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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 signs that your teen is using drugs
- Did you know that over 75% of teens aged 16-17 report that obtaining marijuana is "easy or fairly easy?" Or that 25% of youths between 12 and 17 say the same of crack?When children start using drugs they usually exhibit many different signs that parents need to watch out for. Unfortunately, many parents often write-off these signs as normal adolescent behavior and as a result they...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A good preschool idea
- The successful preschool idea behind many successful preschool learning centers is thorough all round planning and well-chosen staff members. Any preschool idea that does not begin with sound financial planning and in-depth budgeting knowledge will probably fail.Profits from running a preschool learning center are usually only seen after a year or more of your preschool idea becoming operat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Valuable parenting tip
- Very often, new parents rely on a parenting tip or two which is passed to them by their own folks, who are now grandparents and usually have plenty of reliable advice to share. If this sort of parenting tip and advice is not available however, new parents could run into all sorts of problems while trying to raise a healthy baby.Attending a few lessons at a parenting class where valuable kno...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Homeschooling --- a superior education for your child
- Home-schooling provides children with a superior education. Parents can quickly teach most kids the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic using excellent, creative, learn-to-read, or learn-math books, programs, or computer learning software. Once children become proficient readers, they can then study subjects they love in greater depth. If a child needs help on a special subject, parents can...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Help my preteen/teenager is driving me nuts!
- Do you feel like someone has abducted your sweet, innocent child and replaced them with a monster? Are you confused that somehow you have gone from knowing everything as a parent, to knowing absolutely nothing? Welcome to being a parent of a preteen/teenager. It is a brave new world. Being a preteen/teenager is difficult and being a parent of one is difficult as well. In this article, I will addre...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you reading to your kids?
- Over a number of years there have been issues raised concerning the literacy levels of eight year old children in schools. The number not meeting minimum literacy levels was almost at 30% only a few years ago. It has since improved but is still a concern to teachers and parents alike.It seems the desire for consumer goods and pressure for both parents to maintain employment is robbing our n...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is your child having trouble in school?
- Did you know that the school system is only able to meet 50% of student learning needs?That's right! - only 50% of the student population is in an environment at school which enables them to be successful learners.The reason for this is not because of bad teachers.There are many excellent, dedicated teachers in schools, whose life's work and passion is to educate their student...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Puberty - get ready to play the puberty game
- Puberty can be a difficult time for children. Not quite kids anymore and not really adolescents they are caught in the middle in type of limbo. It is a sad time for many young people too. Many look back at their childhood and realise that they can never really act the same way yet they look ahead and realise that adolescence will present them with its own peculiar challenges.Children are re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Strong-willed kids: raising a spirited child
- Sometimes a change of perspective can make a huge difference for parents when their children's behaviour worries them. This point was evident recently when I was involved in a minor disagreement with one of my daughters.I was annoyed that she dug her heels in and refused to give me any ground while we discussing the issue of bed-time. As she went off to her room with a victorious look on he...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Picky eaters - successful strategies part 1
- What is in a name?The answer is everything!Jo J. of Victoria, Texas said that her son was a very picky eater between the ages of four and six and refused to eat many of the dishes she made, until she discovered the art of renaming recipes."One evening I discovered that he would eat ANYTHING he thought might be on the diet of the characters of his favorite TV show at the t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Resilient, confident kids - 10 ways to promote resilience in children
- Do your children have a McChildhood? Do they experience the type of childhood that may satisfy them in the short-term as their immediate needs are met, but in the long-term, leaves them ill-equipped to deal with some of the curve balls that are thrown their way?The emergence of indoor playgrounds is an example of the lengths we go to not only provide a sanitised life for kids but to ensure ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Starting school - what age should children begin school?
- "What age should my child start school?"This is a common question that concerns many parents. It is complicated if your child's birthday happens to fall near a closing date for new school enrolments.There are many factors to consider including: a child's gender, his or her general readiness and maturity and also family circumstances such as sibling proximity.However ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Peer pressure - five ways to help teenagers beat peer influence
- Young people generally want to fit in to their various social groups so peer approval is a significant driver for their behaviour. For a young person resisting peer influence can mean isolation or instant ostracising so it sometimes takes great strength of will to refuse to follow the crowd.It is important for parents to understand the value of peer groups for young people and also remember...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time managment skills for children
- Time management is an organisational concept traditionally associated with adults and the workplace. The experts tell us that more efficient use of time means greater productivity. So organisations encourage individuals to prioritise, plan ahead and make the most of the time that they have at work.It is important that working parents are good managers of time so they can meet the demands of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sibling fighting - reduce sibling rivalry by not keeping score
- Recently, a much-anticipated game of mini-golf with my children soon turned into a disaster. There were smiles all round as we hit off from the first tee but the enjoyment factor was reduced to zero as my children's smiles were replaced by tears, put downs and whining.The source of all this angst was the scorecard. Or to be more precise competitiveness over the scores. The pressure was on m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Confident children - avoid overparenting
- For many years underparenting was perhaps the biggest problem facing children.Recently there has emerged another type of parenting that, whilst never as harmful as underparenting, can be detrimental to children's healthy development? that is, the trend by many of the current generation of parents to overparent their children.Overparenting occurs when parents solve children's problems...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Friendships - helping children develop friendship skills
- Reasearch into children's friendships shows that those children who are able to form friendships when they start school are happier at school and also learn better.More significantly, a positive beginning to friendships has long-term implications for social and indirectly academic success.Developing and maintaining friendships is a dynamic process. Most children experience some type ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Raising a high maintenance child
- Do you have a high maintenance child?"Thank goodness my second child wasn't born first. I would have stopped at one child if he was my first," said a mother at a recent parenting seminar.Many parents can relate to this sentiment. Nature has a way of evening out the score for parents. If you have an easy first born then hang on to your hat because chances are the second or t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Study skills - help young people study smarter, not harder
- Many young people don't know how to study efficiently and effectively. By knowing how to study students maximize their time, improve their learning and also reduce stress. Research indicates that successful students follow smart study habits to maximize their effectiveness.Here are eight smart study habits you can help your secondary school student develop at home:1. Listen carefully...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Raising boys
- The last decade has seen heightened interest in and awareness of the issues surrounding boys in most of the western world. It is common knowledge that boys lead the way in all the wrong statistics, including; problematic behaviours, learning difficulties and health problems. Educators and professionals around the world are looking for ways to cater for and engage young males.Approval and hi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Positive parenting - oops! i really lost my temper with my kids, what now?
- Ever blown your top to your children, only to regret it ten minutes later?Silly question, it happens to us all no matter how well-behaved our kids or placid and patient we are. At times the general strains and stresses of life wear us down so our emotional responses don't match children's behaviours. Or rather, their less than perfect behaviour doesn't warrant the 'screaming banshee' respon...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mom vs. dad: navigating parenting differences with all good intentions
- Let's face it: raising children can be quite the adventure. Rewarding at one turn, challenging at the next ? it's the ultimate roller-coaster for the parenting thrill seeker. In the Game of Life, you rolled the dice and accepted the role of co-parent. While the rules seem deceptively simple, (raise child into healthy adult), the game is often complicated by differences in parenting styles b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Americas public schools --- deteriorating like they did in ancient rome
- The citizens of the early Roman Republic enjoyed an education system similar to ancient Athens. It was voluntary and parents paid tutors or schools directly. There was very little government interference, so a vibrant education free market of tutors, schools, and apprenticeships developed.One aspect of Roman society that compromised their education system was that Roman parents wanted their...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Now, they?re bullying my daughter in our home: welcome to cyber-bullying
- Last night Tom's daughter, Sue, came out of her room to see her dad and said, "I got another one of those instant messages. It says, 'tomorrow you had better not show up at school or else'." She has been getting messages like this now for weeks. The result of this is that she no longer likes to turn her computer on.Sue is now 14 years-old and in the 8th grade. She has been bullied...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Drugs and violence in public schools
- Many public schools not only fail to educate our children, they can also be dangerous places. These schools are a natural breeding ground for drugs and violence. Children are packed into classrooms with twenty or more other immature children or teenagers, all the same age. Here, peer pressure becomes socialization, pushing many children into using drugs and alcohol.Put twenty teenagers in t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are public schools anti-parent?
- Some public schools try to turn children against their parents with scary classroom stories or lessons about child abuse. Public school authorities have increasingly decided that they are children's first line of defense against child abuse. This new attitude falls under what is now known as "protective behavior curriculum."The assumptions behind this curriculum are that every child needs t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grandparents --- homeschool your grandchildren and feel younger
- Grandparents, what better way to stay close to your grown children than to advise them about important issues like the dangers of public schools for your grandchildren? What better way to feel younger if you offer to help homeschool your grandchildren?When your children grow up and get careers of their own, that doesn't mean you have to be lonely in a big, empty house and lose contact with ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Homeschooling takes your child out of public school --- a unique benefit
- Home-schooling removes children from public school. That alone makes home-schooling worthwhile. Unlike public-school children, home-schooled kids are not prisoners of a system that can wreck their self-esteem, ability to read, and love of learning.Home-schooled kids don't have to read dumb-downed text-books, study subjects they hate, or endure meaningless classes six to eight hours a day. H...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Vouchers --- parents, dont depend on them
- Vouchers, which give tax money to parents to pay for tuition in private schools, sound good in theory. The problem is that voucher programs are few and very far between. The Supreme Court declared vouchers constitutional in 2002, but currently only thirteen cities or states have created voucher or education tax credit programs.Some of these voucher programs are tax credit programs, whether ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Parents rights violated by public school compulsory attendence laws
- Compulsory attendance laws are school authorities' first assault on parental rights. These laws force almost forty-five million children to sit in often boring classes six to eight hours a day for twelve years. Compulsory attendance laws force parents to hand over their children to state employees called teachers, principals, and administrators, whose competence they must take on faith.Comp...