How to Build Confidence in Your Children by giving them Swimming Lessons
One of the most confidence-building skills you can teach your child is the ability to swim. Children who know how to swim overcome one of life's most gripping fears: the…
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How to Build Confidence in Your Children
One simple and effective way to build confidence in your child is to make certain that he or she always has enough money for at least two phone calls. You…
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How to Be Nice To Your Older Sister
Do you want to have a strong relationship with your older sister? Do you want to be closer to her? Do you want to know more about her? Do you…
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How to Avoid Harassing Your Child with Idle Threats
Harassing your child with idle threats is an extremely effective way of tearing down confidence and destroying self-esteem. Idle threats instill fear in a child, and fear eats away at…
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How to Ask Your Child’s Opinion
A big part of a child's self-esteem is rooted in the feeling that his or her feelings and thoughts are valuable and important to a parent, to the family, and…
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How to Ask Your Child to Pray
Asking your child to pray at meals, at bedtime, and in emergencies is a way of saying to your child, "I value your relationship with God." Can there be any…
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How to Apologize to Your Child
When you know you've disappointed, hurt, or failed your child in some way admit it to your child. Apologize. Let your child know that you are sorry for what you…
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How to Accept Your ADHD Children
Sometimes parents deny or refuse to accept that there is a problem, even though it is very obvious to the teacher. Some may blame the teacher for the child's problems…
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How to Work Out a Fair Allowance for your Children
How should you and your teenager work out a fair allowance? Comparisons with friends might be difficult, especially if some have parents who are far better or worse off than…
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How to Parent Teens About Their Future Employment
As parents, we have come from an age group that has known extended, if not full, employment. A job, or the reasonable prospect of one, was a normal expectation. We…
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How to Use The Proper Tone When you Talk to your Teen Child
When talking to young people, the tone you use can not only sabotage any chance for an immediate, constructive exchange, but set the scene for further disagreements within the family.…
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How to Treat Your Children’s Toileting Accidents
Toilet training is the first major battle of wills between parents and preschoolers. The war breaks out when parents ask their independence-loving offspring to give up something that is second…
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How To Treat Lies, Martyrdom and Bad Meal-Time Behaviors in Children
Lying and bending the truth When the children of this impeachment generation hear of young George Washington they think, 'What a dork.' Fancy standing in front of your dad and…
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How to Take a Child-Free Weekend Away
Once you have children, it is tempting to feel that every break must be a family holiday. Indeed, many parents feel guilty at the mere thought of going away without…
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How To Treat Children The Way You Would Like To Be Treated
The key to a good relationship, whether it's between two adults or a parent and a child, is to treat the other person the way you would like to be…
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How to Solve Child Discipline Problem By The ABC Approach
ABC is a simple way to sort out behavior. Each problem is looked at in three parts: A. the antecedent (what triggered it off) B. the behavior (what the child…
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How to Reverse 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…
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How to Relate Children’s Diet And Their Behavior Problems
A horse trainer knows that the right diet gives speed on the final furlong, but it doesn't make a horse behave badly. A good diet prepares our children for the…
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How To Properly Approach A Children Behavior Problem
When parents come to me many are in a state of numb confusion. They are quite clear that they don't like what is going on, but they can't see why…
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How to Prevent Your Child From Tooth Grinding And Whingeing
Tooth grinding When teeth are noisily ground by day, this is usually associated with severe intellectual disability. But tooth grinding at night is extremely common in normal, well-adjusted children. Hardy…
