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Screen Time Guide for Parents

#Repost Credits to: myvision.org Screens are everywhere in the modern world. But spending too much time looking at screens can be harmful to your children’s eyes, bodies and minds. Setting limits regarding screen time can protect your child’s health and help them live a balanced, happy life. There are many tools to limit what types of content your child can access and for how long. Teaching…

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Teach Your Child to See the Good Side of Their Mistakes

As a parent, when kids make mistakes, let them realize what lessons they learned from their mistakes, what did the experience really teach them, and what they will do differently next time? We are not perfect, we fail, we make mistakes, this is the reality, we cannot protect our children from this, but we can teach them to deal with it, to deal with their mistakes in the right and healthy way.…

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Given the chance to climb, roll, crawl and jump freely, your little explorer can use their imagination to create anything they want. Mess-making is undeniably good for kids. For most, it is joyful and wildly engaging. Messy play builds foundational skills that are crucial for children’s later development. It is one of the most important kinds of early learning experiences we can offer to…

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Your Child Absorbs Everything

Our child’s brain has a learning design; our kids can be more inventive and creative when they interact with different objects. Parents should be careful of introducing them to gadgets or screens; they will pick it up just after two tries when you show them how to do things. If the child is in an environment where she hears the language, she will speak it. As the child absorbs words and their…

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Understanding And Loving Your Child With ADHD

If you’re raising a child who has ADHD, you probably spend a lot of time focusing on his weak points — intentionally or not. To ensure that your child is happy and well-adjusted now and, in the future, — and to create a tranquil home environment — you’ve got to be a great parent to a child with ADHD. All it takes is a few small adjustments to your parenting strategies and the way you interact…

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Tips For Dealing with Your Child’s Learning Disability

Your job as a parent is not to “cure” the learning disability, but to give your child the social and emotional tools they need to work through challenges. In the long run, facing and overcoming a challenge such as a learning disability can help your child grow stronger and more resilient. Always remember that the way you behave and respond to challenges has a big impact on your child. A good…

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Things to Say Instead of Stop Crying

Children cry for many different reasons, they may be frustrated, hurt or want attention. Whatever the reason is, the way you as a parent react to their distress will make an impact on them as a human. Approaching sadness and unhappiness with love and compassion is the best way to go. 1. It’s OK if you’re sad It is OK to feel sad. But sad feelings don’t have to take over your mood or ruin…

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Benefits of Positive Reinforcement in Raising Children

Positive reinforcement is a powerful tool that can help children form good behavior habits, while minimizing negative outbursts that garner negative attention. Positive reinforcement is a parenting technique used to encourage obedience and inculcate desired behavior without the use of punishment, threat, abuse, shame, or humiliation. If you haven’t given positive reinforcement a try, here are…

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Focus Tricks for Students with ADHD

A young child can typically complete a five-minute chore with only occasional supervision. The average teenager can do a task, with short breaks, for one to two hours. But for children with ADHD, it’s completely different. Try these tricks for increasing focus and attention in your child with ADHD at home. 🌟 Break schoolwork assignments into small segments. It’s easier for kids with ADHD to do…

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5 Important Social Skills for Kids

Good social skills allow kids to enjoy better peer relationships. Making friends takes practice, and you can help your child by rehearsing social situations and role playing ahead of time. Look for teachable moments where you can help your kids do better. Teaching kids’ social skills is one of the most complex, confusing, but rewarding aspects of raising young children. I am here to help you…

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How to Get Your Child to Obey Without Yelling

Most parents yell at their kids at one time or another. However, for some parents, yelling becomes a bad habit. Yelling, bribes and threats may be the easy choice to get kids to listen, but they listen from fear instead of learning to obey and respect you as a parent. Teaching kids to be obedient is not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but with a little patience and effort, it is…

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Put Down Your Phone and Pay Attention to Your Kids

It’s not enough to just be around your kids. You must be present, that means putting away your phone. Your children deserve phone-free time from you. The fact that no matter what we do, our children will follow. Parenting techniques have evolved from spending high-quality time with our kids; talking with them and playing with them, into distracting them with a screen as soon as they show the…

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The Benefits of Play for Children

Play is one of the most effective tools for keeping relationships fresh and exciting. Playing together brings joy, vitality, and resilience to relationships. Play can also heal resentments, disagreements, and hurts. Through regular play, we learn to trust one another and feel safe. Play helps children develop all kinds of skills Children’s minds are like little sponges. They soak up…

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Using Positive Language to Encourage and Empower Children

Our words and tone of voice have a profound effect on children. Positive language is the professional use of words and tone of voice to enable children to learn in an engaged, active way. This includes learning social skills. Learning to use positive language with children takes time. But you don’t have to do it all at once. Any enhancements you make in your language will do so much to help…

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How to Avoid Gaslighting Children

Gaslighting is a psychological term used to describe the process of grooming someone into believing that they are losing it or going crazy. Gaslighting parents do it to maintain dominance over the child. They will, for example, talk down to the child and attribute every claim and complaint to his or her imagination. Understand the importance of avoiding behaviors that could deny, withhold, or…

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What To Do If Your Child Is a Bully?

No parent wants to hear that her child is a bully. But bullying is also a serious issue for the aggressor. Kids’ friendship skills are an important indicator of their overall mental health. If your child is said to be engaging in bullying behaviors it might be a sign of serious distress. He might be experiencing anxiety or depression and have difficulty regulating his emotions and…

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How to Help Kids Learn from Mistakes

Learning from mistakes and errors is an important part of child and adolescent development. Most adults understand this concept. Yet, we have failed to teach our children that there is a positive side to getting things wrong. Parents’ actions influence the way children feel about themselves. When a parent holds a child, the child can feel how important he or she is. Parents should talk to their…

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