How to Build and Maintain a Great Relationship with your Daughter

The bond between the mother and her daughter is so powerful that nothing can destroy it. Mothers and daughters experience deep emotions, both positive and negative, in their intergenerational relationship. It remains stronger than any other type of relations among the generation. The love between you and your child is immeasurable, but that does not mean that the relationship cannot be improved. As a mom, you can strengthen the bond that you already have. There are many things you can do to make a positive change.

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.

6 Things Healthy Families Have In Common

Family: to most people, the group of people they share their lives with are some of the most important people in the world. And for good reason; your family is where your roots lie. It’s from these people that you form your first and most lasting impressions about so many things. Your family provides the building blocks of your very character: your ideals; your morals; your goals – the things that matter most in life.

Preparing to Come out to your Parents

Struggling with your sexuality can be such a difficult thing to deal with, and once you have made things a little clearer in your own mind, there is then the dreaded conversation where you need to come out to your parents. The thought of this alone can be scary, and not something that you’d particularly look forward to doing – so it’s important you are in the right frame of mind before you do so.

5 Tips to Helping your Child Study at Home

Studying is one of the hardest habits to instill in children, but it is something crucial to their academic and professional formation. You as a parent should also study up on how to be able to help them to get and improve these qualities. The encouragement that you give to studying habits and the techniques that you will be using to do it are things you should think long and hard about. Not sure where to start? The following tips may be of much help to helping your young student:

Laser Tag: A Game of Bonding With Your Kids

Although it is entertaining when you legitimately lose a game of Candyland to your three year-old, the excitement that you remember from childhood really comes alive when the older kids begin playing laser tag.

Parenting Challenges You Have Ahead of You

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world, and there’s no manual that tells you how to do it right. You have to work that out for yourself as you go along. However, we can help you with more tips and details on some of the challenges that you have ahead of you. It’s best to understand which challenges every parent has to deal with at one time or other because that way you can prepare yourself.

The Importance of Sleep for Babies and Parents

by Jenna Brown

Sleep is something most of us wish we could get more of on a daily basis. As more things are added to the to-do list we tend to sacrifice shuteye. Research is now showing that could be a huge mistake.
For hundreds of years, health experts have tried to unravel the mystery of sleep. More precisely, they’ve tried to nail down why people need sleep and what occurs while we slumber. What they have discovered is that sleep is essential for our health at all stages of life. For babies, sleep can influence their physical growth, weight and much more.

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!

Simple Yet Delicious Dinner Ideas For Kids

Don’t you just hate it when your kids don’t eat the foods you serve? Perhaps they don’t like to eat what we grownups eat. Perhaps they just wanted to have “kid-friendly” food choices. Regardless, it is important to ensure our kids get the nutrition needed to help them grow strong. Food choices are always a problem, especially for those kids who have a sensitive taste. When it’s dinner time, make sure to prepare these foods that they will love, without sacrificing the nutritional values.

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.

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.

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.

What Mothers of Special Needs Children Want You to Know

Motherhood is something that many women dream of, even from an early age. We dream of having children, what we will name them, and how we will raise them. What no one plans for is a special needs child; how would you even plan for one?

I do the usual things, such as putting up baby gates to block off sections of the house to keep my child safe, play with them and engage them in activities, and I care for them when they’re sick.

The only difference between our kids is that my child needs more attention and requires specialized knowledge about them and their condition.

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.