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Problem-solving with Teenagers

Problem-solving is an important life skill for teenagers to learn. You can help your child develop this skill by using problem-solving at home. Everybody needs to solve problems every day. But we are not born with the skills we need to do this – we have to develop them. Often you can solve problems by…

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Helping Your Child with Mental Health Problems

When a child or adolescent has a mental health problem it can affect the whole family, because they usually have difficulty controlling their behavior, thinking or emotions. Mental health problems in children can be expressed through angry, disruptive or hyperactive behavior or through withdrawal, worry, and emotional responses. Hyperactive behavior can be described like very…

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Child Disciplining

Discipline is a way to teach your child appropriate behavior, not punish them. You will discipline them differently, depending on your child’s age. When disciplining your child, start by setting some rules that your child clearly understands. Be consistent and set rules that encourage your child to succeed, when implementing discipline. Affirm when your child…

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Co-Parenting

Your relationship might have ended, with your former partner, but you’re both still parents to your child. It’s usually in your child’s best interests if your co-parenting arrangements keep you both involved in your child’s life. Creating new parenting arrangements when a relationship breaks down, wasn’t easy, especially if there are strong feelings and unresolved…

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Environmental Health

Environmental health is the field that studies how substances or other environmental factors have an impact on human health. The presence of naturally occurring and man-made chemicals in the air, water, food, pesticides, cleaning products, furniture, and buildings/homes is relevant to early care and education settings. Other important factors include pests, weather, allergens such as…

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Meditation – A Parent's Guide

Parenting would be easy if kids came with manuals, and they behaved according to those manuals. But, they don’t. Kids are curious, uninhibited, creative, eager, unpredictable, energetic, loving and they are learning in very short time absolutely astounding amounts of things. Meditation can help through all stages of parenting, from pre-conception to… well, the job…

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Parent-Child Interaction

Parents guide and support their children. They teach them and they lead them. They do all this by what they do and say. Your child is busy learning about the world and needs you as a personal protector, supporter, and guide. What we expect from our children is what we will get, we have known…

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The First Five Years – Early Child Development

The first five years of a child’s life are vital for development. The experiences youngsters have in these years help them form the adults they’re going to become. Over anything else, your relationship along with your kid shapes the manner your kid develops and learn. About early child development. Development is the term used to…

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Anxiety – An Overview for Parents

What is anxiety? An inherent response to a perceived threat is anxiety, and normal levels of anxiety can assist people to solve problems more efficiently and to be motivated and more focused. Everybody experiences anxiety sometimes, especially when faced with stressful, dangerous or unfamiliar situations. Most of the anxiety that young people and children feel…

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Family Learn at Play, Every Day!

Literacy is more than writing and reading. It’s how we make meaning, how we make sense of the world. It’s what we put in and what we take out, it involves all of our senses. Taking time each day to engage in a learning activity will improve your children’s skills dramatically and also provide an opportunity…

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