Parents lose between 350-750+ hours of sleep the first year of a baby’s life. We’d love to give you a rosy picture of the subsequent years, but getting enough sleep, particularly with younger children, is a hard to come by luxury. Sleep-deficits, and even REM-deficits, can easily become the norm. Unfortunately, this side-effect of parenting …
If communication is the “key” to good relationships, then in the parent-child world this “key” is golden. It is one of the most precious tools a parent can use. It can unlock the door to a better relationship, and can help parents regulate their child’s behavior. (That’s right, think tantrum time.) Even more valuable, this …
Imagine you are on an alien planet, where you understand NOTHING. You don’t speak the language, you don’t know what anything is and you certainly don’t understand what the aliens are doing. Now, imagine an alien put you in their spaceship and strapped you down with restraints? What if an alien poked and prodded you …
Fold the napkin just so and your party will be a smash! Hug your child and their tantrum will disappear! If only it were as easy as following an etiquette book to figure out why and what to do when children misbehave, but of course, it’s not. The root of misbehavior has many theories (genetics, …
Praise: to express a favorable judgement of, to glorify Encourage: to inspire with courage, spirit, hope, to advance, foster, boost You can tell from the definitions above that praise and encouragement are very different. Still, parents often believe they are encouraging their child when they are actually praising them. If phrases like, “You’re the best!” …
Couplehood is not a smooth cocktail when you add children in the mix. In fact, couples today are less satisfied in their child-filled-marriages than each previous generation, and parents today are the least satisfied. And if you think money can buy child-help happiness, think again. The more money parents have, the less happy they are …
Why do young children from “professional parents” have a bigger vocabulary than young children from “welfare parents”? We’ll give you a hint. It’s not because of socio-economic status, race, broken homes, birth order, bad neighborhoods, pre-school, or geography. The answer…kids with “professional parents” hear approximately 32-million more spoken words between the age of 0-4 than …