victory For Working Parents
Source: Huffington Post Mollie Reilly Deputy Politics Editor, The Huffington Post As President Barack Obama approaches the end of his second term, there’s been much discussion of what his legacy […]
Parenting Is Now Officially Impossible
Source: Time By Darlena Cunha Darlena Cunha is a contributor to TIME. The Internet has all but extinguished any hope parents ever had It’s impossible to be a parent in 2016. […]
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Source: Wall Street Journal By Amy Chua, who is a professor at Yale Law School and author of “Day of Empire” and “World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds […]
How Your Mom Makes You Happier, According To Science
Source: Huffington Post Lindsay Holmes Deputy Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post The ways our moms and mother figures add to our lives is immeasurable — but perhaps arguably one […]
Becoming a parent is the greatest identity change we go through
theguardian: by Tim Lott — If identity is about how power plays out inside us, then having children is the profoundest transformation a human being can experience Becoming a parent tends to be invisible in certain narrow sociological terms … a family walk (posed by models). Photograph: OJO Images/Rex Features […]
4 Rules Every Mother-In-Law Needs To Know
Source: Huffington Post By Debbie Slevin Author, theatrical producer/director, teacher, wife, mother, GRANDMOTHER! Inquisitive mind, tenacious reporter, emotional softie. I would like to think I am a pretty good mother-in-law. My two married sons think so. As do their wives. But I didn’t get to this place easily. There aren’t any […]
A warm positive environment can outweigh problem genes
Is misbehaviour encoded in your child’s DNA? We hear about it in the media, claims that some kids are born with genes that put them at higher risk for impulsive, […]
Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds
Young children who are exposed to religion have a hard time differentiating between fact and fiction, according to a new study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science. READ MORE…
Some Parents Want Their Child to Redeem Their Broken Dreams
Source: Science Daily Some parents desire for their children to fulfill their own unrealized ambitions, just as psychologists have long theorized, according to a new first-of-its-kind study. Researchers found the more that parents see their child as part of themselves, the more likely they are to want their child to […]
The four big influences on our children
By Kristen and Mark Bishop, Special to Gulf News Published: 21:30 July 28, 2012 Teachers Children never forget. Great educators can prevent a child from being emotionally dependent and motivate that child to achieve and thrive. Once children reach school age, they start spending more time with their teachers than […]