Eagle Ranch Academy Counsels Teens Dealing with Prescription Drug Abuse & Addiction Dealing with a drug addiction can have a deleterious effect on one's life. This is especially true for teens because they are in a transitional stage, poised to enter adulthood. Prescription drug abuse and addiction often results in wrecked academic records, distraught home lives, loss of friends, loss of trust, deteriorated physical health, depression,...more
When a child gets diabetes then it is named either juvenile diabetes or type 1 diabetes, most of the time. This disease causes the pancreas to not be able to produce insulin or affects the bodys ability to use the insulin it produces, correctly. Insulin is a chemical which allows the body to use starches, carbs and sugars. Kids who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes are also considered to be insulin-dependent. They will have to take insulin for...more
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) refers to a handful of symptoms that makes it difficult for a person to concentrate and maintain focus. Children with ADD are likely to find it difficult to function during everyday tasks. For example, completing school work will be a big challenge. These children are also likely to get into trouble both at home and school.Children do not display ADD symptoms overnight. They tend to show up over a period of several months. If these symptoms are not dealt with in an intelligent manner they can cause your child to have poor self esteem and lead to more problems in the future.Unlike ADHD, (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) children with ADD are not hyperactive. They simply have trouble paying attention to things that do not interest them. When they are doing something they really enjoy they usually have no trouble paying attention.Child ADD is diagnosed in the same was as in adults. The psychologist or psychiactrist will consider several important questions in order to determine if ADD is, in fact, what they are suffering from. Here are a few of them:~ Are life tasks difficult to perform?~ Are these behaviors typical for a child of the same age?~...more
Bedwetting is a problem that affects almost all children. Most kids stop wetting the bed between the ages of 3 and 5 years. Others continue to wet the bed into their teens or even adulthood. Boys often learn to stop wetting the bed later than girls.The reason kids wet the bed is because they are in an extremely deep state of sleep and unable to...more
Giving birth, at home, without the drugs and medications that are commonly used in hospitals is known as natural childbirth. If you choose this route then you will not be using the manufactured pain relievers, such as epidurals, and will not have a cesarean or continuous monitoring of the baby.Giving birth naturally puts the ball in your court and...more
Learning a language can be very difficult, particularly for an adult whose brain and thought patterns have already slid into the rut of daily routine and have forgotten how to stretch beyond those boundaries. Children, however, have no such difficulties. Their minds have the ability to retain amounts of information infinitely greater than those that can be retained by an adult. This makes childhood the perfect time to learn a second language.Children learn a language by hearing it spoken all around them as infants and have usually grasped the fundamentals of speaking it by the time they are two years old. They do not attend classes or do exercises in workbooks. They do not attend seminars or conferences or read vocabulary lists until they are blue in the face (a sentiment that anyone who has ever had to take a language class in high school can sympathize with). They learn the language because the language is an integral part of their daily life.This same method can be used to teach a child to speak Spanish. Simply incorporate Spanish vocabulary into their daily lives. Call their toys by their Spanish names and teach them their colors and numbers in Spanish. Wish them a good morning...more
I think it starts with infant-hood; you know, feeding your kids vegetables as baby food. Did we feed them baby food we thought we would like, or what was good for them? I'm an advocate of introducing vegetables as early as 2 months old.As finger food...more
Plan A Multi-Layered Gift For Your Child Sometimes special occasions come up when you really want to wow your child with a great gift. Instead of following a list they have created or going with the usual, consider blending a few things into...more
Adopting a child can be complicated. Apart from an ocean of paperwork, waiting months for decisions, and the limited number of children available for adoption in the United States, adopting can also cost a great deal of money. If you choose to...more
If you saw a child in the street, alone, crying and in obvious distress, would you turn away and ignore that child? Of course you wouldn't. You'd do everything you could to help a child in distress. You'd call the police, try and find the child's...more
Hope is a strange, visceral concept. It is one of those words that, despite a clear dictionary definition, is often unquantifiable. Hope is the desire to see things change, to achieve something worthwhile, to have a better life. But by adding a few...more
Choose Kids Birthday Invitations Using a Theme Children's birthday parties are among the easiest types of parties to plan because there are so many choices when it comes to decorations and invitations. However, there are many themes available...more