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Potty Training Tips for Parents
Potty training is a major developmental milestone for children. Some reach potty training readiness before others. Many parents experience anxiety over potty training problems. Before you begin a potty training program, know the facts.
Lily Morgan
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Tips for Packing School Lunches
Packing a healthy school lunch for your little one can be challenging - especially during those rushed mornings when everything seems to go wrong. If you give in and let them eat hot dogs and chocolate cake for a one day, you can look forward to endless days of begging for the same meal again. Preparation helps you stay strong in the face of time constraints and pleading eyes.
Lily Morgan
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Tips for Preventing Extra-Curricular Overload
Spend some time at an elementary school sporting event or a PTA meeting, and you hear someone complain about his or her child's overly busy schedule. Soccer practice, piano lessons, band practice, scholar challenge meets, church youth group, collecting money for UNICEF, Scout meetings, play practice, dance class, drama club meetings, 4-H...the list never ends! Parents complain about running themselves ragged transporting children from one event to the next, but it's the overloaded...
Lily Morgan
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How to Stop Your Child From Biting Others
Parents are often dismayed and outraged when a playmate at daycare or on the playground bites their child. If your child is the biter, feelings of despair, anger, and helplessness may lead to a series of ineffectual punishments and interventions. What can you do to discourage your little biter?
Lily Morgan
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Tips for Surviving Colic
If your little bundle of joy has colic, you may wonder if you will survive this trying time. The good news is that colic is not permanent. The crying will stop and your happy baby will return. Until then, those hours of endless crying try even the most devoted parents. Here are a few tips for keeping your sanity with a colicky baby.
Lily Morgan
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Tips for Setting Video Game Guidelines for Your Children
Setting guidelines for video games can be difficult. Most kids would play for hours - at least until the bathroom or the refrigerator calls them away. So how do you determine what is fair and safe for your child?
Lily Morgan
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Pool Safety - Easy As ABC
With summer, kids spend plenty of time outside enjoying the fresh air and freedom. One of the most popular summer activities is swimming, either in a lake, at the beach, or in a pool. Whether your pool is the neighborhood waterhole for the local kids or you have a neighbor who shares their pool with your children, you have to know the ABCs of pool safety. Even if you don't have kids but have a lot of kids in your neighborhood and a pool, being aware of the dangers is a must.
Lily Morgan
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How to Help Your Child Develop Self-Confidence
Self -confidence is a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, judgment, and value. Some children seem to be born with a lack of self-confidence. Others develop a low level of self-confidence from poor interactions with peers and family members. Regardless of the cause, you can help your child build a healthy level of self-confidence.
Lily Morgan
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Tips for Getting Your Preschooler to Bed
Parents often have a hard time understanding why their kids don't want to go to bed. At the end of the day, all mom and dad can think about is getting some sleep, but kids aren't built that way. Children are excited about the world and worried about missing out on the slightest event. It's rare that they're up past their bedtime to see what's going on, and children often wonder about the fun that goes on after they head to bed. There are several tips you can use to get...
Lily Morgan
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Five Winning Potty Training Tips
So, it's time to enter the world of potty training. As a parent, you are likely looking forward to non-diaper days with great anticipation. Your little guy or girl may not feel the same way. Potty training can be easy for some kids, but for most of them, it is a difficult concept to understand. Until this point, they have been allowed to take care of that need whenever they must without a special trip to the bathroom. Potty training requires patience and sometimes a...
Lily Morgan
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