Family & Relationships

How to Prevent Your Child From Running Into Things

Just getting into first gear in their first year, one-year-olds feel the joy of exploration from their toes to their teeth. They don't automatically know what's off-limits and what isn't,…

Roberta Southworth March 1, 2010

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How To Deal With The Children Behavior Problems

Nail biting and finger picking There is a very simple reason why children bite and pick their nails, they enjoy it. When parents see the raw sores they wonder about…

Roberta Southworth March 1, 2010

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How to Deal With Your Teens’ Holiday Sexual Adventure

The unvoiced fear behind much of the resistance to teenagers going off on their own on holiday is that they might exploit this license and become sexually active. As the…

Roberta Southworth March 1, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Deal With Your Kids’ Car Travel And Clinginess

Car travel One mother with three extreme ADHD boys told me of her trips to and from school. 'Car seating is run on a strict roster. On week one John…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal With Your Children’s Messiness

Little people make big messes, and unfortunately for orderly parents, small children are almost always oblivious to their self-made clutter. Knowing that your child isn't deliberately messy but simply unaware…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal With the Three Major Children Behavior Problems

Only children The only child is often said to be lonely, spoiled and over-influenced by adults. There is a seed of truth in this, but there is more to the…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Deal with Your Children Clinging to You

The image of a preschooler clutching his mother's skirt, hanging on for dear life while she tries to cook or walk out the door, is not make-believe for many parents.…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How To Deal With Reaction To Stress And Uncertainty When Parenting

A child's behavior is intimately entwined with the stress and difficulties of their living environment. The child may not always understand what is going on around them, but they are…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal with Hyper Activity in Your Children

To be clinically diagnosed as hyperactive, a child must fidget frequently, leave his seat, run or climb excessively, have problems playing quietly, be constandy on the go, or be overly…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal With Children’s Obsessive Behavior

It is cute when your child hops down the footpath, avoids the lines and steps only in the squares. It's impressive when they can name and draw every dinosaur. But…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal With Children With Short Fuses

There are a lot of sparkly children, some with the stability of out-of-date gelignite. Parents handle these with the greatest of care, knowing that the slightest bump may blow their…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Deal with 4 General Children Behavior Problems

Gratitude 'It's not fair,' Dad unloads to me. 'I took him to the zoo, we had a fantastic day of father, son togetherness then, on leaving, he saw a Mr.…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to be a Step Parent for a Teen

One of the most difficult, but nowadays most common, hid lemmas, is how to cope with the introduction of a step parent, and often their own children, to yours. You…

Roberta Southworth February 27, 2010

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How to Plan a Good Holiday with Your Teens

If you do want to offer your teens a family holiday that would appeal, you might find that this is the time to break from the past, as a way…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

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How to Parent your Teens when they are old enough to have Sex

Our greatest fear as parents is often that young people will have sex too early, and that this will in some way harm them. Why do we object to early…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

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How To Parent Five- To Eight-Year-Olds

Our story starts when they are five years of age. They seem so grown up as they stride off in their new school uniform. They can sit, concentrate, mix, communicate…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

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How to Parent Eight- To Twelve-Year-Olds

It's now their eighth birthday and, as the last candle flickers out, they stand at a crossroads in life. Behind them are all the openness, innocence and unspoiled imagination of…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

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How to Notice Links Between Children Behavior Problem And Depression

Though our greatest worry is the depressed teenager, children of all ages can be depressed. Depression is more than the kind of short-term sadness we all experience. True depression immobilizes,…

Alan Kennon February 26, 2010

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How to Juggle Attention and Power When Parenting Your Teens

Whatever a child's temperament, the parenting style or the living environment, annoying behavior is always to do with gaining attention and power. The main way parents and teachers mould behavior…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

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How to Help Your Kids When They Are Socially Out Of Tune

Most children are out and out charmers, but a few are socially clumsy. They play poorly, mix with difficulty and don't see how their behavior irritates others. If you feel…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010