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 […]
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The Top 7 Signs That Your Kids May Be Lying Kids Lying: Their Body Language And Words Don’t Match. It’s usually not too hard to tell when a small child is lying. Older kids and teens can be more difficult to read. But when a person is trying to lie, they control their facial expressions […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blending your family isn’t always easy. When it comes to bonding child with step-parents it might be a bit tough too. Depending on the age of the child, they could be not accepting of a new parent in their life. Another thing to consider is how the child’s natural parent feels, and whether they may […]
Does Your Toddler Head Bump? Do you ever notice your child bumping their head on their crib right before they go to sleep and then once they exhaust themselves, they pass right out? Twenty- percent of babies and toddlers bang their head on purpose, with boys being three times more likely to do so than […]