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Children's Emotional Wellbeing: 10 Practical Tips for Parents
When a person grows up listening to negative thoughts about the self from an early age, then this can have quite an impact on the person.
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Make the Right Parenting Decisions for You
Making intentional choices means to be thoughtful and deliberate in the choices that you make, and taking responsibility for them. Parenting choices can be tough, but how often are your choices intentional?
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The Challenges of Being a Part-time Parent
Long working hours, onsite visits and chores leave parents with little or no time to spend quality time with their children- making them part-time parents.
This article is focused on the major concerns that working parents struggle with and potential ways to work around them.
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Parenting While Making Space For More
This article focusses on self-care as a parent.
As parents, we often tend to neglect our own needs or feel selfish for prioritising self-care. Research, however, suggests that looking after ourselves can, in fact, lead to better parenting practices and is essential for our health. This article lists a few ways in which you can make some time and space for yourself as an individual and as a couple.
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Is your Child Lonely
Peer interactions and friendships are necessary for a children's development; thus, it is essential for parents to look out for any such early signs of loneliness and take effective steps to help their children thereafter. This article aims to help you understand the signs of loneliness that you can watch out for in your child, and the strategies that you can apply to help them build the necessary skills.
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Turning your dreams into your child?s reality?
Research indicates that some parents think of their children as extensions of themselves. Parents are sometimes unaware that the hopes they have for their children may be coming from their own unfulfilled dreams. The article aims to differenciate between healthy yearning for positive growth and behaviors which parents engage in that put undue pressure on children.
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Raising a Hopeful Child
Across cultures, religions, communities and ages, one thing that all parents have in common is that they want their child to be happy. Individuals need to learn how to form goals for themselves, as these provide their plans with a sense of direction and an end to work towards. It also gives them a certain direction in which to channel their energies and focus. This article addresses the factors which can help you to make your child a person who is hopeful and knows how to form and achieve the goals they aspire for.
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Depression In Children: Identifying Signs
Depression in children often remains undiagnosed and untreated because it is attributed to developmental changes. It is important for parents to identify and differentiate the signs of depression from usual sadness. Here is an article that offers a glimpse into how parents can identify the signs of depression in children.
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The Blue Whale Challenge: Tips for Parents
The Blue Whale Challenge, a dark online game, has been all over the news and the internet, of late.As a parent, you may be worried as to what this game entails and if and how your child can be vulnerable to the same. Read on to find out more.
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5 Ways to Ensure That Your Child is not Overscheduled
As a parent today, it is easy for one to get overwhelmed with the vast, often conflicting ideas of what the right way to parent a child is. While one may want to give their children the best in all areas, there is always a risk of packing too many things in your child's schedule. Read this article to find out why it's important to leave some parts of your child's day unstructured