How expressive is your child?

An expressive child and a responsive parent is a prize-winning combination for toddlerhood. It’s a win-win situation and it enables the parent to shape behavior positively right at the outset. This sequence becomes quite easy to understand as below:

• The newborn expresses needs to his mother
• The responsiveness of the mothers builds trust
• The now infant learns to express needs appropriately
• Infants grow to become bigger toddlers with bigger needs
• These toddlers know the meaning of feelings and how to express
• The toddlers then get better equipped to express themselves to others

Attachment or detachment parenting?

being 'with' your children; not above or below them

It’s important to know your performance score on how you raise your children. Appraisals are required even at work so we know about our own performance and accordingly we can better ourselves. Sometimes you need to stop and ponder on your parenting style and how you behave with your kids. Parenting is little theory and lots of practice. Yet, theoretical awareness allows you to apply the right principles into making your practice better. It’s like any profession. Law or medicine or architecture; all need a strong knowledge base and practical experience. Unfortunately we have courses for all of those, just not for parenting. So you never know what’s going wrong. Trial and error is the only way, and one fine day your child has grown up. And you’re not sure what you did right or wrong to develop this temperament or that personality in him. If only you could be more aware when your kids are still young…

Top discipline principles

Theory forms the base of good practice. Needless to say, you have the best intentions for your children’s behavioral development and you put in your finest effort to discipline them to the best of your abilities. But sometimes your path may be just too conventional; too orthodox, too conformist; and if it seems like your luck was bad; too ineffective. A little knowledge never harms. Maybe there are a few things we are not aware of or problems we occasionally overlook in our dealings with our own children. The ABCDEFG of disciplining…

Why is my child so dramatic?

When kids get theatrical and drive you to the same reaction, it’s time for a spot self-check. Just because your child makes strange faces and bizarre bodily movements and outlandish sounds and quaint behavior that can drive you up the wall; you do not have to imitate her. You have to realize that it’s a trap and you need to keep your cool right then. Truly, children can be exasperating, draining, and a downright nuisance when they overreact to life's little setbacks. A little injury, loss of a toy, a friend taking away their book or their potato wafer too. Children just ARE like that. They seem to time their dramatic performances for the most inconvenient time for their audience. Nevertheless, these "small" events are always very important to them. You need to appreciate that and step into their shoes and understand your own children better…