Me son’s father and I are no longer together. We have a temporary parenting plan now, but it was just thrown together and needs to be revised. I filed a proposed parenting plan and had it certified mailed to the father but he refused to get it. It has been almost three [...]
Her parenting style is completely contrary to the way you parent and believe, do you catch yourself judging her as a bad parent?
If you are a parent, or an experienced child-care provider that is one thing to share your opinion. You have something to offer. I’m just trying to get a truthful answer, not some silly comment. If you are not a parent, is your answer based on your observations? What is your [...]
Letâ??s face it, we all want to avoid making the same mistakes raising our kids we believe our parents or surrogate parents made raising us. This is especially the case when we still hold grudges toward parents for what has or has not become of us. Under this historical cloud, we know yet may not [...]
First Things First
Donâ??t assume your family, friends, or even current spouse will have the authority to step in and care for your children when you canâ??t. Talking about your wishes is important but without more, it gives them little to stand [...]
If you are a parent then you know how much happiness children can give you. But you also aware of the tough times and situations you had to go through when raising them. Parenting a child can be difficult. Even the most patient and careful parents can make mistakes. Here are 9 tips to help [...]
Parenting is a tough job. All too often we do not come to appreciate just how rough our parents had it until we become parents ourselves. While parenting has always been challenging, it seems that parenting today is even tougher than it was for the generations before ours. I believe that is is more difficult [...]
In case you haven’t caught it yet, they expect you to fail at parenting. Who are “they?” Everyone. Your in-laws, your cousins, your dog and your parents all expect you to fail miserably at raising your kid(s), especially during the teen years. It’s a motiff, a statistic, a played-out story-line that’s in every movie, novel [...]
As a new parent you face many problems and issues that you need to understand and deal with immediately. Newborns do not come with an instruction book so here is some information on some things that you need to know about.
Bathing your baby: Your baby’s umbilical cord will fall off in about one to two [...]
Parenting is the toughest, most important job most people will ever encounter and yet there is no license required, no training required, and no 24/7 hotline. This is rather short-sighted on the part of society as the cost of bad parenting is immense, but in truth the situation is not as dire as it seems. [...]