Archive for March, 2009

When children are in school they always need help with their homework. And you as parents need to act as a backbone and support them throughout. You should definitely help children with their homework.

In the process of helping children with their homework, most of the parents do a blunder. They themselves do the homework for their kids. As parents, our basic aim should be to help kids in understand how to do homework.

You should help in understanding the instructions and guide them in throughout. Tell them the process of completing their homework. You should guide them how to answer the questions. In order to motivate them to complete the homework, offer kids with prize.
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Soon spring break is approaching and it’s again the time of the year when children are going to stay back home. This situation puts a lot of parents under stress but you need not worry any more. Here are few tips which can guide you to keep children busy during holidays:

Engage them in kitchen: Call them in kitchen with you to help you. Ask them to do easier but engaging stuff like washing dishes, arranging table, stirring the food. During this time, you can also educate them about importance of healthy food.

Arrange art and craft competition: Organise a small art and craft competition as it will help you to keep children busy during holidays. Again, it won’t only enhance their skills in art and craft about boost their creativity.
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Should you punish your child for lying or not has become a very concerning issue among parents? While deciding about punishment, parents should take into consideration whether your child lies occasionally or is it his habit. You should define punishments for levels of lying. In addition, as a parent, you need to decide a punishment depending on whether its first time lying or not.

But, you can always avoid the situation where you will need to punish your child for lying. You should talk to you child regularly about honesty. As parents, you need to tell to be honest in their life, home, school and friendship.

Often, children think that lies and stories are the same thing. Explain to them the difference between story, lie and tall tail. In addition, tell them that lies hurt people.
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Teen pregnancy is growing concern among parents and government these days. Stopping teenagers to get between the age of 15-19 is one of the main agendas of associations dealing with the teenagers. But, as a parent, how to deal with teen pregnancy is a bigger issue. Let’s have a look at few things you can do to cope with the situation:

Visit a doctor: Don’t hide your child at home. Take your girl to the doctor for proper check up in order to deal with teen pregnancy. Doctor would definitely keep it confidential and help you choose the best option for an ectopic case.

Take a mutual decision: Don’t force your decision on your child or doctor. Dealing with teen pregnancy can be very tedious. Take a mutual decision whether it is to raise the baby, give it for adoption or terminate the pregnancy.
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