January, 2009 Posts published in January, 2009
Single Parenting: Quality Time Parenting
Single parents searching for fun, inexpensive ways to make your parenting time memorable for your child may be easier than you think. Whether you have joint custody, full custody or non-custodial rights, it’s important to spend quality time with your child. Many children don’t care whether you’re rich and cool; they often just want to...
Cyberbullying and Electronic Bullying
According to Cyber Bullying.us, 33% of all youth report that they have been victims of cyberbullying. 41% of the victims tell no one. 17% of online user admit to bullying someone through computer or text messaging. What is Cyberbullying? Basically, cyberbullying and electronic bullying, as some like to call it, is the willful or intentional...
My Child Hates School: What Parents Can Do?
Does Your Child Hate School? It’s not uncommon for a child to say, “I hate school!” This comment may come after a child has successfully completed several years of school with no complaints. So, what happened? Why does any child come to the point where they claim that they do not want to go to...
Cancer Children: Nine Steps Schools Can Take To Help
Each year, tens of thousands of children are diagnosed with cancer. One of the best psychological and emotional treatments is to allow the child (if physically capable) to continue to attend school. Allowing the child to be with his or her peers, to continue on with a daily routine and schedule, will often lead to...
My Child Has Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, “Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children between infancy and age 15. Approximately 10,730 new cases of pediatric cancer are expected to be diagnosed in children 0–14 years of age in 2008. Among the major types of childhood cancers, leukemias (blood cell cancers) and...
School Anxiety: Questions & Answers From A Counselor
The following school anxiety counseling question comes from an actual ScottCounseling, Ask A Counselor question. This parenting question and ScottCounseling response may help you parent a child suffering from school anxiety attacks. Parents Background Information: My 11 year old son, Tony, started Middle School this year. He has always had some self- esteem problems and...
My Child Has No Friends: What Can I Do?
Helping Your Child Make Friends There are many reasons why a child at school may lack friends. Some children are shy. Even around children they are accustom to being with, they may hesitate to comment or participate. Highly intelligent or children who strive to appear intelligent may also struggle to make friends. Children who are...
How Should I Respond When My Child Says “I Hate You!”
When Kids Say “I Hate You!” What Should Parents Do? Those three words from your child can cause you to feel hurt, fear, frustration, anger and sadness. These words when shared by a child toward the parent may humble even the most experienced parent. And if you’ve yet to experience those words, the dreaded “I...
Why Children Steal & What Parents Should Do?
Parents should become concerned when there child takes something that does not belong to him or her. This concern or worry about what reason(s) the child took something without permission often makes the parent begin to wonder if their child is lacking something in their life that the parent may have missed. First off, it’s normal for a...
Energy Drinks: Safe or Not Safe?
In the past two years, over 500 new energy drinks have come on the market worldwide. Roland Griffiths, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claims that some energy drinks have the same amount of caffeine as 14 cans of soda. Energy drink companies competing for the monetary...
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