How can you, as a parent, help comfort your child’s broken heart after they go through a breakup? Few experiences are as emotionally intense for teens as a broken heart. Teen breakups can be difficult to navigate for children, and also their parents. As a parent, it’s important to know how to respond. In this
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Most of us spend a significant amount of time in our vehicles, so making sure our children are safe along the way is very important. Car seats play a huge role in protecting children. However, to be most effective parents need to follow the recommended car seat guidelines. Dr. Lisa Ryan explains these guidelines and
How to help children get a sense of value and money without making them either spoiled or deprived? How to raise a non-materialistic kid seems almost impossible in our current culture. We try to raise non-materialistic kids but advertisements and stores send the opposite message to our children. To help illustrate how to teach your
Understanding that behavior problems don’t just happen goes a long way in being able to manage and address your child’s behavior healthily and effectively. Some type of event precedes behaviors. A child hitting their sibling is because that sibling hit them first, poked them, took away their toy, or said something to them. When you
Many parents end up focusing more on their child’s academic achievements than they do on their emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence — or “EQ,” as it’s sometimes called — is made up of five components: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills and intrinsic motivation, according to psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, who popularized the concept in his
Inti St. Clair via Getty ImagesThere’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest dogs can detect something is different when a familiar person is pregnant, even early on in the pregnancy. Dogs can be very sensitive creatures. They often have strong reactions to changes in their environments and the people in their lives, and have
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many parents have already faced a major challenge: homeschooling their children while working full-time. As back-to-school season starts gearing up, many parents are getting updates from their school districts on what classes may look like this fall. But what if you’re a parent who also teaches in a classroom? Those
Tom Werner via Getty Images“EQ” might be the most important skill parents can help teach their children. Our kids have had an exceptionally bad hand dealt to them the past few months. They’ve been separated from their entire social structure, their classrooms and all sense of normalcy. And parents have certainly struggled (to put it
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, my husband and I took our exactly 1-month-old twins to the doctor for a routine checkup. It was a happy visit. While adding twins to our family had been exhausting and chaotic, I felt like we were managing OK, mainly because we had an abundance of family and community support.