5 Rules to Help you handle your Child’s  Behavior Is your child being disrespectful? Are you witnessing  behaviors  such as cursing, yelling, arguing, ignoring you, and refusing requests? Now is the time for you to wake up. Wake up and get into action of controlling the situation before it becomes out of your hands. Set limits and control them. This decision takes time so be patient. Don’t expect your child’s  behavior  to change directly after once you change how you respond to your kid’s disrespectful  behavior . Does your child ignore consequences? When your child starts developing disrespectful  behavior  then this can usually mean that your child is having difficulties in problem-solving skills and lack knowledge on how to be respectful and have limits. Kids usually think they know what they are doing and most of the time with kids are separated from their pare...

Discipline and Punishment: How to use them together? Parents usually focus on many aspects in raising their children and don’t give too much attention on the part where discipline and punishment are the two most important raising techniques parents should teach. The definition of Discipline is to teach your child of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Discipline should be a positive action you do, or in other words a positive force which helps you in building your child’s behavior in a good way. The goal a parent will want from discipline is to change her child’s unorganized and random behavior into a more organized and controlled behavior. This goal can be achieved by teaching, firmness, and reminders. In addition, many techniques lay under discipline, one of which is punishments. Punishments come in various forms, such as “physical (a light spank); or psychological– disapproval, isolation from others, or withdrawal of privileges”. The reason for punishment is to eli...

A Diary of a Mother  (Preparation  into your  Child's Education Years) Yesterday was the first day of preschool of my elder son. I woke up very early; or in other words I didn’t sleep. I prepared the lunch box, got him ready and went down to wait for the bus to come. I was not alone; my husband, my mom and my in-laws were there with me! I felt it was such an important day for me. It was the first day at pre-school!  My husband and I shared a lot of emotions at that moment from happiness, to being proud, and having so much hope. Me and my husband talked for hours about that day and about how the future of our son will be. And then in a blind of an eye! I was looking for a suitable university for my son! And their questions started to pop around me. What? How? When? It was like a dream or like a quick blink. At that moment I was excited, happy and confident again that my son got the best education and is fully ready to face the challenges in the un...

What to do about your Child’s endless NO's? The term used for your child’s continuous “NO” answers is "toddler refusal", the reason they say “no” is because it’s easy to say and they can.” Susanne Denham, professor of developmental psychology at George Mason University and author of  Emotional Development in Young Children , states “They feel like they need to keep on exercising it.” This condition can suddenly appear and can keep the parents troubled over the new actions their toddlers are having. This condition can disappear as it first appeared . Mike Lynd, a father expressing his experience with his daughter Meredith, states "One day Meredith opened her mouth, and instead of 'No,' out came 'Mmmmmmm I don't know.' And that was the end of it." The solution to the word no is to try to teach your child to imitate your words, and by that start experimenting strategies that include copying.    5 steps to resolve this problem: ...

Sharing and Learning how to Share Children mostly tend to hate sharing. It’s definitely a challenge for them but they should learn to share when they are still young. An example on how to help your child to share is by providing him/her all the time and opportunities to practice. Another technique is to encourage them when they share. Why sharing is important? Sharing is a very important skill that a person takes through their life. Your child will need to learn how to share before he/she enters child care, preschool or kindergarten. Compromises come from sharing. It’s the fact that when you give you take at the same time. Sharing teaches children on how to take turns and accept disappointments, which are also very important life skills. Helping your child learn about sharing Your child does what you do, children observe their parent’s actions, so if you show your child how good sharing looks like and what are its rewards, it will give your child a push to act upon it...

Can a Mother’s Depression affect her Baby? Have you seen a depressed mother? Did you wonder if it could affect her baby? The answer is: yes, it does, but there is a solution to it too. The question is what is Maternal Depression? Maternal depression comes from the birth of your child. Sometimes these symptoms might occur during pregnancy. There are three types of maternal Depression: 1.     Baby blues : is short in time but very intense, they happen when a mother’s milk comes in. Also, in that stage a mother finds herself very sad, moody, or sometimes anxious. This type is normal since it is caused by hormonal changes which within few days’ stop appearing. In case they last for more than two weeks then there would be a probability of a depression illness. 2.     Postpartum depression: is a depression that comes after the period of baby blues, it can happen anytime during the year after giving birth. Statistics state that 1 ou...