Here are the Do’s and Don’ts Foster parenting can easily qualify as one of the most arduous tasks in the world. It calls for nurturing, commitment, and dedication, and when it gets over, sometimes it also takes strength and resilience. Resilience to survive the heartbreak when the foster child leaves and strength to say yes […]
6 Solid Reasons to Stop Being Narcissistic Parents
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach” — W.E.B. DuBois. Well, each and every parent will definitely agree with this. In fact, a lot of things contribute to developing a child’s personality, out of which the relationship the child shares with the parents is of primary importance. So, what happens when […]
Why Helicopter Parenting is a Bad Idea?
“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So, just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins Parenting is probably the most challenging job on this planet. There are no markers, definitions, or scales that help you become a good parent. Since every child is different, every parent has to be different to achieve […]
Top 5 Reasons Childcare Practitioners Leave The Child Care Profession
Childcare is an extremely demanding career, but it can be very rewarding; however, more and more childcare professionals are leaving the childcare industry. Here are the top 5 reasons why childcare practitioners leave the childcare industry. The Long working hours A lot of day nurseries are open for around 10 hours a day and with […]
Benefits of Attending Parenting Classes
Are parenting classes worth the time and money? Get Effective Parenting Skills Online The new and only slightly familiar world of parenthood can be understandably quite daunting for first-time parents. Even with the knowledge and experience from your own childhood years and how you were parented by your primary caregivers, raising your children is an […]
Therapeutic Parenting – A Nurturing Solution for Children with Trauma
Therapeutic parenting strategies are a unique style of parenting that applies to families where children have a history of childhood trauma. This parenting is usually taught to foster or adopting parents who are going to care for children coming from broken homes. Read on to learn more about therapeutic parenting and understand how it helps […]
Attachment Parenting – 8 Steps to Bringing Up Well-Rounded Children
Times have changed, and so has parenting. We have now arrived at a time where it’s getting difficult to find the balance between love and discipline. Of course, the days of ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ are long gone. But hasn’t it become awfully tricky nowadays to teach your kids the right values […]
A Parents Guide To Internet Safety For Kids
When I was a child, the Internet did not exist, but now internet safety for kids is essential and very important to get right. The Internet can be both an enjoyable and a dangerous place. Nowadays, there is practically no escaping it (unless you decide to become a hermit). Everyone has a smartphone, a tablet, […]
The Perfect Gifts For 5 Year Olds
Finding perfect gifts for 5 year olds, whether your own child, a niece, nephew, or maybe a classmate of your daughter, can be challenging. Especially now, when there are so many options – from books, to clothes, to video games, to toys, looking for the right gift can be overwhelming. Looking for the perfect gifts […]
Are You A Helicopter Parent?
Is being a helicopter parent a good thing? Helicopter parent was a term that is said to be first used by Dr Haim Ginott’s 1969 book Parents & Teenagers by teens which described parents that would hover about them like a helicopter. This term became so popular that in 2011 it made it into the dictionary. Helicopter […]