The Positive & Negative Influences of Parents on Their Children
Certain facets of parenting and child-rearing help shape the type of adult your child will one day become. Here's what you should know.
Read more →Child Development & Safety: Education, Behavior & Nutrition
Child development requires a balance of early childhood education, effective disciplinary techniques, and structured nutritional planning for growth milestones.
Parents' Effect on Child Behavior
Children are like sponges--they model everything a parent does and incorporate what they see into their own lives. Here's what you should pay attention to.
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The Importance of Parents as Role Models
Parents serve as role models not only through direct interactions with their children, but through the examples they set with their attitude and behavior within the family and in the outside world.
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How to Discipline a Child for Lying
Kids can start lying as young as 3, and it can make parents wonder where they have gone wrong in raising them. The truth is that all kids lie at one time or another, just as adults do.
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How to Teach an Aerobics Class
To teach a great aerobics class you need to choose the right music, give the right cues and inspire and motivate your students.
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How to Teach Yourself Kickboxing
Set up a space in your home, buy some equipment and teach yourself the basics of kickboxing, no gym required.
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How to Teach Yourself Krav Maga
Krav Maga is a military combatives style originated by the Israeli Self-Defense Force. It became popular as a civilian martial arts style during the early 2000s.
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Surprising DOs and DON'Ts of Getting Your Kids to Eat Healthy
From bribing (“If you want to have dessert, you need to eat your broccoli”) to begging (“Just one bite of squash — please?!”), parents will do almost anything to get their kids to eat better.
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What Are the Psychological Causes of Bedwetting?
Wetting the bed is a common condition for children under six years of age and usually is caused by physiological factors. However, bedwetting, also known as secondary enuresis, may return later in adolescence or even adulthood.
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Define Physical Development
Physical development is the process that starts in human infancy and continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross and fine motor skills as well as puberty. Physical development involves developing control over the body, particularly muscles and physical coordination.
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What are Anger Management Techniques for Children Ages 5-8?
While children can show signs of anger problems as early as 3 years old, Scholastic notes that it isn't until after age 5 that children can correctly learn to manage their anger through calming techniques.
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A List of School Snacks for ADHD Kids
Most parents understand that food battles are part of raising children, but parents of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder can struggle to convince their children to eat enough, according to registered dietitian David Feder, writing for "ADDitude," a magazine dedicated to attention disorders.
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How to Get a Hyper Child to Bed
Although you’re exhausted by bedtime, your child seems to be bouncing off the walls when he is supposed to be getting ready for sleep. His excess energy means you get to deal with extra delays and protests. How is he supposed to get enough sleep when he’s so hyper?
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Effects That Language Has on Cognitive Development
Children hear and learn from the sounds of speech even while they are still in the womb. Language learning accelerates once infants are born. Children’s language instincts inspire them to learn the syntax of their native language and a vocabulary of approximately 5,000 words over their first 5 years of life.
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Creative Ways to Discipline a 7 Year Old
When kids enter school, they may become more independent and more difficult to discipline as a result of outside influences. Oftentimes, the more demanding you become while trying to maintain control, the more resistant they seem to become.
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Physical Development in Late Childhood
Late childhood is generally defined as ages 9 through 12. Up until this point, most children have been growing at fairly predictable rates. Now, all bets are off due the often wild fluctuations in physical development.
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How to Make Cheerleader Pom-Poms
If you want to save a bit of cash without skimping on team spirit, you can make your own cheerleading pom-poms at home. By creating your own cheerleading gear, you can make them in your favorite team's colors and customize the size, depending on the age and preference of the intended cheerleader.
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How to Correct Rebellious Behavior in a Child
Rebellious behavior can drive a wedge in between your relationship with your child. You may think that a heavy, strict hand is the best way to stop rebellious behavior in its tracks, but it might just serve to cause your child to rebel even harder against stringent rules and regulations.
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The Importance of Physical Play in Child Development
Physical play includes activities that use physical movements to allow children to use their energy, and it gives children the chance to develop gross and fine motor skills, learn new things and socialize. Physical play also benefits a child’s health.
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Negative Effects of Computers on Children
Today's computers have changed the lives of children of all ages. While this technology can be an amazing thing to enjoy and use for learning and entertainment, it can also have sometimes unseen effects on your child’s health and development.
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