Divorce Tips: How Parents Prepare Children for a Divorce

It is sad when family issues like having a divorce start to break apart parents, children and the relationships.  How hurtful and destructive it is to bring up kids in an environment of regular discord.  Although parents may separate and hide their marital troubles, kids certainly will sense that things are not working right.  The situation becomes a relief for children if both parents share the truth they feel they can.

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Discipline Challenge on Bad Behaviors: Why Children Always Ignore their Parents

It is too easy to fall into the habit of paying undue attention to the bad behaviors of children.  When parents are faced with discipline challenge they become naggers, constantly correcting children’s action.   Obviously this is not helping them to feel good about themselves. 

Parents feel surprised when even very young kids tune them out and don’t listen. They just ignore what their parents are saying.  Kids pout and act allergic to their parents.  These rejecting bad behaviors make sense, don’t they?  As adults, don’t we try to avoid people who regularly criticize us?  Kids, too, feel exactly what adults feel.  They feel bad if they are not treated with respect.     

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Mark Zuckerberg says Children below 13 will use Facebook

Facebook will challenge law stopping children using the site ‘at some point,' says founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The under-13s age should be allowed to use Facebook, the social network’s founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said.

Speaking at a summit on innovation in schools and teaching in Newark, New Jersey, Mark Zuckerberg said that the current age limit would be challenged “at some point”.  Claire Perry, Conservative MP for Devizes, who has campaigned for online safety, said that ““I would be very uncomfortable about extending this and I think it’s very, very irresponsible of Facebook to be suggesting it.”

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Why Parents Have Different Parenting Styles?

Having effective parenting styles is very important in a family. This is the way in which a little child will be shaped and formed in his formative years. It extends to childhood, teenage up to maturity stage. Having a wrong parenting style will raise your child in a wrong way and it’s too hard to correct them once they’ve grown up.

Most of the problems arise only when parents themselves apply different parenting styles. What could be the major reasons? Answers may come from different factors: personality, culture, size of the family, location, background of parents, educational level, religion, and socioeconomic status.

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When Parents Quarrel – Common Effects Children Experience

When parents quarrel they affect their children in unhealthy ways. When they fight and get hurt by words, they tend to say and do something equally hurting.  Often, they do worse things to the other person.  Although parents may regret the effects it brings, the damage has been done to children. Rather than filling the house with love and unity, they find a dungeon-like home, cold and dark. Lots of parents who quarrel just keep the marriage despite frequent disagreements, completely destroying the home's harmony.

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Is Technology and Internet Giving Risks or Help to Parents & Children

Has the fast development of technology and internet made parenting jobs more difficult or easier?  Are parents and children facing some risks or help?  Does this modern world require some changes in the way we should fulfill our parenting roles?

No doubt, parenting has always been the most challenging of all our endeavors and this will keep continuing through the coming generations. Technology and internet has made the lives of parents and kids in advanced changes along with some risks.  The effects of technology and internet are here to stay.

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Why Children Misbehave -- Bad Behaviors Require Parents’ Non-Reaction

Want to know, parents, the real secrets of having happy kids? And what to do when children misbehave? There are a couple of factors to consider and to deal with bad behaviors:  Love and Non-Reaction of parents.

This is how it goes when kids misbehave:  Expressing love alone is not enough to bring up a good and a happy child.  If love alone is the answer to resolve your kids' bad behaviors, then there would be no more disobedient, stubborn, and defying kids.  Kids misbehave because they lack information, lack some needs, and have some tensions.  

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How Technology and Internet Separate Parents from Children?

 Do you wonder how technology and internet is separating parents from their children? Is it becoming more difficult to turn off your life from this present condition in favor of your kids and family life?    

Nowadays, almost everybody is totally linked with technology and internet and parents can’t almost switch off their gadgets.  They reach for an iPhone or BlackBerry first thing in the morning and the final thing in the evening, and countless times during the day.  Parents visit their Facebook page to see more updates and they become gradually changing their lifestyles to social networking.

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How TV Affects Your Children -- Tips on Parents about TV Programs

Today is the generation where media affects children and parents are incredibly caught by surprise.  Movies, TV programs, music, internet, mobile phones, other gadgets—all of which have invaded and influenced the lives of many people all over the world.   Kids in particular are the ones benefiting most from this.  A couple of questions to ask: How television affects children? Are the present TV programs good or bad for them?  What is the great impact of TV to children—from local to national to global type of TV programs?

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Parenting : How to Train & Discipline Children in This Modern World

Children training and discipline is a parenting theme that has been angrily discussed in current years.   A great deal of this reason came from the term 'discipline.’ This displays a portrait of difficult and cruel punishment in the minds of most parents.  Undeniably, the dispute has made many parents of today to choose and accept a parenting approach that is “extremely permissive.”

We all need training and discipline in our lives.  However, parents have to know what is good and bad behavior, and what things to do and not to do.  We also recognize that there are lots of things in life to do, even if we don't want to.

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Self Esteem for Children: Effective Tips on What Parents should Know

Self esteem for children is a defensive covering against various tests of the world.  Self esteem is the beliefs or feelings a growing child may have about himself or herself—it’s self-perception.  It reveals many personal factors that include physical appearance, mental ability, relationship with others, and the capability to adjust to changes.

The level of self esteem for children would determine how the kids individually react to the world around them.  The people who are important to them—parents, relatives, teachers, peers—can have large impact on the degree of their self-respect. These are some important tips to consider about self esteem:
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Parenting Styles: 3 Common Mistakes Parents Do to Discipline Children

To discipline your child to behave can be a very long process which requires a lot of time, effort, patience, and strategies which simply can’t be done overnight. When done properly, it can be very rewarding and make life's relationship much easier for you, your child and your family.

3 common mistakes of parents

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Children Parents Relationship -- Tips to Making Kids Feel Special

Will your children suffer because they have a busy working mom? Will children be deprived of time and love? Is children-parents relationship one of the big family issues now? 

Many successful and happy people have been brought up by career moms. So having a busy mom is not a guarantee that children will be left unattended. What they do and don’t do will depend on the outcome of the children and parents relationship.  Parents should understand if a busy career becomes a stepping stone or a stumbling block that obstructs children parents relationship.

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Technology and Internet: DOs and DONTs for Children and Parents

Our society is a world of progressive technology and internet based activities.  Like adults, children also become part of it.  As parents, we prepare our young kids to enter into a workforce of computers in their daily living.  There are many benefits they can get for this but certainly there are some which are not good.  Find out the DOs and DONTs when using today's technology and internet:

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Parents on Facebook: Can Kid’s Accept Them as “Friends”

While technology and Internet make more parents sign up daily, more children shy away at the idea of adding a parent as a “friend” on their Facebook account.   In this present day, more have formed support communities to use this new trend of social networking. If your child is 21 years old, accepting a mom or a dad on Facebook is probably to lower his or her calmness quotient.  You become a Big Brother, and your kid’s friends will perhaps edit their messages and images.  They’re afraid of being viewed and criticized.

This is the problem going on in your child's brain when a friend request from mom or dad pops up. Accepting parents would mean danger of being separated by their peers.  Ignoring them means there’s a threat of getting grounded.
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Tips on Training Children to Earn Money Online

Young people and children in today’s time, have their unique demands for life and money.  Teenagers love the latest ipods, costly gadgets, laptops and netbooks.  However, most middle-class parents cannot afford these excessive demands.  There are some kids who know that it’s not good for them to ask for all things from parents.  To cope with these demands, what options can our children have to earn money online?

Nowadays, earning money online is possible for the young  kids.  As they face their computers for one to two hours each day, they can create certain amounts for their allowance and pocket money.   This process is helpful to fulfilling their money needs.  Just like adults, kids are also smart to make money using today's technology and Internet: 

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Multi-Tasking Parents: How to Cope with Daily Pressures

Despite the modern generation, and the many latest innovations to make life easier and faster, stress remains troubling our lives, especially parents.  That’s why the term “multi-tasking” is commonly used and heard in every home.

Under many circumstances, parenting is truly stressful, more so when mothers or fathers always undergo pressures and anxieties.  You may have a child or five children, and you work outside or just stay at home.  All parents have 24/7 period to finish their jobs.  This multi-tasking process is very demanding and exhausting.
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Transformers Toys : Boosting Kid’s Mind’s Eye & Creativity

Why have Transformer toys become very popular now, to the kids and adults alike?  And how have they gained their popularity?  Obviously, when you go around the city there are robot toys you can see everywhere.  They gained their popularity from a movie, technology, TV show, or a comic.

If you try to search which is the year’s most admired children’s toys, certainly it would be Transformers.  Their attractiveness became sky rocketed in 1980’s when they’re initially launched in public.  They diminished in fame after that, but gained it back in 2007.  The high technology “Transformers: The Movie” was released in that year and now the latest “Transformers 3 Free: Dark of the Moon” for this year.
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Modern Children: Are They Hard to Discipline Now?

Is there a discipline guide for children in our present time? Is it really hard to discipline modern children nowadays? How can they be compared to old generations? 

Those who were born during 1990’s have really lived an entirely different world compared to their parents.  Indeed, parents grew up with a TV set and other home-based equipment. But to make a comparison between today’s undersized screen and the older generation of three decades ago, is like matching old mobile phones of 1980’s Dyna TAC Motorola with this day’s innovations.  

In our time now, children learn both visually and mentally without necessarily transmitting the transcribed words to mind picture. This was not the same with what their parents did before. 

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Eating Habits : Keys to Developing Healthy Eating among Children

Children naturally eat food when they are feeling hungry.  There are times they don’t want to eat, not because they don’t like the food but because they're not really hungry.  But if they want to eat, they ask for food.  This is not same with adults who keep eating even they're already full. Unfortunately, many children are now overweight kids because they are trained to eat like adults.

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