Temporary child custody refers to a short-term arrangement that enables parents to ensure that their child is well taken care of while the final custody has not been decided yet. As with other types of custody, temporary custody allows the custodial parent to make decisions about everything that involves the child. The person given a temporary custody of a child may decide on the child’s schooling, healthcare, and welfare. Rules...more
A child custody case could be draining for the heart, for the mind and for the soul. This is not only on the side of the parents but of the child as well. But since this is inevitable when separation or divorce happens, parents could not do anything but to prepare themselves for the battle head on. For parents who are about to face a child custody case, the best way to go about it is to prepare. This process may entail gathering as...more
Teen drug abuse often starts unintentionally masked as “just smoking a cigarette” or “only smoking a joint”, or even “doing shots”. But, it quickly progresses to harder drugs, some found right within your home or the home of a loved one. With peer pressure to experiment with drugs, teens are turning right to their own medicine cabinets, experimenting with “soft drugs” such as cold medicines or even inhalants . With little persuasion, these same teens progress to harder drugs, often times also found right in their home or the home of a grandparent. Narcotic abuse—hydrocodone, oxycodone and oxycontin- is becoming increasingly popular, as teens consider narcotics “legal”, since they are prescribed by a doctor. So, what can you do to help your teen withstand the peer pressure to experiment with drugs? First, be uncool. Be the most uncool parent on the planet by being nosey- very nosey. Insist on knowing where your teen is at all times and who they are with. Don’t allow them to associate with others that you don’t know. Secondly, educate your teen. Don’t just tell them the dangers of drug abuse—show them. Words can only go...more
If you are a parent or grandparent, you are no doubt always looking for new ways to keep your children and grandchildren safe. There are many places that our kids go where we have little control over their safety, such as at school. However, there is one place where you can have full control over your childrens' safety, and that is in their very...more
Crying is a physiological process in the life of a baby. All normal babies cry to communicate with others. Since they can't express their feelings in words crying is the only way for communication. If any uncomfortable feeling comes they simply cry. Normally babies cry in situations like hunger,wetting,too hot or cold,tight...more
As parents, you understand how important it is to keep your kids safe in and out of the house. Here are some tips you can implement right now to make sure your baby is safe at all times.1, Always keep the baby neat and clean. 2, Cut the nails properly with utmost care. 3, Wet nappy should be removed and parts should be cleaned with soap. 4, Take care of the genitals because fungal infection is common in that area. Parts should be kept dry. 5,Care of the scalp is very important.Fungal infections, dermatitis ect can be prevented by proper cleaning. 6,Tight dress can cause irritation, hence dress should be loose and should allow entry of air. 7,Room should have sufficient light and ventilation.It should be free from dust and insects. 8,Seperate bed preferably water proof is needed for kids .It should be arranged near mother's bed. 9, Always keep some music making toys near the baby. 10, While carrying the baby support the head with hand.Since the neck muscles are weak sudden fall of head can be dangerous.11, Mothers milk is the best nutrition for the baby,it also gives emotional attachment.Breast milk should be given as per the babies need preferably in mother sitting...more
Exercise is essentially important to the health of the infant. Its first exercise, of course, will be in the nurse's arms. After a month or two, when it begins to sleep less during the day, it will delight to roll and kick about on the...more
Infants are very susceptible of the impressions of cold; a proper regard, therefore, to a suitable clothing of the body, is imperative to their enjoyment of health. Unfortunately, an opinion is prevalent in society, that the tender...more
For three or four weeks after birth the infant sleeps more or less, day and night, only waking to satisfy the demands of hunger; at the expiration of this time, however, each interval of wakefulness grows longer, so that it sleeps less...more
The especial province of the mother is the prevention of disease, not its cure. When disease attacks the child, the mother has then a part to perform, which it is especially important during the epochs of infancy and childhood should be...more
It is highly important that a mother should possess such information as will enable her to detect disease at its first appearance, and thus insure for her child timely medical assistance. This knowledge it will not be difficult for her...more
During infancy cleanliness is essential to the infant's health. The principal points to which especial attention must be paid by the parent for this purpose are the following: At first the infant should be washed daily with warm...more