Parenting Articles, Tips & Info

Co parenting After Divorce

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:28:16 +0200

Divorce can be pretty devastating for both parties involved but most of all for the children who are caught in the middle. Most of the time they do not understand why their mother and father can no longer co exist or be happy as they once were.

Surrogate Parenting is a Great Way to Help a Friend

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:27:54 +0200

It takes a special type of woman to be a surrogate, because surrogate parenting is not something that should be entered into without serious consideration and commitment.

Is Planned Parenting the Best Way to Have a Child?

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:35:15 +0200

Planned parenting was not a common practice until recent years; people enjoyed being surprised by a pregnancy and were overjoyed at the thought of a new baby without worrying about their finances or careers. However, things have changed vastly today, men and women both have careers, finances are a challenge to manage from month to month and planned parenting has become imperative in order to maintain this fragile balance.

Unique Parenting Styles One and All

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:34:29 +0200

I wonder if my kids ever questioned my unique parenting style? I suspect they didn’t know any different for the first several years of life. The question of parenting style never came up, except at a pre-school parent potluck and that was the adults talking amongst themselves. For most kids growing up in a two-parent household, life at home was all they knew up to that point – mom and dad. When separation and divorce occur, changing the makeup of the so-called nuclear family, then perceptions begin to shift as mom tries to fill in the gaps and kids grow up too soon.

Guide to Shared Parenting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:33:57 +0200

Parenting is a demanding lifetime job from which you never get to retire. However, it is by far the most rewarding. There are no courses for parenting and no exams to pass – all you need to do is follow your instincts and make the right choice for your children.

Parenting Toddlers is an Entertaining Experience

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:33:26 +0200

Toddlers make parenting a challenge, because first-time parents are very rarely prepared for a running and screaming toddler who can make a quick escape in a department store. And, no parent is prepared for the first time a toddler shears her curly locks or those of the family dog. Yes, parenting toddlers is a trying experience for even the most composed parents.

The Parenting Skill Handbook Never Prepared Me For This …

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:32:41 +0200

It’s one of those grand buzz words that abound these days - parenting skill - like you apply for it and it arrives in the mail in six to eight weeks. Fortunately for us learn-as-you-go parents, parenting skills are teachable; learning them is the more difficult task. “Why is that?” you ask. I suspect it is because the basis for upbringing children in a moral society has as its roadmap an ever-changing path. And as a path, it is at best just a sketch of what others have tried and found success in. To paint a masterpiece still requires skill, dedication, focus - and luck.

The Importance of a Parenting Plan

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:32:24 +0200

Becoming a parent is a life changing experience whose importance some parents fail to foresee. It is very important to have a parenting plan even before you have a baby and here are some reasons, which hopefully will make you want to give it a second thought.

A Parenting Group could be the Answer for a Stay at Home Mom

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:31:53 +0200

Stay at home mothers; particularly those who are used to working full-time outside of the home in the workforce will often quickly discover the significant value of having other adults around when they join a parenting group. Parenting groups are becoming more and more common throughout the world as more mothers begin to leave the workforce in order to stay home and take care of their young children.

What a Parenting Class on Money Matters can Teach You

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:31:26 +0200

We have all seen the television advertisements advocating that if parents talk to their children about drugs and smoking, their children will listen. Now, apply the same principle to money matters as recent studies have shown that the biggest addiction some college students have is not drugs but credit cards. Freshmen are lured into getting cards in their own name by credit card companies visiting their campus and before you know it, they are trapped in the late charges, minimum payment cycle.

Fun Activities for Those Who Are Parenting Adolescents

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:30:50 +0200

Parenting adolescents is never easy, no matter how much one tries to be the perfect parent. Being an adolescent is certainly not easy in itself. After all, these young people are just on the cusp of being teenagers, so all the angst that comes with puberty it setting in.

What is Good Parenting?

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:30:21 +0200

Good parenting is not impossible, despite the fact that many parents often believe that it is an unattainable goal. Good parenting means knowing your children, and it means knowing where your children are. The measure of good parenting definitely changes through the child’s lifetime, much like the measure of any other organic process. This is because children are always changing, and there are different responsibilities associated with parenting different aged children.

Not Spending Enough Time with Your Child?

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:29:35 +0200

Today’s working parents have an understandably stressful life. They must juggle the demands of work with the proper upbringing of their children. These people try to balance both, trying to avoid the idea of bad parenting at all costs.

A Step by Step Approach to Step Parenting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:28:45 +0200

Death or divorce, both unpleasant circumstances often result in the need for step parenting. Re-marrying and subsequent step parenting require the same skills, dedication, focus and luck that is necessary in good parenting under ideal conditions. In step parenting there is a little more to consider. Let’s call these considerations steps – steps toward parenting or step parenting - sort of fits doesn’t it?

The Advantages of Positive Parenting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:28:13 +0200

When a parent places more emphasis on rewarding children for good behavior than punishing them for negative behavior, the parent is much more effective. This is because children will more often than not respond favorably to the positive reinforcement that their parent is providing. Considering that most adults follow the same sort of pattern, positive parenting makes perfect sense.

Parenting Tips: How to Teach Your Child about Money

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:27:32 +0200

It was Johnny’s sixth birthday and his Uncle Ted got him a gift card. Without batting an eyelid, Johnny asked ‘How much is on it?” While not an entire inappropriate question, the timing could have been better. Johnny should have thanked his Uncle for the gift. Later on, he could have asked his parents to check the balance on the gift card for him online or at the store.

Grateful for Parenting Resources

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:26:49 +0200

Then there was the time all three kids were threatening to run away. It’s not that unusual, you know. As children grow and experiment with pushing against the parameters of life (that’s mom and dad a lot of the time), they’re really trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t work. It’s for sure that we as parents are finding ourselves stressed out and stretched thin with our kids in more and more diverse situations these days.

Stubbornness: A Common Parenting Issue

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:26:15 +0200

When one becomes a parent, it is often like one is signing a contract that allows for some 21 years of parenting issues. From babyhood to adulthood, there is always some parenting issue that parents have to deal with. However, with the proper know-how, many parenting issues can be successfully circumvented.

Get Parenting Education Before You Become a Parent

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:25:43 +0200

Acquiring any skill requires education in the field, and sometimes pretty intensive in order to be able to practice it, from typists to physicists all follow schools, colleges, universities and other specialized courses which provide them with the required knowledge in order to be able to practice it.

Parenting Chat Rooms Have Exploded Over a Decade

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:25:16 +0200

Twenty years ago, if you told an expectant mother that there would soon be a way for her to connect with other expectant mothers across the globe who were expecting at the same time of the year – and that she would never need to pick up the phone to contact them – do you think she would have believed you? Honestly, the answer to that question is a definite no. In the past decade, the popularity of parenting chat and email rooms has literally exploded across the globe.

Will We Make Good Foster Parents?

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:24:43 +0200

Irrespective of whether you have children of your own or not, many couples, and even single parents, consider foster parenting at some point in their lives. Perhaps they can not - or choose not to - have biological children, but would still like to make a difference in someone’s life. Or perhaps they are empty nesters and miss a household with children.

The Basis and Purpose of Active Parenting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:20:33 +0200

Parenting takes a lot of energy, and this is why the matter of active parenting is so truly crucial. Active parenting involves helping your children to learn survival and life skills, and although there are many skills that are involved in the raising of family, there are several factors in particular that are especially important, which are: courage, self-esteem, responsibility, and cooperation.