Best Parents

Kids today live a very different life than we did a few short years ago. They spent more time inside than ever before playing video games and watching television. Even their play time is structured with organized sports and play dates. What ever happened to just exploring the world? Well, we all know what happened. The world they should be exploring got more dangerous than it was back in our day. Not to mention the fact that more families have both parents working so there is no one home to supervise Read more [...]

Effective parenting and a warm home is possible only with help of a mother. Living in an advanced and developing scenario, mothers have become helpless and are forced to challenge the competing life style. Here are ten tips that would help to shape up and get back to a fine stream of parenting, becoming a good mother. 1. Love based relationship A perfect family should be bound with love. It acts as a bridge among family members, and mother holds a primary responsibility in showing love. This Read more [...]

Most children are reluctant to go to school at some time or other, but if your child is constantly unhappy about going to school you need to do something to change the situation. First, let's look at some of the reasons children do not want to go to school - * Is your child being bullied? How would you know? * Has there been changes in the family that are causing your child to be concerned? * Is your child depressed?* Has there been a falling out amongst friends? * Is the work too Read more [...]

Assume that your child went to regular school and every day the teacher asks you to help him a bit with his homework for quick progress. For you it will not make much effort because you went to school too in your childhood. So if your talented child has started taking music lessons, isn't there a need for music education for parents too? I've been teaching at music school for many years, and I am always apprehensive of parents who bring their children to music school but have no intention to understand Read more [...]

If I had a dollar for every time I heard these words -- "I wasn't good in math either" -- I could have retired long ago. Over the course of thirty-three years of teaching and tutoring there were many parent-teacher conferences, meetings with parents after report cards were distributed, and many tutor interviews. And one thing that seemed to be consistent was this need on the part of the parents to tell me that they, too, had struggled with math. But the statement "I wasn't good in math either" always Read more [...]

While raising a boy, you might discover that he will have a hard time concentrating in school. There are several reasons for this mind wandering. Some of it is simply his attention span. He is not yet disciplined enough to keep focused on that test when there are friends to talk with and messing around to do. This does not in itself mean that he is ADD or the like. It could just mean that he is a boy. He also may be intimidated with his new schoolwork. In those middle grades, the more playful Read more [...]

Stress though widely accepted as a curse of modern living has a major impact on fertility in both men and women. In technical terms when you are highly stressed the communication between your brain and parts of your reproductive system (fallopian tubes and uterus) is disrupted causing your ovulation process to be blocked. Men can find the quality and production of their sperm affected often leading to impotence. In plainer English terms STRESS can and will make you infertile. When a couple Read more [...]

Recently, I was watching a manager explain a concept to a fellow employee. However, my fellow employee did not understand the idea he was trying to explain. Quickly, I pulled my manager aside. He scribbled some information on a dry erase board. Soon the light bulb went off. My fellow employee knew exactly what our manager was saying. Many people are visual learners, especially children. Multiple studies have concluded that students and adults who study, according to their own personal preferences, Read more [...]

The new born babies find themselves in an alien world. The baby misses all the comfort and warmth it is provided with, in the womb of the mother. The world is a new environment that it has to acquaint itself with. This is one of the reasons why, earlier people used to prepare soft and smooth swaddle blankets for the infants. The newborns find comfort in the swaddle, almost feeling the same warmth and safety as it felt in its mother's womb and can sleep well. Comfort and sound sleep is very important Read more [...]

Teaching our children responsibility is in my opinion, an absolute requirement of sound parenting. Failure to teach them this valuable lesson is to do them a disservice because once they are out of their parents' homes and on their own they will need those skills to survive and thrive in the outside world. Despite this fact, I see parents who continually pick up behind their kids and clean up their messes, whether physical or social, and never blink while doing so. All too often, these children are Read more [...]