UK Pros and Cons of Making Your Child and Additional Cardholder A benefit that all credit cards almost always offer is the ability for you to add a certain number of cardholders to your credit card account. The mechanics for adding cardholders to your account differs for each card provider, although almost all allow you to add your child as one. Given this choice, the question then is if you should or should not make your child an...more
Parenting Teens - Getting The Balance Right And Keeping Your Sanity Did you know that one of the causes of eating disorders could be a very subtle protest in reaction to parents being control freaks? Now the causes of eating disorders are a very complex mix of emotional and psychological problems and trying to find the cause can be very difficult. But in parenting teens, we need to be aware that our parenting styles can impact...more
Struggling Teens - Advice On How To Deal With Teen Depression Sometimes struggling teens have no ways at all of coping with teen depression and that is why it is so important that parents are actually there to help. Some parents are not even aware of the problems their kids have because they are absent.A shocking TV program in Italy revealed that some teenagers from well off families are never at home. The parents in these cases were both working and mostly absent from the home. They just gave their kids food, money and lodging. Most of these teens were on drugs.Being there means present not only physically but being there to lend support and advice. That is so important especially when we have to deal with struggling teens who may be fighting off teen depression.Some teens withdraw completely and do not even want to go to school. I know one case where the girl just curled up and refused to go out. It is in these cases that parents can really help by asking the teen what they feel would help. Try to encourage them to use coping skills and see it as a problem solving activity which can be shared.I know other parents who advocate a sort of writing therapy where they...more
Teenage Depression - Looking At Various Scenarios And How You Can Help Your Teen To Cope Did you know that the third cause of death among teenagers and young adults is suicide? This shocking statistic was released by the CDC recently and just shows why we cannot ignore teenage depression because that is often at the root of these...more
Parenting Unmotivated Children - Dos And Don'ts To Get Your Kid Back On Track Sometimes unmotivated children are just unable to accept the sacrifices they have to make to achieve a long term goal. They see most things in the short term and because they hate homework, then that is the obstacle.They cannot see where this is...more
Dealing With Child Attitude Problems - Getting Back In Control Again I was fascinated to read a recent book on child attitude problems recently. This book is by Michele Borba and is called Don't Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them. The title sums up the problems that we parents often face when all the negative traits of a child's character and behavior are dominant. We begin to despair if we can ever get back the loving, kind and well behaved child we used to have.In dealing with child attitude issues where the child is arrogant, rude, insensitive and lazy, there is always the problem of how to react. We need step by step guidelines and checklists to follow. Then we need to give it time and not give up after three days. We should be aiming for a timescale of at least three weeks if we are to see any change in our child's behavior.We may try in vain to change child attitude problems by telling the child that this is not the way to behave. Behave is the key word here because we have to work on how we are going to give our child those skills that will help him to change his behavior and his whole outlook in the...more
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The Angry Teenager - Keeping The Lines Of Communication Open And Learning To Listen If you take a moment to look at what is going on with the angry teenager in your household, you come up against pretty daunting changes which are...more
How Do You Deal With Children Lying? Strategies And Techniques To Build Mutual Trust How we deal with children lying is a difficult question to answer. We all lie at some point and of course we justify a lot of our lies by saying it...more
Top 14 Child Abductiohn Safety Tips for Parents & Kids Child abduction is rare, but it does happen. As a parent, you can't spend every moment with your child to ensure that he or she is safe. You can, however, teach your child...more
How To Stop Bed Wetting In Your Kids Are there easy and useful means you can use to stop bed wetting in children? This piece will present to you trouble-free ways you can employ to stop your kid wetting the bed every night. One thing...more
Kids Camping Gear - Fun Supplies To Buy For The Kids! Going on a wilderness trip outdoors can be a wonderful experience. In many places, you have the ability to camp all year round and all age groups can have fun. Some of the many...more