Childhood abductions are being reported more and more on the evening news, and the terrifying prospect of abduction fills the minds of parents across the country. But it’s important to remember that the majority of children will pass through childhood safely. One of the challenges of being a parent is to teach your children to be cautious without filling them with too much fear or anxiety. Although...
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Gratitude
is an attitude…each and every day!
You are a parent. And no matter how tough it gets, or how hard it may be to raise your kids, at the end of the day you are still a parent. Would you trade that for the world? Sometimes it takes a day like Thanksgiving to compel us to stop, give thanks for what we have and remind ourselves that gratitude is an attitude. This is not a day to...
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How to Stop School Bullying was the focus of a recent blog post on the parentalwisdom.com site. The author and founder of the site, my dear friend, Tina Nocera, has raised two kids and knows a thing or two about how to stop school bullying. Here are her 3 simple tips:
How to stop School Bullying
1. Help kids feel so good about themselves that teasing won’t faze them! Tina...
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Smartphone pictures you’ve e-mailed or uploaded could be leaking location information, and placing your children in potential danger! This is the scary information that this NBC news video about smartphone pictures reveals.
UMKC computer science Professor Deep Medhi explained that when you send smartphone pictures, they leave a high-tech invisible trail using the same geo-tracking technology...
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Sibling rivalries are driving many parents stark raving mad! Can’t they ever get along? Well, I would like to share this wonderful article by Tina Nocera, my dear friend and the brains behind parentalwisdom.com, for which I am an advisor. Tina is a mother who is known for her outside-the-box thinking. Here’s her solution to the age-old problem of sibling rivalries:
A Solution...
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An anticipated new Gun Law in Florida might just land me in jail! While it is presently setting its sights on medical doctors, particularly pediatricians, it’s only a matter of time before other child specialists, like myself, will be targeted, as well.
A law passed by the Florida legislature and likely to be signed by Republican Governor Rick Scott would make it a crime for doctors to counsel...
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I recently read a blog about teaching Etiquette for Children that I would like to share. I feel that etiquette, or manners, has dwindled over the last many years by adults and kids, alike. However, I think that being polite, greeting people appropriately and making a good first impression are all still very important to not only teach our kids, but continue to model ourselves.
“5 Simple Etiquette...
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Tags: child, children, Communication, etiquette, etiquette for children, Family, kids, manners, Parenting, parents, polite, respect
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? Brad and Angelina
Life&Style synopsis:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Joile let the kids gorge on jund food, from Cheetos to McDonald’s.
Parenting Style: Relaxed. “There isn’t...
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