Celebrating your child’s first birthday requires a lot of planning. Make sure not to have a huge guest list as you definitely do not want to overcrowd your child’s first birthday party with dozens of guests. These moments are precious and only family members and a few close friends should be invited to share them….
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Dealing with other parents
The formative childhood years can be a turbulent time for any parent, no matter how experienced in child rearing they may be. However, just as you thought it couldn’t get any worse, other kids’ parents come in to play. Often sticking in clique-like groups, other parents can be exclusive and unfriendly to those not of…
Create a Literate Child
Everyone wants their child to be smart, to do well in exams, speak well and write well but a lot of parents do not give their children the tools to have these attributes. Many parents believe that teachers and schools can and should do everything to prepare a child for the world. In some cases,…
Children and Pets
There is hardly a child that doesn’t love to spend time watching fish swimming in their tank or the birds in their nest. Pets, especially dogs are best and most loyal friends that your child can ever have. Studies conducted for several years reveal that kids with pets are better at handling stress. Pets, often…
Kids and Pets – The Perfect Way to Grow Up
Pets are nonjudgmental and kids love to snuggle up to them and make their first efforts to show off their new skills like reading. Apart from that, children learn a lot about nurturing and caring for animals if they have a pet at home. A child, who is a slow learner or developmentally challenged gets…
Pets teach your child to be responsible
Raising kids is a full time job. And in the middle of it when your children start clamoring for a pet; all you can think of is, ‘here comes more work’. Well, can’t blame you. A new pet does mean additional work, but pet ownership may actually help you with your kids. Who said that…
Reading to your Baby
Your baby may not understand what you’re doing or why you’re doing it, but you need not to wait until your child could understand what you were saying before you started speaking to him or her. Reading aloud to your baby is an important form of stimulation and is a wonderful shared activity you can…
Bring on the Bully
Little sister started wailing and older sister started to giggle.
Managing the first child during delivery of a second child
The new born sharing the love of the parents, the physical pace and other aspects hitherto enjoyed exclusively by the toddler is likely to arouse jealousy to the newborn. How the parents could manage the toddler and convert the jealousy to love is one of the most critical aspects of parenting. Parents should ensure that…
Managing the toddler during pregnancy
While the first pregnancy is usually filled with excitement, the second pregnancy would usually be filled with anxiety on how the first baby would adjust and cope with the newborn. Toddlers tend to catch the changes around the air, and hence is likely to come to know about the pregnancy sooner or later. Not telling…