Coping With Divorce-Supporting Your Kids In Dr. Phil’s book, Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, he lists the most important needs of children while their parents are going through a divorce. Dr Phil advises: Your overall goal should be to meet all of these needs, in order to minimize the price your child […]
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Alternate To Not Talking To Strangers I don’t teach my children to avoid talking to strangers. Shocking, I know. I live in LA and New York City, walk everywhere with my kids, and I love meeting new people so we talk to strangers all the time. Secondly, I think that most of the advice on teaching […]
A Guide Choosing A Car Seat Unless you are only a walk away from the hospital, new parents need a car seat from day one (it’s required to leave the hospital—even if you’re taking a taxi). All 50 states require car child restraints, usually until the child is at least 7 years old and over […]
Children’s Online Safety Recently, there have been new threats to parents and children over the internet known as “cyber kidnapping”, a direct threat to online safety. It occurs when someone takes an image of someone else’s child on a social media website and posts it as if the child is their own. There was a […]
Keeping Calm And Gaining Control Mothers all go through the same thing with their children at different stages of their life. There comes a time when to be the parent and when to have fun with your little one. Sometimes it means we have to be strict, firm and not lose our cool by […]
Free Range Parenting Causes Another Investigation You may have heard of the Meitiv family which was placed under investigation by Child Protective Services after letting their children walk home alone from the park, part of the free range parenting movement. Parents Alexander and Danielle Meitiv decided to let their 10 year old son and […]
How Much Is Too Much TV? As a parent, are you concerned with your kids watching too much TV? Do you often wonder if your child should even be watching TV, due to being so young? Although some screen time is beneficial because it’s educational, but some of us go overboard with too much […]
Child Dropped Into Cheetah Exhibit A mother of a two-year-old boy is being charged with a misdemeanor for child endangerment in Cleveland, Ohio. On Saturday April 11, 2015 Michelle Schwab dropped her son into a cheetah exhibit at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. According to WKYC news Schwab is the assistant director at the Sawmill Road KinderCare […]
Breaking Gender Roles: Stay At Home Dads There’s a new trend and it’s being one of the many rising stay at home dads. Instead of mommy taking care of the children, making meals and changing diapers, daddy’s deciding to assume all of her responsibilities and lastly, hand his title of “breadwinner” over to his […]
Doctor Announces Cause of SIDS Breakthrough For years parents of newborn children have stood outside their babies crib in fear, listening for the telltale sound of their child breathing. SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is the reason for the tragic death of 3,500 babies each year in the U.S. who inexplicably die while sleeping. […]
Save Time & Money With Laundry Hacks Laundry Hack 1 The first key to reducing the time and cost it takes to do laundry is to not launder clothes that don’t actually need to be washed yet. Here are some great guidelines from the website The Art Of Manliness: “You don’t have to wash everything […]