developmental stages
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...
Bullying
Bully Statistics According to the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, nearly half of all school-aged children will become a victim of bullying. Ten percent of surveyed victims state that they are bullied on a regular basis. One research study (Craig and Pepler’s), found that one incident of playground bullying takes place every seven minutes....
Teen Dating Abuse & Date Rape
Over 50% of high school students report knowing of another student who was in an abusive relationship. Date rape, alcohol related criminal sexual conduct and unwanted sexual advances are on the list of student concerns. What’s more difficult to detect and survey students about is the emotional abuse that occurs in teen dating. ScottCounseling recognizes...
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...
Teaching Diversity: Introduction
Janet Gonzalez-Mena is an internationally recognized expert on the role of culture and child development. Many parenting child experts would agree with this author’s guidelines, helpful hints and encouragement for parents to begin to hold discussions with children at an early age on this important topic. This article will get you started, “A Place to...
Handling Holiday Stress
Holidays can be a stressful and difficult time for many individual and families. Family traditions and gatherings bring about excitement and joy for many individuals. But for some, the holidays bring extra stress and exhaustion. ScottCounseling recognizes child psychology author, Christopher Williams, for supplying the reader with some helpful holiday “stress-release” tips. Sleigh bells...
Shopping With Your Child
Parents searching for helpful hints to make your shopping experience with your child an enjoyable one will find this article to be very helpful. Children can and will learn from their parents while shopping. The opportunity to learn how to make decisions, how to select the right product and how to use money wisely can...
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...
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...
At The Hospital: Helping My Child Cope
For many children, just mentioning the word doctor or hospital can cause stress. Children remember their first experiences getting their required school shots, annual physicals and routine check-ups. Many hospitals have trained full time social workers, communication experts and child psychology and development experts on staff to help parents and children learn coping methods to...
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