Children are not born rebels, it is we who provoke them. You tell your child that it is not a good thing to shout, and she screams at you. The more you tell your child to interact with guests, the more he avoids them and prefers to spend time in his room. And if there are several such instances that …
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Disciplining Your Three Year Old
Sometimes it feels that children below the age of three years are at a stage where parents are in danger of using up ALL their reserves of patience at one go! A child’s initial growing years are some of the best years in a parent’s life. However, it is at this time when the disciplining starts. And there is an …
Read More »Does Your Child Say ‘No’ To Food?
Come mealtime and a picture of an ensuing battle – getting your child to eat – invariably flashes past your eyes. All your efforts to make healthy food choices for your child meet with resistance, as there is no help from their end. This is a familiar story I am sure. Food negativism is a problem of defiance by the …
Read More »Extended Family Relationships
Most families visit their parents and in-laws during annual vacations but there are only few families, who know how to have fun with in-laws and have a loving atmosphere when all extended family members meet together during holiday time. Extended family relationships need to be nurtured too. Planning ahead for family and social events, saving money for buying gifts from …
Read More »Food Pyramid
So you want to ensure that your family follows the right diet. But you don’t know how to begin and with what types of foods. How about following the Food Pyramid guidelines? The Food Pyramid is an outline of what to eat each day based on some dietary guidelines. Far from being a rigid prescription it’s a general guide that …
Read More »Don’t Transfer Your Anxieties About School Interviews On To Children
When it comes to getting children admitted to formal schools, most parents take it very seriously. Rightly so, because the school in which the child will study for the next 14 years will play a very important role in defining the child’s personality and life-path. No wonder, we feel anxious about how our child will perform in the interview. Sometimes, …
Read More »Don’t Set Up Tests of Trust
Trusting children seems to be a significant factor in building their self-esteem. Children sense when you are testing them. A test of trust proves there is little or no trust. Rather be confident that mutual trusting, which in extended process, will grow naturally as your knowledge of each other grows. Trust-growth happens most naturally when you and the child are …
Read More »Encourage Children To Talk To Other Adults
It is sometimes helpful to redirect children with high emotions to a third person. Children’s self-Esteem can be strongly threatened when they must deal directly with the people with whom they are highly emotionally involved. Parents are often unable to view their own children objectively. This realization became clear to me when I taught first grade and had my daughter …
Read More »Don’t Burden Your Child with Over-Expectation
“We will not accept anything less than 85% from you in the finals”… “You’ve been learning for 2 years, why didn’t you win the first prize?”… “We want you to become a doctor, you’d better get good marks in science”… “I can’t believe you forgot your lines on the stage. It was so embarrassing for us.”… How many times have …
Read More »Food Fads
Between two and five years, many children develop all kinds of food fads for many of which the parents themselves may be responsible. Very often the mother thinks that a particular food is good for the child and she insists on the child having it. The child becomes equally adamant and refuses to eat whenever forced to do so. Not …
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