How To Become A Better Parent
by: Dean Caporella.
Parents have moved with the times and are making use of the resources now available online. No longer do moms and dads have to rely on close family members for advice on child issues and with simply the click of a mouse, can take part in...
Birth of a Parent
by: Barbara Eastom Bates.
So you’re pregnant. Congratulations! Your life is about to change in ways you might find unthinkable (and we’re not even talking about the surrender of your once slim waistline to proportions most comparable to that of a Dr. Suess char...
Parent Loans
by: Vanessa Mchooley.
Understanding The Role of Parent LoansFew college students have established any amount of credit prior to college, so it is important that potential college students and the parents of these students understand the options at hand regard...
How Not to Be an Irrational Parent
by: Ronald E Springer.
Imposing Their Future. In contradiction to parents who try to force children down a certain path, individual purpose must be a product of cognition, if it is to sustain the spiritual health of the entity to choose it. Even if the choice ...
Maturing As a Parent
by: Richard Hanes.
I have three children, ages 19 and 16 (yes, the 16 year-olds are twins!) My older son just mailed his college deposit and will leave for school sometime in August. Thinking back over the past few years, I’ve just realized m...
The Most Powerful Question a Parent Can Ask…
by: Neil Millar.
The question I have for you drives right to the heart of the matter. It could alter that tired, haggard feeling you have at the end of a day or weekend. It could alter the life of your children for the better and the life of their future p...
The Courage to Be a Loving Parent
by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D..
Most of us really don’t like it when someone is angry at us. We don’t like it when people go into resistance to helping us when we need help, instead of caring about us. We don’t like it when people withdraw from us, disconnecting fr...
Three Reasons For Becoming A Foster Parent
by: Carl DiNello.
Foster parenting is one of the most humane institutions this country has ever started. While the laws vary from state to state, it still is possible for someone who may feel so blessed in their own lives that they are willing to share thei...
Five Steps to Become an At-Home Parent
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American two-income families earn 75 percent more than their single-income counterparts of a generation ago, but actually have less discretionary income according to Elizabeth Warren and Amelai Tyagi in their book The Two Income Trap. The ...
As A Parent, What To Do About Insomnia In Teenagers
by: Christopher Jay.
Do your teenagers seem to stay up all night? If they cannot sleep, what does that mean? Are they ill? Should they be taken to a doctor? It can be difficult to determine what teenagers are going through. That is the age they stop communica...
Internet Safety What Every Parent Should Know
by: Eastcoastman.
I don't know how you feel about this subject but I know that it is a subject that needs to be addressed. What I'm talking about is parental control software and why most parents don't use it.I can understand that you may not what to pay mo...
Divorced Parent Guide
by: Ruben Francia.
I have seen some divorce parents consciously distance their children from the other parent? Such actions may only be justified when there is a genuine concern about the children's emotional or physical safety when with the other parent. ...
Planning for Parent Care
by: Carol McGowan RN and Cindy Streekstra RN.
When our family members are well, we usually do not think about what may happen in the future. As baby boomers age, they will become the largest group of elderly that our nation has ever had. And, their parents are aging as well. As a res...
The Parent Teen Relationship
by: Carol Shepley.
It was the homework that did it. Each night became a challenge in how I was going to get my son, a non-academic, to do his homework. I tried patience, encouragement, and teaching, all to no avail. I moved on to bribery, threats and puni...
5 Key Things Every Parent Should Know
by: Detra D. Davis.
There is no magic solution to getting issues surrounding child support resolved. Most parents know that when dealing with the bureaucracy tied to the child support system persistence, persistence, persistence is the key that opens the do...
