What Are Some Good Ideas for a Playroom/Craft Room for Children?

 

When you have children in your home, it is important to designate an area where they will play and use their toys without disrupting your activities. Hence, you have to come up with a creative space, a playroom, where they will spend most of their day creating and playing.

Why should you encourage your child to wear watches?

 

Attention Parents: It's time to encourage your child to wear watches. When you think about the benefits of wearing a watch, there are many. A watch can help teach your child responsibility and punctuality. It will also ensure that their needs for exercise and socialization are met as well as their need for good sleep habits. So what do you say? Are you ready to give up on that old boys watches collecting dust in the drawer? 

Winter Stroll Must-Haves for Twins

Twins can be a significant problem for parents when it comes to taking them around. This can be a problem even if there aren't any twins. Instead, toddlers can continue sticking up with their stroller days. This can cause a major headache for parents, but it can be easily solved by getting a double stroller. This is a perfect solution for multi-child households since it provides a lot of conveniences.

How to help your Child who is having problems in School

Children can display a wide range of behaviour at school, ranging from rather normal disruptive chats to gritty fighting and name-calling on the playground. The main reasons behind these types of behaviour stem from a kid having strong feelings and require assistance with getting those sorted out.

Delicious Cakes to Make First Birthday of Your Baby a Memorable Affair!

The first birthday is always a great and memorable affair for you as well as for your child. You must have seen your albums consisting your birthday photographs. Now, it’s your turn to fill your albums with your child’s first birthday celebration.

How to Pack Stylish Yet Light on Your Next Family Holiday

Packing for a family holiday can be difficult, as you need to pack not just for you, but possibly for your partner and kids too. This means leaving enough room for everything whilst ensuring everyone gets what they want in their suitcase. If you’re struggling to choose what you should pack without going over your luggage weight, check out these few tips to ensure you and your family always look great without any extra baggage fees.

How Your Kids Are Exposed To Pornography

With massive growth in digital technologies and the paradigm shift in our modish lifestyles, kids today are at the risk of being seriously exposed to online threats and dangers like cybercrimes and child pornography. Whether it is online flirting, social media chats, gaming or strangers outside the school, all these aspects can do enough harm to cause spiritual damage to your family especially the kids. As a parent, you should keep a vigilant eye on your kid's activities to protect them. Today, I will discuss five ways how child pornography may enter your home unnoticed. These should be in your knowledge, so you can mitigate the inherent risks wisely.

How to Help Your Kids to Succeed with their Studies

Books, blogs and parenting websites are filled with tips on how to spend time with the kids to help with their studies. For most of us, we know this is easier said than done. With the busy lives we have, and the multiple functions we handle with respect to our different roles, it might be quite a difficult objective, trying to engage our kids in their studies.

Online Educational Activities for Kids Stuck in the House

By Jenny Wise

Being stuck in the house because of heavy snow or frigid temperatures is tough for kids. And it’s also tough for you because you’re stuck in the house with them. For the first few days, they may be fine staying in the house reading books, playing video games, or watching TV. But after a while, cabin fever sets in. Then you start hearing the dreaded, “I’m bored. There’s nothing to do!” When you hear those words, don’t panic. There’s plenty of things to do if you have internet access.

Best 5 Ways to Encourage Your Child to Explore the Outdoors

Living in such a technology-based world, it has been a daunting job for parents to take their kids outdoors. Kids nowadays are more interested in playing computer and smartphone base games and watching videos other than exploring the outdoors and befriend with the same age.

Anyway, if you are one of those parents struggling hard to encourage your child to explore the outdoors, you can try the following hacks that most of the conscious parents found helpful for their kids. Let's get started without delay!

The Best Developmental Games For the Child

As parents, we all want our children to grow up into successful individuals who can perceive the world from a balanced angle. Well, to achieve this, a lot of foundational training is needed to improve the minds of your kids from their infant age up to their teenage years. This exercise involves educational games for kids, and it exists in different kinds for different ages.

8 Healthy LunchBox Snacks for Hungry Children

When it comes to packed lunches, it’s important to choose foods, which will fill up and fuel your child and ensure they have the energy and concentration levels to get the most out of their afternoons at school. Kids often ask for treats, which are not always the healthiest options and it can be a battle trying to get them to eat healthy foods, but there are plenty of tasty alternatives to junk food, which are suitable for lunchboxes and snacks when they get back from school claiming that they’re absolutely starving! Here are 8 ideas for healthy lunchbox snacks:

These 10 Foods are Terrible for Your Child's Body - Infographic

It's a common complaint that kids these days just aren't going outside and getting enough exercise. While that's true (largely in part to their growing tablet addictions), parents also play an immensely important role in their child's health. The food that you pack in their lunch bags or put on their dinner plates is becoming increasingly important to fighting the obesity epidemic among children.

Here's an infographic (courtesy of homeremediesforlife.com) with 10 foods that parents should seriously reconsider serving their children, along with some helpful alternatives:

How to Help Your Child Learn to Read

We all have heard that - Keep reading is the only way to keep learning. And as parents it’s very important and at the same time very difficult to make your child learn to read, for the reason that kids are temperamental. Being a parent you are the very first teacher of your toddler. Before learning all the worldly things, parents are the one who germinate the seeds of enthusiasm to read and learn and set the foundation of craving for more learning, understanding and exploring.

Should I Help My Kids With Their Assignments?

If your children struggle with their homework do you help them or let them figure things out on their own? Psychology and education research suggests that it depends on how you become involved as a parent. When the children feel like homework has value and complete it on their own, it seems more interesting and therefore leads to greater achievement.

5 Amazing Benefits of Reading Out Loud To Children

I have heard some people say, ‘oh she is a natural’, when they see or listen to a child reading so effortlessly. But the truth is that few people, if any are, born with the natural gift of effective reading.

Activities like reading, writing and comprehension are matters that are systematically cultivated over time, until one becomes proficient in it. Therefore, if you want your child to be one of those whose reading ability is admired by all, start reading aloud to them every day, starting from today.

Planning the Perfect Milestone Birthday for Your Kid

The first birthday after enrolling in school, turning 13, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, sweet 16 and finally becoming an “adult” at 18 are all milestones that many kids want to celebrate. As proud parents, we want to celebrate too. There’s nothing more rewarding than celebrating the life that you created each time they reach another milestone.

5 Tips To Help Parents Improve Their Children’s Academic Performance

By Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Parental involvement plays a huge role in improving the child’s academic potential. This involvement goes beyond just supervising homework, it requires proper revision, listening and even probing. It is no secret that parents are important contributors to the formation and maturation of a child’s character, confidence, creativity and discipline. These virtues add to the child’s academic and individual well-being.

6 Unique Birthday Surprises That You Would Love to Plan for Someone Special

Excitement is at its peak when one’s birthday is around the corner. It is not only a day to celebrate, throw random parties, receive gifts, but also a day where you welcome another year with joy and enticement. Also, the special day in the life of a special person holds much importance when it is celebrated in a unique way amidst his favorite people. Therefore, in case, you are in the list of his favorite people, and you consider him special too, you need to go that extra yard to make his birthday worth remembering.

Travel with a Baby Like a Pro, Even If It Is Your First Time

By Korie Cantor

Too scared to travel with your toddler? Frequent feedings, midnight awakenings, diaper changes, and hormone imbalance stopping you from traveling? Feel like we just read your mind? Turns out, most new parents feel this way.

While this is understandable, life should not and need not stop with the coming of a baby in your life. In fact, it should get more adventurous and beautiful with the tiny tot around.