Helping Your Child Build a Healthy Self-Esteem

As a parent, one of your responsibilities is to ensure the proper development of your child. Your goal is for your child to grow up healthy not just physically, but emotionally and mentally as well. You can help your child become healthy physically by making sure he eats nutritious foods, engages in sports and other [...]

Anger Management: Teaching Children How to Control Their Anger

It is quite customary for children to be open with what they feel although you may not know exactly what it is that bothers them by merely talking to them. You can only take a hint from their behaviors. Children may find difficulty in verbally expressing their feelings and emotions but they do communicate through [...]

The Chore Chart: A Valuable Tool to Teach Your Children the Value of Hard Work

Are you frustrated that you have to ask your children not once, but several times, to do their chores and still they don’t get them done? You’d think your children have developed hearing problems or they have learned to tune you out. It may be time for you to try a new strategy.
Have you ever [...]

Tips for Finding a Home-Based After-School Program

If your child’s school schedules do not include extra curricular activities, you may still find other ways to provide your child opportunities to gain more knowledge and have fun. Your choice of after-school programs need not be limited to structured plans that are similar to school courses that are taught by professional teachers. You [...]

Encourage Your Child To Exercise

There are children as young as 6 to 8 years of age who are interested in exercise and weight lifting. If you must decide for your own kid, know that there are contradicting schools of thought on this as some are for while others are against children exercising.
Generally speaking, exercising and weight training will benefit [...]

Introducing: Teach your child to read workshops

“Why?” This is the question we parents are always trying to answer. It’s good that children ask questions— that’s the best way to learn. All children have two wonderful resources for learning, and that’s imagination and curiosity. As a parent, you can awaken your children to the joy of learning by encouraging their imagination and [...]