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Never Deride Your Child’s Speech or Rush Him in His Initial Efforts

January 1, 2010
Never Deride Your Child’s Speech or Rush Him in His Initial Efforts

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 [...]

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The Difficulties of Single Parenting

December 29, 2009
The Difficulties of Single Parenting

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 [...]

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Respect and Encourage Your Child’s Initiative

December 8, 2009
Respect and Encourage Your Child’s Initiative

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 [...]

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Provide Positive Encouragement Motivation to Your Child

December 7, 2009
Provide Positive Encouragement Motivation to Your Child

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, [...]

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Asian Diet for Children

December 6, 2009
Asian Diet for Children

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 [...]

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Personal and Emotional Development For Children

December 4, 2009
Personal and Emotional Development For Children

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 [...]

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Theories of Children’s Intellectual Ability

December 3, 2009
Theories of Children’s Intellectual Ability

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 [...]

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How Make Your Own Equipment And Games To Help Your Children Develop Motor Skills

December 1, 2009
How Make Your Own Equipment And Games To Help Your Children Develop Motor Skills

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 [...]

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Creativity Development For Your Children

November 30, 2009
Creativity Development For Your Children

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 [...]

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Are You Training Your Child How to Become a Bully?

May 15, 2009
Are You Training Your Child How to Become a Bully?

Parents often unwittingly teach their children to become bullies. This shouldn’t come as a shock seeing as though little bullies are often taught by bigger bullies, and in many cases, by their own parents. However, what should come as a shock is the fact that some of this teaching is not a conscious process. Most [...]

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