Teenager from Mexico Forcibly Removed and Returned A 14-year-old girl, Alondra Luna Nunez, was taken from her middle school in Mexico by Mexican Federal Police and taken to Texas. In Texas Dorotea Garcia awaited, she had claimed the girl was her daughter and had been kidnapped by her father. In 2007 The Foreign Ministry had […]
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Stages Of An Overdue Pregnancy Even though a pregnant expectant mother has the due date imprinted in her mind, and on every single calendar, she still knows that this is just an estimated date of arrival. This date toward the end starts to linger more and more as the days get closer to the time […]
Cutting Self-Injury Out Of Child’s Habits You may have heard of it, seen it or experienced it – cutting and self-harm. While it may be one’s method for coping it is also probably a horror story to parents who do their best to be attentive and loving towards their children. The New York Times Parenting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]