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 . ...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 own bedroom. You may not have considered that their room could ever be unsafe, but think for a second about all the dangers that lurk behind their door. Electrical outlets, heavy furniture, unlocked windows can pose a significant hazard to a child too young to know how to practice safety.Consider these few suggestions for making your childs room safer for him or her.Securing FurnitureA childs bedroom is most often considered a safe place to play, but did you know that children are killed every year by falling bookcases, dressers, and televisions? Securing these items to the wall behind them prevents children from pulling the furniture down on top of them. Kids dont know any better when climbing for that book on the top shelf, the box of crayons sitting on top of the television, or the lamp on top of the dresser that they cant reach....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...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 sofa: it will thus use its limbs freely; and this, with carrying out into the open air, is all the exercise it requires at this period. By and by, however, the child will make its first attempts to walk. Now it is important that none of the many plans which have been devised to teach a child to walk, should be adopted the go-cart, leading-strings, etc.; their tendency is mischievous; and flatness of the chest, confined lungs, distorted spine, and deformed legs, are so many evils which often originate in such practices. This is explained by the fact of the bones in infancy being comparatively soft and pliable, and if prematurely subjected by these contrivances to carry the weight of the body, they yield just like an elastic stick bending under a weight, and as a natural consequence become curved and distorted. It is highly necessary that the young and experienced mother should recollect this fact, for the early efforts of the little...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
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for teenagers after accidents and homicide. Why do so many teenagers take their own lives? Major factors in many suicides are bullying, feeling a failure or failing an important exam, a...more