A recent study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies suggests that it’s not whether we’re parents – but how we parent – that may be an important factor to consider. According to researchers at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, women who engage in “intensive parenting” are likely to experience negative mental health outcomes like stress and depression. The authors focused on women because they tend to be much more…
Can Parenting Style Impact Your Well-Being
Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
The Experience in Japan In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, (Stigler is now a professor of psychology at UCLA), he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class. “The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper,” Stigler…
My Teen Says All the Other Parents Are Allowing This
My daughter is 14 years old. She was recently invited to a party at a friend’s house. The problem is that I don’t really know the parents or the other kids very well. I am also worried about the level of supervision. The girl throwing the party has older siblings who will probably be there so there will be teens of all ages there which increases the chance…
Two Tongues Can Be Too Much Too Soon
Academic urges one language at a time for toddlers if parents can’t speak two well. Reasons for “One Language At A Time For Toddlers” 1. Parents should avoid teaching their toddlers two languages simultaneously if they themselves cannot speak both languages well. 2. Babies raised in homes where two or more languages were spoken may sometimes appear to have learning disorders, leaving parents puzzled and…
Tips For Improving Your Teen’s Sleep Schedule
Many parents wrestle with helping their teenagers get enough sleep, especially when high school classes start before dawn. Battling early school start times and teens’ changing body clocks, which pressure them to fall asleep later, can be overwhelming for parents. Few teens want parents setting their bedtimes. Most of the adolescents resisted their parent’s requests to stop texting or Web-surfing late at night. And don’t fall for the…
The Key To Raising Confident Kids
As parents, we believe we’re meant to instill confidence in our children. That building self-esteem is the number one priority of raising, and educating, children, and that regular praising will encourage them to believe in themselves. And if kids believe in themselves, the thinking goes, they will take risks, meet goals, and generally achieve great things. Praise might actually undermine kids’ success Except it turns…
Adolescence and the Teenage Crush
Teenage crushes have a significant role to play in the journey of adolescence. Consider crushes of two kinds – identity crushes and romantic crushes. In both cases, the teenager feels smitten by a compelling person who captivates their attention for good and ill. Identity crushes are formed by finding someone they much admire, want to become like, and treat as a leader or model they are eager to…
How To Cultivate A Discipline From Childhood
Self-discipline is a vital quality to have if you want to be successful in the things you attempt during life. What we often don’t realize, however, is that we learn the skills for self-discipline during childhood. Here are some ways that you can cultivate personal discipline from your childhood experiences. Take the carrot and stick approach As a child, you were no doubt rewarded for…
5 Strategies To Help Your Child Combat ADHD
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly referred to as ADHD, is a neurobiological disorder characterized by developmentally inappropriate impulsivity, inattention, and hyperactivity. People with ADHD can be very successful in their life. For example, some well-known people have been diagnosed with ADHD such as Albert Einstein (scientist), Dwight D. Eisenhower (US President), Hillary Duff (actress/singer), Whoopi Goldberg (actress), Jason Kidd (basketball player), and Suzanne Somers (actress). However, without appropriate…
Battles Over Homework: Advice For Parents
Many parents accept “battles over homework” with their children as an unavoidable consequence of responsible parenting. These battles, however, rarely result in improved learning or performance in school. More often than not, battles over homework lead to vicious cycles of nagging by parents and avoidance or refusal by children, with no improvement in a child’s school performance — and certainly no progress toward what should…