Modern Parenting Tips: Styles & Approach to Disciplining & Training Children: 12/1/11

Technology: Helping Video Game Addicts Overcome Their Addiction

Video game addicts.

While your children may not seem to be one of the video game addicts, majority of psychologists state that there are some family concerns on the overpowering obsessions children experience when playing video games.

If your children show proofs as video game addicts, try to follow the suggested corrective measures below. See how their behavior changes. If improvement doesn’t happen, then it’s time to confront your children about the issue. Try outside help by consulting with their teachers, peers, or neighbors.

Fears: Developmental Fears Children Face (based on certain age)

Developmental Fears Children Face

Fears can be found from kids of different ages. There are different fears children face in different stages, a reality that happens typically to every child. Each fear is specific, based on a certain age.

Child Abuse: Understanding Types of Child Abuse and How to Avoid Them

Child abuse is failing or doing something that could result to injury or harm to a child.

An abuser is someone who fails to take care of a child, bodily injures the child, or communicates sexually with the child.

What are the types of child abuse?

Warning Symptoms and Physical Signs of Sexual Abuse or Incest

Seek for immediate medical treatment if you observe any of the following warning symptoms and physical signs of physical abuse or incest on your child. Discuss with the physician, share the problems with them. Get a report from the doctor should there be physical evidence of incest or sexual abuse.

Incest physical warning signs could demonstrate the following:

1. Rectal pain, discharge, swelling, itching, and bleeding.

2. Vaginal pain.

3. Difficulty in swallowing, urinating or bowel movements.

Tired Mother: How to Enhance Creativity to Children

How to enhance creativity to children?

"Just before I became a parent I had a dream of helping my children become creative contributors to society; however, the reality of daily living leaves me exhausted and makes me a tired parent. After the whole day’s tasks, I feel I am hardly in the right mood to motivate the creativity of my son."

Family Meetings: Resolving Family Issues and Conflicts through Family Meetings

Because there is continual interaction between family members, the complexity of living may seem overwhelming, but a constructive approach of resolving family issues and conflicts is always possible. Good communication between all members is essential, especially during periods of stress and anger. No families are completely free of problems. Even those who seem ideally happy encounter inevitable problems that must be solved.

A Spoiled Child: 10 Signs That Your Child is Spoiled


Signs your child is spoiled.

What are the signs to know that your child is spoiled? Spoil me rotten! Many parents will say that they don’t spoil their child with unending amounts of hugging, rocking, holding, or cooing. Over-indulgence can make a child spoiled especially when she has passed already her toddler years. It is so simple to get the spoiled child on the playground and yet it’s much difficult to use a critical eye for us the parents.

Here are the top 10 signs of a spoiled child:

1. Often, she’s throwing tantrums. Whether at home or in public, a spoiled child frequently throws many tantrums, and would not care about the people watching around her.

How to Raise Good Kids: Be Realistic, Kids Mess Up

Kids are not perfect. How to raise good kids is not expecting perfection. They mess up most of the time. They are kids, especially when it comes to grades. Good grades are not worth crying over. Good grades are not worth sacrificing social balance over. Ask your kids to do their best then teach them to be satisfied with their results.

Raising Your Child: 3 Secrets to Raising a Happy Child

There are really no secrets to raising a happy child. Parents need only to do one simple thing: to stop doing all things that keep the child pleased in the short-term. Giving everything your child wants make him think everything can be attained in this world which is not the way it is.

Secrets to Understanding Social and Emotional Growth of Children

Many factors affect the social and emotional growth of children. Parents are the most significant influence on children’s feelings about themselves. Kids who feel liked and accepted by their parents have a strong foundation for successful social and emotional development.

Tips When Kids Want Electronic Gadgets

It’s never ending; kids always want to get electronic gadgets. They want you to buy them video games and the latest gadget player. They want to get involved in the community of on-line gaming with fees to pay every month. Your kids wish to buy a mobile phone with the newest features. They want to use a computer, tablet, or laptop. The list of electronic gadgets your kids want to buy just keeps on coming. How would parents cope up with the advanced technology? How to distinguish which electronic gadgets can help or not?

There are no Bad Little Kids

Kids are dirty, messy, and expensive but there are no bad little kids. They keep you from doing what you would like to do so you can drive them around to do what they want to do. They are selfish, demanding, grungy little creatures that destroy your house, your car, and about everything else you hold dear.

Tantrum: 6 Quick Ways to Handle a Full-Blown Temper Tantrum

No matter how much you try to escape from a child’s temper tantrum, know that this will always be a challenge of your parenting life—to handle a full-blown tantrum. What significant steps will you do to children in the midst of tantrums, especially when you’re feeling helpless?