January, 2008 Posts published in January, 2008
Specialization in Youth Sports Can Be Dangerous
Dangers of Playing The Same Sport It only makes sense… the more one uses the same pencil over and over, the more it wears down. Our human body does the same thing; it wears down. There is a difference, however, between the body use and pencil use. When given an appropriate period of rest the...
Sports Parents Who Lose Control
Angry Parents At Sporting Events No parent ever wanted to get their child involved in sports so that he or she could become the center piece of the game. Parenting child development experts like Dr. Anthony Fiore, author of this article, encourage parents to stay in control of their emotions before, during and after the...
Children and Stress: Are You Pushing Your Child Too Hard?
As childhood stress, anxiety and depression appears to be on the rise in the U.S., parents are beginning to search for answers for to reduce stress. Author, Mary Longo provides parents with some real answers for the signs and symptoms for childhood stress. She also asks parents this question: Are You Pushing Your Child Too...
Discipline Guidelines and Parent Child Relationships
All parents often search for some helpful hints to improve their relationship with their child before, during and after a discipline issue arises. ScottCounseling established some helpful parenting guidelines that most parents can agree upon. Parenting and child development specialist recommend that parents meet often to discuss expectations, values and family guidelines with their child...
Unplugging Power Struggles
Larry loves his child and only wants what’s best for her. But he finds himself in many power struggles not because he’s overly controlling or malicious, but because he’s inexperienced. This first-time parent doesn’t know how to go about guiding and influencing his child positively, so out of desperation he resorts to power plays which...
Seven Healthy Ways to Praise
Dending on the child development or parenting author that you follow, you may hear a variety or mixed opinions on “praising” a child for an approprite action as a positive parenting strategy or a harmful parenting strategy. Author, Jan Faull, presents some thoughts and suggestions that both sides can agree upon. Children need positive attention...
Ten Keys to Successful Parenting
International Network For Children and Families has successfully provided many concerned parents with outstanding, thought provoking parenting tips in the area of childhood discipline, child development, child consequences and responsibility training techniques that gets positive results. Parenting is not about becoming your child’s friend, but your child’s educator and life-long guide. It is important that...
Nine Things To Do Instead of Spanking
There has been much controversy over the question of whether spanking a child is an acceptable and appropriate parenting discipline technique. The editors of ScottCounseling encourages parents to consider this article as one positive point view that may provide some alternative solutions to spanking your child. Author, Kathryn Kvols, claims “research confirms what many...
Children’s Feelings
Counselors will share with you that one difficult communication technique that they have to employ to get a child to identify how he or she is feeling about a situation is word identification in selecting a feeling. Feeling posters with pictures of various feelings allow children to point or select a picture that identifies the...
Teenage Development
This article was produced by the International Network for Children and Families who promote and assist parents and families in the development of healthy children. Child Development is one of the important topics published by ScottCounseling. After reading this article, select other child development article published within this Website. We need to better understand adolescent...
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