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Getting your kids Interested in the kitchen can be fun for both you and your kids. It is a great learning experience for your kids in teaching them how to cook and in teaching other life skills. There are many different ways to get your kids involved from prepping to cooking to decorating and more. Allowing them this opportunity can help with them eating healthier and can encourage them to try different foods, simply because they helped you in fixing them. What are some ways that you can get Read more [...]

With four children under the age of six, I am always looking for opportunities to entertain the kids. Sure there are plenty of toys like Lego, trains and dolls, which are all great fun and of course have a place. But what I find lasts the longest and promotes cooperative play are those basic play opportunities, such as rolling down hills, finding snails or playing with boxes. Many of these activities are easy to organise or already naturally out there, just waiting to be experienced. Following Read more [...]

If you are seeking a very good present for a young baby think about giving footie pjs. Footed pajamas are undoubtedly one of the most practical presents you can give to a baby as well as to the baby's parents. Babies should probably be put to bed in footed pajamas. The reason is the high risk of SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome. This is thought to be one of the biggest killers of kids under the age of one. Most of the fatalities from SIDS are amongst babies between 2 and 4 months. There Read more [...]

Why You Are Unwittingly Feeding Your Children Badly There are a number of reasons why it's really hard to keep feeding your kids well, and we'll look at each of them briefly. Today we often eat on the run. This means that many parents are not even aware of what their children are eating. This obviously becomes more of a problem as the children get older, and a negative spin-off of this change is that there is now much less communication and bonding occurring, whereas mealtimes used to be a Read more [...]

Dealing with a picky eater? I am often asked by many frustrated Moms, "How do I get my little one to eat what the rest of the family is eating?" I ask my normal Mommy question, did they try the meal and not like it? Most times the answer is "No they just don't want it so I make them something else and my husband and I eat the planned meal." I find so many families are making several different meals every night not only does this make a long day even longer but it causes cranky times at dinner Read more [...]

Before I became a father, I was a son, a brother, and a nervous misguided child with no self esteem and no clue what life was all about. My father told me how big of a mess up I was and I soon came to believe him. My mother gave me love and encouragement and through her came the faith and belief that I was a good person with a good heart, and I was put on this Earth to do good things. My mother and her mother as well, had very strong standards and principles pertaining to loving each other and treating Read more [...]

Although the role of mothers has changed little over the years, the role of fathers has changed considerably, particularly over the past 150 years. During the second half of the nineteenth century, often referred to as the Victorian Era, the father was a very distant and rarely seen figure as far as children were concerned and his responsibility was largely confined to being the family's 'law giver'. This changed during the early part of the twentieth century, due in no small part to the influence Read more [...]

Do you believe that the majority of emotional, mental and relationship problems that people deal with in adult life originate from childhood events? (Emotional wounds, patterns and conditionings in our behavior) The best way to solve many of the problems of adults is to bring up children in a more healthy way, so we don't have the problems in the first place. As a child we are like beautiful, fragile vases and when dropped; break. Yes, the vase can be glued back together but it will never be Read more [...]

During the seventies a brand new catch-phrase had been thrown concerning in the us: "Quality Period.inches With all the large adjustments to your National family members and also monetary living, mom and dad got a shorter period to pay using their little ones. Thus, so that you can make an effort to shine around this particular decline, thinking about "quality time" premiered. Though it may be safer to spend an afternoon within good exercise together with your little one instead of devote little Read more [...]

The start of school is usually a bitter-sweet time for parents. Summer is coming to an end, as is the extra time we get to spend with our children. Along with this sadness, most parents sigh a collective sigh of relief to watch the youngsters go back to school. My time as director of an intensive adolescent substance abuse treatment center taught me that this is also the time of year young people start their experimentation with drug use - sometimes leading to full-blown dependence by the next semester, Read more [...]