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Teaching Your Children Money Management
Money & KidsChildren have vast amounts of purchasing power (billions) either directly or indirectly. Yet, even with all this influence and direct purchasing power, children are rarely taught about money… and more importantly the managing of money. I for one used to be as guilty as the next parent when it came to making it a point to teach my kids about money and money management skills.Read more…Improving Self-Confidence in Your Children - Learn to Detach
We all want to assist in improving self-confidence in our children. One of the greatest challenges in parenting is to know when to detach from our children. When to let them make their own mistakes and accept their own consequences.Read more…Child Support
Child support is defined in many countries as the ongoing obligation of a non-custodial parent to a custodial parent, guardian, or caregiver to make payment for the support of children who are the result of a relationship or marriage that has broken down. The conditions for child support are often settled as a part of the arrangements of a divorce, dissolution, annulment, or marital separation of a civil union. It may also be arranged as a supplement or in addition to alimony or spousal support.Read more…Child Support Calculators
Child support payments are now required by federal law to be set according to a guideline. These guidelines prevent the amount of child support being ordered in different courtrooms to differ greatly from each other. Most states have established formulas to be used in order to objectively determine the amount of support a non-custodial parent would pay a custodial parent.Read more…How to Work at Home with Young Children
One of the most difficult things about working at home can be dealing with the children. No matter how many times you explain the rules about when they can disturb you during working hours, you’re likely to hear, “Mom, he hit me!” “Did not!Read more…Parenting Help - The Battle to Pick
I was helping to paint in a friend’s house last weekend when her two boys came in. They started asking repeatedly if they could help paint (we were doing a technical, faux-finish) and she said, repeatedly, no. One of the boys proceeded to pick up a brush and start dabbing at the walls.Read more…Social Skills Training and Rewards: Five Tips to Tailor Your System to a Perfect Fit for Your Child
If you want to improve how your kids respond to your behavior change program, you may need to fine-tune your reward system. Here are six key questions to guide you to create rewards to a tailor-made fit to your child's individuality. 1. Do your rewards have enough novelty to keep your child motivated?Read more…Fit Families - Healthy Kids
It’s no secret that today’s generation of kids is more sedentary than past generations. Many children today spend a huge chunk of time sitting in front of televisions, computers, and video games. Physical education programs are being cut in schools across the country as schools try to squeeze in more time for academics.Read more…Hey Mom, I'm RICH!
He’s a sixteen year old high school Junior, attending two different summer sessions, and yet he has energy to burn, so his mom arranged for him to apply as a part-time bus boy at a local restaurant.He followed up as they had requested, but the once optimistic general manager seemed to be ducking his calls.So, without any further prompting, he set out in nearly 100 degree weather to find his own job, and within a half day he got one, passing out flyers for a local retail business.Read more…Five Things Your Kids Should Know About Saying "NO"
In today’s world kids are constantly bombarded with the idea they need to say no. Say no to drugs, no to alcohol. Say no to bad ideas from friends that do not have your best interest at heart.Read more…Back To School Safety Tips For Parents
As summer vacation comes to an end, parents and their children start preparing to go back to school. For children going to school for the first time and for their parents, this can be a scary experience.It may not be as scary for high school students who are used to the annual routine, but it still is something that makes them apprehensive, especially when moving to a new school, or meeting new people.Read more…Raising Bilingual Children: 10 Tips for Boosting the Minority Language
Your toddler may think that he or she’s a complete superhero -- and when it comes to language acquisition, it’s actually true! In particular, compared to adult language learners. Lena Sandvik in Boston says “I’m amazed that my 15 and 11 year olds have grown up to be completely bilingual.Read more…Troubled Teens
Most of us have a deep love for our children. We dream of the heights that they will attain while they are still small children. We inevitably believe that our children can somehow do better on the road of life than we could have ever achieved.Read more…Problem School or Problem Child
New Years Eve is a time to make new year resolutions. Many of the resolutions are based on facts. I am too fat.Read more…Terrific Booklist for Infants, Toddlers, and Young Children
From the time my son was born, I read to him daily. Even when he was a colicky infant, there was something that seemed to soothe him when I read The Cat in The Hat. Reading was challenging between 9-15 months when he went through a stage where he seemed more interested in tugging and pulling the books than listening to the content so we relied heavily on board books or less expensive paperback versions.Read more…Quality Time - How to Neglect Your Child and Get Away with It
One of the most widespread terms in recent history is “Quality Time”. The speaker of this phrase is indicating that he plans to cram meaningful and memorable activities into the short period of time he is willing to allot to his child, spouse, parent, relative, friend or associate. Since he is unwilling to provide quantity, he will substitute intensity.Read more…Remember
Remember, we played in the street until after dark, cavorted in the woods, the fields, on building sites and next to the river. Towns were safe, neighbours were safer and relatives were safer still. Or so we thought.Read more…Don't Touch The Woolly Mammoth
Don’t Touch The Woolly Mammoth.We created a few warm ups. Not for the body, because the kids had just had lunch and they were all thoroughly warmed up.Read more…The Terrible Twos
The terrible twos. Is it a myth or has your gorgeous baby developed into a fiend of mischief over night.The change from baby to a young child can be quite painful for some parents but have you ever wondered why ?Read more…Honey, Who Spoiled the Kids?
When you were growing up did you have brothers and sisters that you had to share everything with? How about wearing hand me down clothes, or toys that they have grown out of? I did.Read more…
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One of my recent coaching clients a couple of weeks ago was telling me about the holiday they wanted to take with their kids over the school holidays. All together they have a family of four - one girl and three boys, three of which are over the age of twelve, with a girl having a 'romance' with a guy at school, which made it even more difficult to decide on a mutual holiday duration and destination. So I decided to cover this topic in this week's article: Holiday Tips with Teens!