The ability to manage stress is a skill that children can use for a lifetime. As a child growing up, it is important for them to identify and mange their stress properly. A lot of time, children imitate adults. It is their way of learning. So how can parents help children to deal with stress and let them learn in a comfortable environment?

One way you can help your child keep stress at bay...

presentation at the office, you realize today you couldn’t have breakfast with your child. Immediately a guilt weighs you down that you are not spending enough time with your child. When you reach home, your child throws tantrums on the dining table that he’ll not have dinner but only ice-cream. And you think, ‘He must be so sad all the day without me. Let him have some good time’....

You surely know that a kid’s bad behavior isn’t going to cease with time and that there are many things parents can do to enhance things. Truely, time often worsens the situation. You have to always see an unhealthy behavior in your child as the opportunity to teach him something, and not as a fatality or some kind of curse! But I suppose that if you are seeking for...

Sitting hunched over in his recliner chair, wearing oxygen tubes in his nose, John declared that he and his 89 yr old wife were just fine and they could take care of themselves, thank you very much. He was a real curmudgeon, although I expected that behind the facade of a grumpy old man, was a very nice person who was just scared to death and mad as hell at being old and sick.

One of the...

We all make mistakes when raising our children, but often we do not realize our errors have such a negative impact. Offering quick judgements that are not properly thought about, or giving restrictive and controlling orders may stop or prevent a problem at that moment, but what sort of influence do convenient, on-the-spot solutions have on our child’s impressionable and always-learning mind?...