Children
Parenting Tips: Teaching Your Child To Walk
Exercise is essentially important to the health of the infant. Its first exercise, of course, will be in the nurse’s arms. After a month or two, when it begins to sleep less during the day, it will delight to roll and kick about on the sofa: it will thus [read more...]
To Believe or Not to Believe Your Household Help
What do you do if your nanny or housekeeper tells you that she must leave the country to visit a dying relative?
The first thing you need to do is find out if that relative is really dying. Okay, that was very cynical, but let’s face it, how many [read more...]
What Instrument Should Your Child Start On?
When you are deciding what instruments to buy for your child, you are facing a very large dilemma. You want to make sure they get instruments that will nurture their creative side, but you don’t want to get them something that is going to be so complicat [read more...]
What Equipment is Used for Different Types of Therapy in Children?
There are many reasons as to why children may need physical therapy. It could be because they have cerebral palsy and they need physical therapy to help them move their bodies easier or perhaps they broke a leg, or they may have weak muscles somewhere in their [read more...]
Bullying: From The Blacktop To The Desktop
Bullying is not just about lunch money anymore.
When I was in school bullies were the mean kids on the blacktop. They were the ones waiting after school to beat up on another kid that was usually no match for their size and strength. But there was at le [read more...]
What To Look For When Getting A Barbie Dollhouse
Everyone needs a home even if this is just for the doll. This is a better place to put the toy after playing with it so this can easily be picked up when the little girl wants to get it again.
Two of the major dolls fighting for the hearts of little gir [read more...]
3 Reasons Why Your Child Needs Strong Memory Skills
For some kids it causes frustration. For others it causes despair. And for others it is plain hopeless.
What ever the circumstances, there is one important thing to know about memorizing. Your child needs to be good at it if they want to succeed in scho [read more...]
Help Your Child Learn And Finish Your To-Do List
By now you’ve heard we are a country in an educational crisis. One report in Time Magazine (April, 2006) says that one in four students will drop out before graduating high school. In Reader’s Digest (September, 2006) it’s reported that only [read more...]
Memorization vs. Critical Thinking. Who wins?
Recently, my son (in fifth grade) needed to discuss the events that lead to the American Revolution. He sat at home and went over all the major points:
- The Stamp Act of 1765
- Taxation without representation.
- The Boston Massacre of 1770 [read more...]
3 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Memory Through Visualization
Our brains love pictures. That’s why we remember movies more easily than books. But even with books, as we recall passages, we can see the action pass before our eyes.
The process of calling up images is called visualization and it’s a wonde [read more...]
