March, 2008 Archive Entries:
Demanding Child
Do you have a demanding child?
It’s not unusual for Children to begin to make some kind of demanding remarks between the ages of two and four years of age. This behavior is often a test given by a child to test parent limits and boundaries. Children who are demanding often are seeking control or may be facing some stress in their life. Parents who […]
Car Rules For Children
Do your children know the rules for the road?
School bus drivers have set rules that the school children must follow for the safety of all who ride the bus. Elementary students are taught these rules during the school day. If a student does not follow these rules, they are told that they may have to have an assigned seat, be suspended from the bus […]
Death: Helping Children Cope With Grief and Loss
This article will help you explore what you and others in your life may be going through. We the people, who live in the United States, are often poorly prepared to deal with a loss. We seldom, if ever, discuss the inevitable death that will take place for all living creatures. We don’t begin to think about loosing a job, a friend, a pet […]
Cyberbullying: 6 Things You Need to Know About
By Featured Author: Vanessa Van Petten
Children are using the computer to bully others…
The Internet has changed the playground-bully into the in-my-bedroom-bully. It’s true, the line between school life and home life is gone. Kids can no longer leave the social pressures, cliques, bullies, snoodiness and the other highlights of adolescence at school.
Now the social scene follows students home, into their bedrooms, and can […]
Drinking Prevention Needed in Grade School: Study of Use and Abuse
Is your 6th grader involved with alcohol?
It’s a commonly known fact that teenage drinking across the country has many parents, educators and prevention specialist concerned. What is not commonly known is the growing number of elementary children beginning to use alcohol. Recently, Reuters published an article by author, Amy Norton, who shares statistics that indicate as many as 700 out of 4000 sixth graders […]
Center For Disease Control Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease
Nation news reports on on four major news networks and the popular cable news networks all shared the following information regarding teenage girls in the United States:
1 in 4 Teenage Girls has a Sexually Transmitted Disease
Two days later, the story was gone! In the meantime, 3.2 million female teenage girls in the U.S. are carrying a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Is your child affected? […]
New Study Shows “Tweens” Favor Inhalants to Get High
Study Shows Youngsters Use Inhalants as “Gateway” to Other Illicit Drugs
Author, Kelly Colihan, shares some alarming trends in preteen and teen use of inhalants ( Drugs administered by breathing in its vapors. Most inhalants are organic solvents such as glue and paint thinner or anesthetic gases) as “gateway” drug to other illegal and illicit drugs. Ms. Colihan and other child behavior experts share […]
How to get flu vaccine to children en masse
Protecting your child from the flu…
As more and more parents share their growing concerns of influenza, also known as the “flu,” some hospitals and clinics throughout the United States have period of time when they are inundated with parents seeking the flu shot for themselves and their children. Some studies indicate that as many as thirty thousand U.S. citizens die each year from influenza. […]
Top 10 Ways to Be Happy at Home
You may be wondering why this article is included on a self-help site. Well, being happy at home is “self-helping.” Parenting children is a challenging task. As a parent you are continually facing daily challenges, decision-making and problem solving. This article was written to help you to begin to reflect on your day as a parent. Even though you have
continuous concerns for […]
What Causes Autism?
There are many articles and books written on the causes of autism. Many are written on a medical level that makes them difficult to read or understand. Research journal articles are also often difficult to decipher and navigate through the data. Child development, child psychology and child behavior experts share common ground in their discussions of autism and the challenges facing parents today. Cross […]
