3 Things To Tell Your Child Before A Funeral Service

Depending on the age of your child(ren), you will want to emotionally help prepare them for what they might experience at a funeral service. Funerals can be strange to a young child who may see adults openly weeping, people looking distressed, open casket funerals, etc. These sights might overwhelm a young child which is why explaining this to your children may help improve the entire experience. Everything in this post will directly relate to children old enough to speak and understand words.

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Coping With The First Few Months Of Your Baby's Life

Pregnancy can fly by, and before you know it, you are holding your newborn in your arms. And while you are delighted to finally meet your child, the next few months can be very challenging. In fact, it can take months before you get into any kind of routine...

Why I Took My Son To March For Women

My son MarkAnthony reads, he reads a lot. People are often proud of his love for books. I am too. However, no matter how much empathy my son gains from reading (which is quite a bit), there's more work to be done and more conversation to be had. When I heard about the women's march that was planned to take place all over the world...

Pocket Money Pitfalls – A Disincentive For Help With The Chores?

There are plenty of good reasons why parents decide to give their children pocket money. For lots of parents it’s a bargaining tool for getting children to help with the daily chores. But why should kids get financial remuneration for household chores when...

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How To Raise Tidy Kids

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to keep your house clean when your kids are working against you. And young kids can be messy! However, young kids can also be trained. You have an opportunity, right now, to help build the lifelong habits that will help your kids live a tidy lifestyle from the beginning.

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Parents' Guide To Throwing The Ideal Birthday Party

As parents, one of your obligations is going to be to throw your children birthday parties. These are sacred when you’re a child, so try to make the occasion memorable for your kids...

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How To Deal With New Parent Jitters

Having a new baby for the first time is super exciting, but it is also nerve-wracking. Most new parents haven’t even held a baby before...

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8 Rules Of Mindful Parenting

These days it’s not enough to “just” be a parent. A lot of parents are trying to be “mindful” parents. To be a mindful parent, you have to be present. This means doing...

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Trick-or-Treat Safety Tips Every Parent Should Know

Run through this Halloween safety checklist to make sure your children stay safe while they’re out trick-or-treating!

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How Cell Phones Are Affecting Families — And What To Do About It

So many are accustomed to keeping their phones at an arms' reach away, and that behavior is having a profound effect on their kids.

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Netflix Now Giving Employees 'Unlimited' Maternity, Paternity Leave

Netflix on Tuesday announced that it would offer something completely unheard of in the corporate world: unlimited parental leave for the first year of a child's life.

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What Parents Should Know About Frostbite

As temperatures fall and frolicking in the snow becomes the playtime du jour, watch out for this tricky condition. Even if you don’t live in some ice-swept polar extreme, watch your little ones for frostbite. A kid engrossed in snow-play won’t want to stop to warm up, points out Yaffa Gewirtz, MD....

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Your Key To Sleep Training Success: Managing Expectations

Clearly, there is no magic success pill when it comes to sleep training. The process of any kind of training typically insinuates work or learning of some kind. Sleep training is no different; it’s a combination of multiple essential pieces, all-working together in unison, to achieve sleep success.

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Your Guide To Night Feeds and Weaning

A big piece of the confusion pie when it comes to sleep training is the question of what happens with the night feedings? Do we keep them? Do we feed on some wakings and not others? Do we wait a certain amount of time before responding to them for the feed? Do we cut them all out?

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6 Parenting Tips For Busting the Body Image Blues

We teach them to look both ways before they cross the street, not to stick metal things in the electrical outlet and not to give personal information to strangers. As a parent encountering body image issues, “Don’t go down the alley!” becomes “That scale doesn’t define you!”

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