Kids Take Up Stand Up! Stand up paddling (SUP) is becoming the sport of choice for a rapidly growing number of kids and teens. Not only does SUP help young people develop strength, balance, coordination, and water skills, it's also an increasingly lucrative competitive sport. 15-year-old Slater Trout took home $2500 in prize money for placing third in the elite race at the 2010 Battle of the Paddle in Dana Point, California. Industry...more
Recognizing the Role of Child's Play: 5 Ways Unbridled Activity Benefits Your Children Do you limit the time your children get to play? For some parents, that may seem like not only a good choice but a necessary choice because the hunger kids have for what seems like a lot of goofing around gets in the way of school, homework, and chores. But what many of these parents are missing is that play is not just fun for children; it is an...more
Understanding the Power of Teenage Peer Pressure In most cultures, the training of teens begins in infancy and continues until the teenage years, whereupon the teenager enters the more of an adult role. Even in primitive cultures, this pattern is common and often includes an initiation ceremony, a "right of passage," to mark the transition from childhood to adulthood. In modern society, adult status comes many years after adolescence. While a teenager achieves physical maturity and wants social independences, he must remain in a position of dependence. He is compelled to continue in the role of student and is not allowed to compete with adults in the job market. He is out of place in the friendship patterns of adults; he has no legitimate outlet for his newly developed drives; he is not allowed to do the things that adults do for enjoyment and relaxation. Seemingly, society has no role for him, for he is not a child nor is he an adult. So while a teenager "resigns" from childhood in their early teenage years. They do not "enlist" in adulthood until they are fully independent, sometimes as much as a decade later. During this entire period, teenagers are in a cultural limbo,...more
Classic Kids Party Ideas Being prepared for any kids party will always bring some degree of control to the chaos that is usually children's parties. The thought of a room full of hyperactive children is often enough to put any parent off holding a children's party however with a bit of practical advice and a few classic kids party ideas...more
Diet Menu Kids The AuthorHave you heard about the author of The Diet Solution Program? She is called Isabel De Los Rios who has 15 years in nutrition field. However, she is not an expert in the field because she is different from other experts. Her research is based on her own experience while the other expert research is only based on the...more
Why using action figures, such as those from Schleich, are good for Children's Behaviour What is acceptable or normal behaviour for a child depends on a number of factors, the most important being the age of the child. As a child's development progresses, he or she is more and more able to determine what is expected in terms of behaviour and what he or she can get away with.It is generally agreed that children tend to continue a behaviour when it is rewarded (the reward can be something tangible or just praise, and cease a behaviour when it is ignored. Consistency of response by the parent to the child's behaviour is important, otherwise confusion and behavioural difficulties may set in. It follows that in young children unwanted or "bad" behaviour should probably be ignored. Actual castigation might be necessary in some circumstances when a particular type of behaviour is completely unacceptable or dangerous to a child, but, unfortunately it is sometimes counter-productive as it draws attention to, and may even encourage that behaviour. Sure, parenting is not easy!It is also argued that these days that physical punishment should be avoided at all costs. It only leads...more
Understand Your Child's Nature to give the Right Career Guidance Parents today are so concerned with getting their child to excel in school that they don't even bother to consider what their child's unique qualities are. At the same time,...more
Kids Train Sets - Deciding on The Greatest Sets Kids completely love train sets. Whether it is distant controlled, or one they'll push round and dismantle at will, they are typically content to spend hours watching in fascination and playing...more
Angeles Kids and Companies that Pro-actively Look for Needs of Kids Angeles Kids is a known company that proactively looks for the needs of kids. It can be said that there are basically 2 kinds of companies. The first kind waits for a need to...more
Is your Ex poisoning your children against you? It's very common for a parent to hate their Ex so much when the relationship ends that your children hear nasty comments about their other parent almost daily. It's also very common for your...more
Financial Crisis ... What do we tell our kids? When the rest of the world is reporting financial doom and gloom, what do our teens think? In a generation which we see more and more young people struggling with hopelessness, is this media...more
Accidents Caused by Children If you are a parent with parental responsibility and your child causes an accident or damages someone's property you may well feel moral responsibility. But will you also have legal responsibility? In most cases...more