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Time Out

Discipline your toddler using the method of time out. Get answers to your frequently asked questions about commonly used time out techniques.

4 Reasons Why Punishing Your Teen When You Are Angry Doesn't Work

Feeling angry is a normal response to poor and disrespectful behavior from your child or teen. You should allow yourself to feel your feelings, even if you are angry. You're human! Here are four reasons why punishing your teen when you are angry doesn't work.

Winnie the Pooh Nursery Theme for Your Infant's Room

If you've recently found out that you're pregnant then you're quickly coming to the realization that your life is going to change in many wonderful and unexpected ways. Your home needs to change as well ...

Military Appreciation Month

Did you know that May is National Military Appreciation Month?  Whether you like our foreign policy or not, it's important to support our troops. As the

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-Topic Overview

What is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?Sometimes a baby who seems healthy dies during sleep. This is called sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS. SIDS is also known as crib death. In most cases, a parent or caregiver puts the baby down to sleep and returns later to find the baby has died. It’s

Child Development - Elementary

As your child is growing and developing physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually, it's important for parents to recognize what stage in development their child is at. Parents who recognize the differences in the developmental growth stages that occur and changes are often able to s

Coping With Toddler Temper Tantrums - Find Out How Here

Somewhere between 2-4 years of age your little one will begin throwing fits of anger. Toddler temper tantrums can seem like they are never going to stop. Every time you turn around, something is setting your toddler off and they are screaming about this, throwing themselves on the ground in a fit. S

Safety in the Home Activities

Took your children the importance of safety precautions at home.safety image by anna karwowska from Fotolia.comKids need to know what to do in an emergency at home. Children are inundated with procedures to follow at school--get into a line, listen for a teacher's instructions and duck...

Baby Safety Products - Helpful Tips

Becoming a new parent is a time of excitement and anticipation, but it can also be a time of uncertainty as well. There is so much to do and think about in the months preceding your baby's arrival . Every new parent is concerned about the safety of their baby, and rightly so.

Creative Ways for Kids to Raise Money

Finding creative ways to help kids raise money for school activities or a sports team or for those in need is a fairly easy task. By allowing your child to participate in such fundraising activities you are teaching him a valuable lesson about helping others in his community. Look for ideas that are

Parents Worry About Home Security to Protect Their Children

Parents often take some important considerations when they decide where they are going to raise their children. Finding a good school district and a neighborhood that seems nice are often the two most important characteristics that parents think about when they purchase a home, but there are many ot

Assembly Instructions for a Graco Travel Bed

Graco is a well-known manufacturer that creates various products for infants and babies. One product in particular is the Pack 'N Play, which is a smaller version of the traditional playpen. The Pack 'N Play allows for easy traveling because it is small and folds into a compact size that is stored i

Baby Registry Etiquette

Baby registry is something that is done by a mom before a baby shower. It is done in order to avoid same and repeated gifts that could be useless for the baby. It is just a kind request made by the mother to ask her invited guests to get what is not in her list as a gift so that nothing goes waste a

Finances at the Dinner Table

I grew up in the era of parents discussing nothing with their children and everything was talked about behind the proverbial "closed doors." I lived never knowing what challenges my parents faced - what was causing the worried looks or the bursts of anger.

Do Children Really Learn From DVDs?

As the market for DVDs for young children continues to grow by the millions, parents and teachers remain in the dark at times about the merits of children learning with TV and DVD. Let us talk truth, sometimes painful truth, about just this!

Fostering Creativity in Children

"Matthew is such a prodigy - he's only seven, but he can already play Beethoven like a pro!" "I'm sending Sarah to ballet school. She's so talented I'm seeing a star in her." "My daughter is so creative! She can beat me anytime in answering crossword puzz

The Cho Factor - How Student and Teacher Bullying Leads to School Shootings

Now that a considerable amount of time has passed since Seung-Hui Cho's bloody assault at Virginia Tech in 2007, perhaps emotions have cooled off enough to make rational discourse possible. From Columbine to Virginia Tech, from the Holocaust to 9/11, from Saddam's gassing of the Kurds to t

How to Get My Child to Quit Swearing

You might have noticed that you child has begun using swear words, which he gets exposed to through various means. Although you might want to wash your child's mouth out with soap to punish swearing, "Parenting" magazine states that this action reinforces a negative behavior by using another negativ