Divorce and separation, no matter how amicable the situation, is challenging for everyone involved. It can be particularly so for children, given the number of major changes that will occur in that child’s life.
Category: Preschool
Just when you’ve got the sleep routines and potty training down, a whole new set of challenges (and delights!) emerge during the preschool years. You’re in luck because here you’ll find articles, videos and events from finding the right preschool for your family, to effective ways to deal with different temperaments, preparing for a new sibling, developmental milestones, dealing with picky eaters, and more!
Summertime Fun With Yoga & Super Foods
The warm weather and possibilities of summer offer great incentive to enjoy the outdoors and breath. What follows are entertaining yoga poses inspired by the season, as well as insight for a super food to boost your munchkin’s and your own immune system.
Green Parenting: Obesity and Our Children’s Food
There are a multitude of ways we know we can help our kids eating healthier – cut out junk food, cut down on sweets, exercise and eating at home – are all ways we’ve told our kids they can be healthy. But really, this isn’t enough.
Yoga Tips for Traveling With Children
So, you are thinking of the best way to travel with your little one’s and all I can suggest is to remember that with any child, it is about the journey not the destination.
Self Control, Redshirting & Breastfeeding: The Brain Connection
Sandra, former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, shared with us her incredibly information findings on how our child’s brain works in conjunction with some of the larger parenting issues we face today.
Preparing for Kindergarten
Sounding out simple words and correctly writing letters are paramount skills to kindergarten success. With a solid foundation in each of these skills, students will have the early tools they need for excelling in school. Yet not all preschools emphasize these skills, and not all children even attend preschool. As a parent, there are several […]
Raising Patient Children
From a very young age, children are asked to exercise patience in group settings. How well they demonstrate patience among their peers depends largely on whether they’re asked to practice this important skill by parents and caregivers.
Want to Be a Good Parent? Teach Self Control
Join us for our next radio show on April 25 at 1 p.m. Can’t make it, you can always listen to it in playback at your leisure! As I was reading the opinion section of the New York Times in February, another column on American child-rearing practices lept from the pages. It was at the […]