How to Keep Kids Safe in Crowded Places

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Common Sense Tips to Share with Your Kids

Summer is filled with family outings, summer camps and other fun leisurely pastimes like trips to water parks, amusement parks, seasonal community celebrations or even just out shopping. While these activities create lasting memories, busy public places can also increase the chances of children becoming separated from their parents or caregivers. Taking a few simple precautions before and during your outing can help keep everyone safe.

Talk About Safety

Before heading out, discuss the importance of staying close to parents or caregivers. Explain what your child should do if they become separated and reassure them that there are safe adults who can help.

Are you Inadvertently Shaming Your Toddler?

Are you inadvertently shaming your toddler?

Allowing Your Toddler to Make Mistakes Without Feeling Shame

If you’ve ever spoken about your child in front of other adults as if they weren’t there or insisted your child share a favorite toy with another child, there’s a good chance you are.

As parents, we shame our children out of love, concern and, yes, power:  by trying to assert who we think that child should be and how we think he should fit in the world, we inadvertently make our young children feel ashamed when they are at their most vulnerable.  Most of us don’t even realize when we’re inflicting shame, that horrible feeling of embarrassment and self-hatred.

10 ways to improve your parenting skills

How to Improve Your Parenting Skills

10 Tips to Better Your Parenting Skills

Children are exposed to influences – especially technology – from all directions and parenting has never been more important. Good parenting starts with good listening and observation skills.   Below is a list of 10 ways to improve your parenting skills.

9 Steps to Nurturing Self Love in Your Children

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How to Nurture Self Love in our Kids

Parenting is the most important and rewarding part of life for any human being who has children.  We have the divine opportunity to teach love, confidence, compassion, discipline and responsibility to another person.  We will know what kind of parent we are by how we see our children get along and interact in the world.  Love should be the foundation of parenting.  It is also important to know that love is a form of discipline. Nurturing self-love in your children is an important part of raising kids. Here are some ways you can do that.

Top 5 Reasons Teens Put Off Doing Homework

Why Teens Procrastinate with Their Homework

Why Teens Procrastinate with their Homework

Homework:  it’s rare to find a teen that enjoys it.  What’s not rare?  A teen that is quite skilled at waiting until the last minute to do it, which causes all sorts of problems.  When a teen waits until 9 pm to begin homework, they are setting themselves up for inadequate sleep, higher stress levels, and poor academic performance.  Shedding light on the reasons teens delay starting is the first step to help them prioritize their schedules and develop discipline in their work habits. Here are the top 5 reasons that I see appearing time and again with my teen clients: