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Newborn care basics include managing belly button discharge and bleeding, while understanding how different parenting styles impact long-term child development.
How the Authoritative Parenting Style Impacts a Child's Behavior
Parents have different styles, from the permissive parent who allows pretty much any kind of behavior to the overly strict parent who lays down rules about everything.
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Parents Who Try to Keep Their Children Dependent
How certain types of parenting, like helicopter parenting, can be more harmful than helpful to children.
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The 3 Types of Parenting Styles
Parenting styles differ from family to family, and may even vary from day to day within one family. All parents make decisions for their children that may be more strict or more indulgent on occasion. For the most part, however, the way that one parents falls into one of three general parenting methods.
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The Effects of Angry Fathers on Children
A parent is bound to become angry now and again, but situations that expose a child to constant anger from a parent, especially a father, may have serious repercussions for childhood development, according to CompassionPower.com.
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Daycare Vs. Stay at Home Parent
Many parents struggle with the question of whether to stay at home with their children or place them in daycare while they work. There are many on both sides of the fence when it comes to judging which situation is in the best interest of the children.
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Puberty Facts for Girls
When discussing puberty with your daughter, be open and direct with her about the new changes she will soon experience. Encourage her to come to you with any questions or concerns she has.
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Role of Culture in the Influencing of Parenting Styles
Parents from around the world have universal feelings of love, affection and hope for their children, but cultural values and expectations can color how these emotions are communicated.
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How Does It Affect Children When Their Parents Ignore Them?
Humans interact with their children in a variety of ways. Authoritarian parents tend to lay down the law and mete out harsh punishments, while permissive parents set few or no limits. The authoritative parenting style, in which parents are warm, loving and still set definite limits, seems to be the most effective.
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What Are the Benefits of a Two-Parent Household?
Even with the rise in single-parent families, most children still live in two-parent households. Depending on the state, anywhere from 53 to 79 percent lived with two parents in 2011, according to the national KIDS COUNT program.
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What Effects Do Parental Expectations Have on Kids?
Parental expectations help nurture your child's sense of self-esteem and encourage healthy development. When expectations are set unrealistically high -- or, on the other hand, ridiculously low -- children's personalities and sense of self-worth are negatively affected.
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What Are the Essential Characteristics of a Good Parent?
Being a successful parent helps develop qualities in children such as honesty, empathy, self-control, self-reliance, cooperation, cheerfulness and kindness, and instills in them the motivation to achieve, according to author and Temple University psychology professor Laurence Steinberg.
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Parenting: What to Do When Your Child Is Kissing Another Child
Kissing is a form of affection, and many children kiss others because they want to show their love. Children enjoy being kissed because it means that someone cares about them.
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Examples of Authoritarian Parenting
If you are a parent, chances are you fall into one of four parenting categories: permissive, uninvolved, authoritative and authoritarian. The permissive parent, the least demanding of the group, tends to be highly responsive to his child's emotional needs.
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How to Get Children to Stop Biting the Inside of Their Mouths
Many children and adults have nervous habits that can cause physical harm. Deliberate cheek or tongue biting might fit into this category. There could be a physical cause for this habit, it may occur from nervousness or a youngster might bite the inside of her mouth accidentally.
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A Bruised Belly Button While Pregnant
During pregnancy you may notice a variety of changes to your skin. Some people may comment on the sudden glow on your face, a positive transformation reflecting your inner joy. Other changes, such as stretch marks, acne and varicose veins, represent the unwanted effects of pregnancy.
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The Impact of Parenting Styles on Children's Development
How you respond to and discipline your children greatly affects how they develop, both cognitively and socially. A childβs development process is influenced by a mixture of all the stimuli he comes into contact with, both with individuals and with his environment.
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How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding After Giving Birth
After watching your belly grow for nearly 10 months, you may be eager to lose baby weight. While breastfeeding may actually expedite your weight loss, you shouldn't make a concentrated effort to shed pounds during the first two months postpartum.
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Belly Button Discoloration in a Newborn
A discolored bellybutton -- usually blue or purplish -- is caused by an umbilical hernia. Ten percent of newborns, particularly girls and infants with African heritage, have umbilical hernias. These hernias are usually painless, and they often disappear on their own by age 2.
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Is It OK if My Newborn Baby's Belly Button Is Bleeding?
A baby's belly button may bleed a little in the days following birth. A few spots of blood is usually okay. However, if your baby's belly button keeps bleeding weeks after birth, bleeds heavily or shows signs of inflammation, then it may indicate another condition.
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