Parenting & Pregnancy
Becoming a parent is both the most difficult and rewarding endeavor we can make as human beings. While much of parenting is instinctual it always helps to gather as much information as you can. Perhaps you’re in the early stages and want to learn more about fertility or childbirth and labor?
Maybe you’ve brought your new child home and are curious about the stages of development, what ailments you can expect to deal with or why your child won’t sleep through the night?
Worried about being a good parent? Looking for tips or methods or even just what type of summer camp is a good fit for your family? All this and more can be found in the Parenting & Pregnancy channel.
Setting the limits between child discipline and abuse
The difference between abuse and discipline is simple. When you discipline a child it is out of love and pure concern. In my opinion to discipline a child is to raise it. Think about almost every thing you do is about discipline. Life is full of responsibility and how you handle these responsibilities is based on discipline. If we do not teach our children to be disciplined they will fail at their
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In our society we have a habit of over doing things. For instance a doctor once told me, off the record
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This debate has been one that has rattled incessantly on for many years and it still shows no signs of
Adoption
- Understanding grief and loss in children
- Tips on how to search adoption records
- Tips for financing an adoption
- How to introduce a foster child to his new family
- Adopting? How to find a good match
- Adoption stories: The best part of our adoption experience
- American Indian kids deserve better foster care.
After School
- Brownie girl scout badge activities: Science Wonders
- Best age for children to attend their first theatre performance
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Becoming a Teen
- Brownie girl scout badge activities: Brownie Girl Scout Around the World
- Children and athletics
- Should parents raise their children without television?
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Plants and Animals
Child Discipline Strategies
- Parents need to train their children well for success in life
- How you can help your children deal with jealousy toward younger siblings
- How holiday exceptions to the rules undermine discipline
- How a parental "time-out" can prevent overreaction to children's behavior
- Book Review: SOS Help for Parents, by Lynn Clark
- Delayed gratification: Effect on conscience
- Teaching your child to obey without physical punishment
Grandparenting
- How being Christian affects me as a grandparent
- Should a child visit a grandparent with Alzheimer's?
- Grandparents: Tips for respecting your child's parenting choices
- Should adult grandchildren help support grandparents?
- Advice from grandparents: For a happy marriage ...
- How grandparents can ensure the well-being of grandchildren
- The joys of being a grandparent
by Leigh Goessl
A couple of decades ago a trend emerged for mothers to work outside the home. Long gone is the assumption that all mothers are stay
When traveling with baby you must be prepared. Since you can't take your whole house with you, you must learn what your baby needs
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
Even in a world where "the latest thing" is ever-changing, what is not ever-changing are the parts of childhood that help children
Writing Assignments
- After School
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Making Music
- A guide to the Ambassador Girl Scout uniform
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Making It Matter
- A guide to the Cadet Girl Scout uniform
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Let's Get Cooking
- A guide to the Brownie Girl Scout uniform
- The importance of Thinking Day to Girl Scouts
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Globe-trotting
- A guide to Girl Scout Week
- A guide to Girl Scout ceremonies
- The importance of Juliette Low's birthday to Girl Scouts
- Advice for Ambassador Girl Scout leaders
- Advice for Senior Girl Scout leaders
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Computer Fun
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Aerospace
- Advice for Daisy Girl Scout leaders
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Yarn and Fabric Art
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Write All About It
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Visual Arts
- Brownie girl scout badge activities: Outdoor Adventure
- Brownie girl scout badge activities: Numbers and Shapes
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Sew Simple
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: "Making" Hobbies
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Math Whiz
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Ms. Fix It
- Brownie girl scout badge activities: Movers
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Puzzlers
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Discovering Technology
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Drawing and Painting
- Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Jeweler
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- After School
- Should parents raise their children without television?
- Baby Sleep Issues
- Security blanket: Key to baby sleeping all night?
- Is it OK to allow your baby to stay up late and become a "night owl"?
- Common Baby Ailments
- Is the chicken pox vaccine necessary?
- Are generic drugs as safe as brand-name medications?
- Is circumcising baby boys a good or bad choice?
