Posts Tagged ‘parent’
How to Support your Child’s Learning?
Being engaged in your child’s learning is one of the most important things you can do to help them achieve. Parent engagement in learning starts from early childhood and continues as children move through school and beyond. With your support, your child can thrive in their learning. You are your child’s first teacher and how…
Read MoreParents and Anger: What You Need to Know?
Every parent feels angry sometimes – anger is a normal human emotion, and it is normal to feel angry when you are a parent. But if you get angry a lot or you have trouble controlling yourself when you are angry, it is good to have some anger management techniques ready to go. Anger can…
Read MoreTeenage Friends and Friendships
As your child enters the teenage years, friends will become more important. Positive, accepting and supportive friendships are an important part of the journey to adulthood for your child. They can help teenagers learn important social and emotional skills, like being sensitive to other people’s feelings, thoughts, and wellbeing. Even teenagers might be focused on…
Read MoreGay, Lesbian or Bisexual Young People
For children and parents, the teenage can bring lots of change. Changes in the brain and hormones bring about many physical, sexual and emotional changes. While dealing with relationships and sexuality young people are working out who they are. Working out their feelings towards others and whether they are gay, lesbian or bisexual might be…
Read MoreHelping Your Child with Mental Health Problems
When a child or adolescent has a mental health problem it can affect the whole family, because they usually have difficulty controlling their behavior, thinking or emotions. Mental health problems in children can be expressed through angry, disruptive or hyperactive behavior or through withdrawal, worry, and emotional responses. Hyperactive behavior can be described like very…
Read MoreParent Abuse
Most parents and young people arguments, disagree or have a conflict at times. However, it is more than conflict, if a young person is abusive or violent. It is an attempt to control and have power over parent or others in the home. It can happen in families of any religion, culture or situation in…
Read MoreMeditation – A Parent's Guide
Parenting would be easy if kids came with manuals, and they behaved according to those manuals. But, they don’t. Kids are curious, uninhibited, creative, eager, unpredictable, energetic, loving and they are learning in very short time absolutely astounding amounts of things. Meditation can help through all stages of parenting, from pre-conception to… well, the job…
Read MoreParent-Child Interaction
Parents guide and support their children. They teach them and they lead them. They do all this by what they do and say. Your child is busy learning about the world and needs you as a personal protector, supporter, and guide. What we expect from our children is what we will get, we have known…
Read MoreChild Discipline
Child discipline is the methods used to prevent future behavioral problems in children. The word discipline is defined as imparting skill and knowledge, in other words, to teach. In its most general sense, discipline refers to systematic instruction given to a disciple and means to instruct a person to follow a particular code of conduct.…
Read MoreBeing a parent – ”Easy” Guide
A role that can bring you happiness and great joy as well as challenges to deal with is being a parent. Watching your child grow your child and nurturing them and develop into their own unique person can add purpose and meaning to your life. Looking after yourself, so you can be your best for…
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