Whether a single parent for the indeterminate future or just for the week, beware of the temptation to handle everything alone. While the Helen Reddy tune, "I Am Woman," may be playing in your mind, you do not need to be strong and independent perpetually. Caring for a child, home, finances, and all responsibilities involved is time, energy, and thought consuming. Being extremely independent may be detrimental to you and your family. If you find yourself … [Read more...]
The results of impatience with your child's speech in the early years is almost inevitably a child who stammers. A child needs time to organize his thoughts. If a young child just learning to speak begins with a lot of hesitation and verbal posturing, a "hum" or excessive "uhs" and "urns"-it is better to wait patiently, showing rapt attention. If you say such things as "Well, spit it out; what is it?" almost invariably the child will become an anxious … [Read more...]
Raising a child is hard enough for two parents, let alone one. Yet still, more and more people find themselves left as the sole caretakers of their child or, in some cases, children. According to a government report released in 2007, there are 13.6 million single parents in the United States alone, and they are responsible for raising some 21.2 million children, or just over a quarter of the nation's youth population. Some are balancing one or more … [Read more...]
Respecting what your child says involves not only listening to what he says in conversations you initiate but also listening to the topics he brings up. Often parents believe it is their role to cultivate a young mind and lead him to sophisticated language by setting an example at the dinner table or elsewhere. If this is achieved by carefully contrived rules that actually limit discussion, it is done at the expense of a child's initiative. Linda's … [Read more...]
If you constantly criticize your child using such phrases as, "You're lazy; you never do anything right," your child will feel like an outcast at home. All of us, adults and children alike, need a source of positive input. If your child is constantly exposed to negative criticism in the home, he will turn elsewhere, usually to peers, for the positive feedback he needs. And it is in this type of a situation that a child is likely to be heavily influenced … [Read more...]
Approximately 30% of the Asian population in the UK are Hindu, most from the Gujarat region of India. Hinduism has at its core the idea that the soul is eternal and a belief in reincarnation. Hindus do not eat beef as the cow is considered sacred and usually do not eat pork. Some will eat other meats and fish although many are vegetarian and the more orthodox (women particularly) may not eat eggs. Hindus rely on pulses and dairy products for their … [Read more...]
You can give positive help towards your children's personal, social and emotional development by: Giving praise and physical affection when possible. Listening to worries and concerns and discussing them in a respectful way. Taking time to talk about happenings, ideas, thoughts and feelings. Talking through mistakes or things that have gone wrong in a sensible way, and getting them to understand that a mistake is not the end of the world, … [Read more...]
There has long been an argument about whether children are born with a certain amount of intellectual ability or 'intelligence', or whether it is a result of the way they are brought up. It's called the 'nature versus nurture' debate, and there probably will never be an end to it. In other words, it's beyond the realms of psychologists to know for certain the truth of the matter. What is Intelligence? Basically, whatever else it is, intelligence … [Read more...]
With a little bit of imagination you can easily make play equipment at home to encourage co-ordination and balance. For example: Use a washing-line or rope as a 'snake' and ask the children to walk along it; walk with one foot each side of it; walk across it in a zigzag and jump across it; Balance a piece of wood on two stacks of books or house bricks, just one brick high, and encourage them to walk along it. Hold their hand if they are not … [Read more...]
A further area in which children develop is the realm of creativity and imagination. It is difficult to put into concrete terms exactly what imagination and creativity are: perhaps it is best to see them as a means of expressing ideas and impulses, thoughts and feelings. People's lives are enriched through creativity, whatever form their inventiveness takes. Children's lives certainly are enhanced through their interaction with arts and crafts, … [Read more...]
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