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Are your kids texting, gaming and listening to music all the time? Well, a NY mom finally said, “Enough!” and actually unplugged her 3 teenagers for not a day, a week or a month…but for six months! She not only stopped her kids texting, video gaming and iPod listening, but also all Internet, TV and cell phones!
Amazing thing started to happen. They started eating meals together, playing cards,...
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I was on the radio in Trinidad, talking about “talking with kids,” when an indignant listener called in. “I keep hearing you talking about kids…they are not goats, they are children. If you call them kids, you are thinking of them as animals. If you call them children, maybe they will act like children and not animals,” he stated. Now, I’m paraphrasing, and yet his words brought up a very...
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I believe that everyone is special in his or her own unique way. Unfortunately, while I may see the specialness in each person, I find that many adults don’t see themselves as being special at all. Here’s a case in point:
I was singing in the aisle again. It’s something that I do wherever I am; I move and groove to good music whenever I hear it. This happened to be in the home improvement department...
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This week on newsstands everywhere, Life&Style Weekly enlisted Dr. Vicki as their parenting expert to comment on the styles of parenting of several celeb parents.
Styles of Parenting: Which one do they choose? Madonna
Life&Style synopsis:
Madonna’s kids aren’t allowed to watch TV or eat ice cream. And if Lourdes, 14, leaves clothes on the floor, “we put [them] in a bag,...
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This week on newsstands everywhere, Life&Style Weekly enlisted Dr. Vicki as their parenting expert to comment on the styles of parenting of several celeb parents.
Styles of Parenting: Which one do they choose? Victoria and David Beckham
Life&Style synopsis:
“I’ve never had to punish them physically,” Victoria Beckham says of sons Brooklyn 11, Cruz 6 and Romeo 8. “Besides,...
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Valentines Day for Children can be a happy time or a conflicted one.
Here are a couple of Ask Dr. Vicki questions I have received over the past year:
Does my child have to give a valentine to everyone in the class?
Dr. Vicki’s comments:
Valentines Day for children means being nice to everyone, even if you don’t like them! Generally, in the younger grades, kids are encouraged to give valentines...
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Kudos for this boy’s parents, who let him say what he feels. Many parents would get angry or have their feelings hurt if their kids said, “I don’t like you, Mommy!” But usually, they are either simply expressing anger, or as in this case, qualifying what deserves loving. It’s important to teach your kids about unconditional love—you love them all the time,...
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Here’s what Dr. Vicki, The Parenting Expert, has to say:
This YouTube video has some great points, and I am frustrated that they call these suggestions “sneaky strategies.” I don’t think they are sneaky at all…but rather good, effective ways of interacting and parenting your children! However, as a child psychologist, I am totally opposed to one of their suggestions:...
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The Shine
User post: Parenting — Things every parent needs to hear from a teen’s point of view by Anna, on Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:58pm PST
Hello, my name is Anna, and I’m a teen. Every week I see posts on here about parenting, and how to “deal” with teens. The problem is that these posts are all written by adults. I’m not saying that they don’t know what they’re...
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Don’t you just love to hear a baby laugh? When Alex was young, I called his giggling, chuckling and laughing, “Music to my ears.” I decided that I didn’t want a day to go by without my hearing him laugh. So, in a rare day when I couldn’t recall the laughter, I would tickle him at bedtime. Just so that I could again hear that…Music to my ears.
What about...
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