What to Do to Help Your Toddler Handle a Tantrum Even after you do your best to create an attitude within your child and structure the environment in your home to prevent tantrums, they still occur. Helping toddlers handle tantrums takes patience. Here’s what to do when the little volcano blows at home, in public, […]
Infants and children do annoying things, so plan to spend time and energy correcting these behaviors in your child or at least modifying them to be less annoying. In handling any undesirable behavior in a child, consider these general strategies: Track the trigger. Get inside your child’s mind and figure out why she is doing […]
When You Catch Children Swearing Remember your reaction the first time your four-year-old used a four-letter word? Did your mouth drop open, but with no sound coming out? Did you drop your fork at the dinner table? Did your ears turn red? To growing children, toilet talk is as curious as the functions it stands […]
Make dressing your child easier You will spend a lot of time dressing your child. It’s a lot easier to do if you don’t have to wrestle him through every step. Here’s how to get the job done efficiently so that you and your child enjoy it. Plan ahead Before buying children’s clothing, start dressing […]
Make Children’s Attitudes Easier to Live With Are you tired of asking your child to do something — over and over again — and all you get is grumbling and complaining? Or your child obeys, but reluctantly, and not without protest. Neither children nor adults always do things with a cheerful spirit, but there are […]
The Effects and How to React to Name-Calling “You imbecile!” yelled fourteen-year-old Mary at her annoying seven-year-old brother, Billy. Now Billy didn’t know what an “imbecile” was, but by the tone of his sister’s voice he knew he didn’t want to be one. The Damages of Name-Calling What’s in a name? The point is not so […]
Avoid Dramatic Displays of Supermarket Discipline You have to be adventurous to take a toddler grocery shopping, but sometimes you have no choice. One young mother takes her three-year-old and one-year-old most of the time. She says she thinks of it as a “sport.” To expect a curious two-year-old to be a model of obedience in […]
Kids Talking Back Does your child always demand the last word? “Mary, please do the dishes.” “Mom, I can’t. I’ve got homework.” “Doing the dishes is your job isn’t it?” “Yes, but I have a test tomorrow.” “Dishes only take ten minutes. Please be done by the time I get back.” “It’ll be your fault […]
How to Wean Your Child Off the Binky Pacifiers are, as the name implies, peacemakers. As people who are around babies day and night, we support anything that keeps babies peaceful. Preferably this should be live caregivers, but sometimes human pacifiers need a break. As with all substitute nurturing devices, this is a question of […]
How can a sound as irritating as whining come from such adorable little people? It combines pleading, demanding, pestering, and nagging, interspersed with sniffles and sobs. It escalates in pitch until either the whiner wears out (this can take a long time) or the listener wears down (this takes only a short time). Why kids […]
The Intimate Mother and Baby Attachment Attachment is, in a nutshell, perhaps the most important term in parenting. The close mother and baby attachment that attachment parenting produces is an amazing experience for both that allows mom to become completely in tune with baby’s needs. Baby Becomes a Part of You Mother and baby attachment […]
What Attachment Parenting is Not Attachment parenting gets discussed as a new theory on parenting when it is really doing what feels natural for parents and baby. Attachment parenting is loving and attentive parenting but is nothing close to spoiling a child. The idea behind attachment parenting is that you get to intimately understand your […]
