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  1. The Essential Parenting Advices (Part 2)

    The Essential Parenting Advices (Part 2)

    The introduction to essential parenting advices can be found here and now we will continue the next point or rule of good parenting.

    Deciding what kind of parenting style you will use requires good consideration based on children’s age. Try to adapt with child’s development. In each development, the behavior will be different from other stages, thus you need to use different method too.

    Children who are more than 10 years old would be more irritable. They are also argumentative, and it happens especially when they have problem with school grades. This situation requires parents to be aware. Instead of pushing the child more, it will be better to understand the condition thus the child will not have any problem with their self-esteem.

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  2. The Essential Parenting Advices (Part 1)

    The Essential Parenting Advices (Part 1)

    Parent-children relationship is not always going well and such condition (more often than not) causing various problems at home, including behavior problems. In this point, you need to pay attention seriously. Here are some essential parenting advices to consider.

    Parents need to learn more about good parenting since it is truly helpful in fostering many good things for children such as cooperation, kindness, cheerfulness, self-reliance, honesty, etc. Besides, good parenting is required to promote intellectual curiosity and protect children from developing the disorders, including depression and anxiety.

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  3. Dealing with Disrespectful Children (Part 2)

    Dealing with Disrespectful Children (Part 2)

    On part 1, you have already read the basic things you need to know about how to deal with disrespectful children. Now we will continue with the next points you need to consider very well.

    In some situation, you probably find that arguing is an inevitable thing. When you try to give advice or say something your child does not want to hear, he or she will commonly react by saying “It’s not fair” or even argue that what they did is acceptable for other parents. Better do not give any depressing comment. Instead, tell them that you are not their friend’s parent and you have your own opinion. Do not let too long argumentation. End it quickly.

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  4. Dealing with Disrespectful Children (Part 1)

    Dealing with Disrespectful Children (Part 1)

    Dealing with children’s behavior is not always easy. One of the examples is dealing with disrespectful children who sometimes act like brats. You need to know several things regarding such problem, including the cause and solution.

    The first thing you need to always remember is that it needs time. It’s impossible to change everything overnight, right? Knowing the cause is the number one important thing you need to do. This initial part is (believe it or not), the most difficult thing.

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  5. The Benefits of Family Gardening for Kids

    The Benefits of Family Gardening for Kids

    Gardening is an interesting activity done on Sundays or holidays, and many people make it to be their best “me time” activity idea too. What about you, Moms? If you love gardening, now it’s time for you to stop do that alone. Involving the kids in such activity offers some great benefits. What are they?

    Caring for a tiny seed into a plant requires time and effort. This thing is a good point to let the kids learning about patience and responsibility. They will need to wait day by day the plant grows and see the amazing things happen. Seed grows to be small plant with leaves, then flowers, fruits, etc. Sure, raising something beautiful will bring happiness too.

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  6. Let’s Read More, Kids: Choose the Right Books for Three to Five Years Old Preschoolers

    Let’s Read More, Kids: Choose the Right Books for Three to Five Years Old Preschoolers

    Reading is a good habit which needs to be introduced to young generation, even since they are in their early ages. Absolutely, the key is to choose the right books. Having the suitable reading materials based on child’s age is the important part of their learning process. So, what is the best book for your little preschoolers?

    If you are suggested to choose the books with only few words per page and contains the introduction to many things around for 1-2 years old babies, now you need to find the books which contain stories for preschoolers. To make reading activities more interesting, it is also good to choose the books which stories are similar to them.

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  7. Baby Teeth: The Order of Appearance

    Baby Teeth: The Order of Appearance

    Your baby starts teething and it makes you happy as well as upset at the same time. Sure, this stage makes every mom so upset for some reasons. Drooling, loosing appetite, fussiness and some other symptoms are only few of examples. Apart from those symptoms, now let’s talk about the order of teeth appearance.

    The appearance of primary teeth could be in any order and may not the same between one child and another. However, there is a general pattern we can take a note as a clue. The process will be generally started from the bottom.

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  8. Tips to Promote Mental Health and Well Being in Kids

    Tips to Promote Mental Health and Well Being in Kids

    Children growth consists of many different aspects which should maintained very well to make sure that those aspects can develop perfectly. In general, there are two major things every parent needs to concern, which are mental health and well-being. How to make those two balanced? Here are the simple tips you can follow:

    Role model: Parents should be the role model for the children. Parents should be able to create and maintain good mental health habits. Communication is truly essential as well. Talking about the activities and problems the children may face and experience at school is one of the good examples to consider. 

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  9. Babies are Smarter than We Think. Really?

    Babies are Smarter than We Think. Really?

    Babies are the cute creature whose smile can melt every mother’s heart.  However, some of you probably never realize that they know something more than we can imagine behind their innocent face. O really? Here are five things which will answer this question:

    Babies cannot talk. They don’t communicate their feeling through words. The surprising fact is that actually they can feel your fake smile. They know when you try hard to put a mask on your face by smiling to them while in fact you are very sad due to negative experience you get or the problems you currently have. It happens when they are about 18 months old.

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  10. Short and Sweet Baby Girl Name Ideas

    Short and Sweet Baby Girl Name Ideas

    Choosing the name for beloved baby girls will always be an interesting thing, especially if you already have long list of name ideas in your hand. But some of you are probably still want to complete the list or even haven’t got any idea yet. Don’t worry, because now you will read some short and sweet baby girl name ideas.

    Anyway, there are few reasons why choosing short and sweet name for your baby is a great idea. First is because you need to do this, especially if you want to use your family name as last name and that name is quite difficult to pronounce. In this case, you need to choose simple first name which your child even can read and write it easily too later!

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