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Becoming educated on the developmental needs and growth patterns your child goes through will make you a better parent. ScottCounseling.com is here to provide education on this important topic.

Helping Your Child Get A Good Night Sleep

Getting a good night sleep is just as important as eating the right foods. Sleep allows our body a period of time to restore. Sleep helps reduce stress and provides the body and mind a period of time to heal. The National Sleep Foundation reports that the average toddler gets three to six hours less sleep […]

What’s A Good Age To Start Dating?

Most of the dating articles that you will find out there has to do with teen dating. What many parents are discovering is that younger children are talking to each other about dating too. Parenting and child development experts on beginning to recognize this trend and new parenting tips are now coming online. ScottCounseling recognizes one such article written by author, Julie Baumgardner, […]

Selecting Age Appropriate Gifts

Looking for safe, age-appropriate gifts for children? Recognizing the developmental stages that a child goes through and determining what gift fits a child’s developmental and behavior stage is important. Research done by The Journal of Experimental Child Psychology indicates that there can be a negative impact and disappointment for children who receive a gift a gift that is not age-appropriate. The following guidelines are some simple […]

Five Steps to Take if Your Child is Being Bullied

If your child comes to you because a bully is bothering him or her, you need to pay close attention to the problem. The worst thing you can do is ignore it. Too often parents feel children and teens need to ‘work things out’ on their own. While parenting child does include promoting self-reliance, parents need to assist the […]

Getting Children To Eat Properly

Parenting children to eat a proper diet is not easy. Especially with all the fast food advertising our children experience on a day to day basis. One national news report after another is reporting that our children are eating the wrong foods. Childhood obesity is a national concern. Many research studies coming from our college […]

Ten Reasons to Respond to a Crying Child

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Children’s Anger and Tantrums

Most of us can share a story when we were shopping in a store and witnessing a young child throwing a temper tantrum. Child psychology and child behavior specialist agree that letting your emotions “go” can be healthy, but at what developmental stage in life is it inappropriate? Parent child development experts, R.J. Fetsch and B. Jacobson share some of their insights […]

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 and how missed expectations will be handled . […]

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 in […]

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 we discipline in a way that teaches responsibility by […]


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