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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Children with working parents have a big problem, according to Oprah. They have parents who “are so fixated on their 9-5 jobs that they’ve lost focus of their 5 pm-9 am jobs—their families.” Oprah’s solution is to create another TV program, this time called, “Kidnapped by the Kids.” This show is about, “Kids confronting their parents,” and letting...
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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
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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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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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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Dear Dr. Vicki:
My husband and I want to have a child; I’m 46 and he’s 49. Could you please tell us some of the advantages of being older parents?
Dr. Vicki’s response: Congratulations on making the decision to have a child! Being parents is about the best experience a loving couple can have together. As for being an older parent, it may surprise you to know that about...
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The Wall Street Journal printed a book excerpt from the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother this weekend, suggesting that Chinese mothers are “superior” to Western mothers because Chinese mothers’ solution to “substandard performance” is “always to excoriate,...
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More than two is a crowd!
Dear Dr. Vicki:
We share a bed with our kids. We have a 7 yrs. old girl, a 3 yrs. old boy and a 1 yr. old boy. What bothers me is that our 3 yrs. old boy exhibits some sexual acts. Is it alright? We make love as discrete as possible but we are not sure if they had seen what we’ve done. Are the scenes such as love making seen by babies will register to their mind unconsciously?...
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Tags: child, Child Development, children, families, Family, family bed, kid, kids, kids sleeping with parents, marital relationship, marriage, self-calming
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