It’s very easy to allow your children to overload their schedules with many activities. After all, you want them to get the most exposure possible. But too many activities and too little downtime can lead to irritability, distraction and other signs of stress. This is the time for your children’s first lesson in setting limits […]
Sleep Deprivation Even Affects Children – Our Tips to Get More Sleep
If, as a recent study suggests, children who don’t get enough sleep have an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), what can parents do about it? As many as one-third of children in the U.S. do not get an adequate amount of sleep, it has been reported. Surprisingly, something as seemingly simple […]
Stability, Not Marriage, Key to Kids’ Happiness
A new study by an Ohio State University researcher found that it is the stability of the parent and the home, not marital status, that determines whether divorced children will thrive and be happy. The study found that children who grow up with a single mother are as likely to succeed academically and socially as those […]
Parents Must Temper Children’s Dreams With Reality
As parents, we all want our children to be happy in life and succeed. We encourage our children to dream big. We nourish our children’s dreams. We buy our future fireman a fireman’s hat at the toy store and take him to visit the local fire station. We invest in a piano and arrange music lessons for our […]
What Parents Can Do About Bullying
Children who are bullied suffer higher rates of anxiety, depression and low self-esteem and are more likely to have suicidal thoughts than kids who aren’t victimized by classroom bullies, warns a recent Mayo Clinic report (see our August 21, 2009 post). With nearly half of all school-aged children subjected to bullying at some point during […]
What Parents Need to Know About Bullying
Bullies. Every classroom seems to have one. In another age, bullying was considered a rite of passage; but that was before the massacres at Columbine and Virginia Tech. We now know that bullying can have long-lasting effects, both for bullies and their victims. Since April, at least three children have committed suicide as the result […]