Dec 04 2008
December 4, 2008 (R)
By Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman
The holiday season is fast approaching and many parents are concerned about the family financial situation and the money problems they may be experiencing. As if rising food prices, stock market instability, and skyrocketing health care costs weren’t enough, parents now have the added concern of [...]
Jul 19 2008
By Paula Spencer, Parenting
My house has been full of the sounds of sibling rivalry from the moment my firstborn first poked his week-old baby sister and set her wailing. The rumpus has continued right through the argument I just busted up between that baby sister, now 12 years old, and her two baby sisters over [...]
Jul 10 2008
Lisa Oppenheimer, Parenting Magazine
From her earliest breaths, my daughter Alexis was a force to be reckoned with. As an infant, she shooed away the cereal spoon; as a toddler, she rebounded from her bed all night long. When she was in preschool, her teachers would tell us that her strong will made her a natural [...]
Jul 10 2008
Parent Talk: Key to Literacy – Newsletter by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
Is school important? Yes. But the key to literacy is not located in the school house. It is found at home.
Most parents know that it’s important to read aloud to their children. School personnel have been recommending that for years. And now comes [...]
Jul 10 2008
Lawrence Balter, Ph.D., Parenting Magazine
As a father of three, I know how challenging it can be to discipline a child. Skirmishes with a youngster who talks back or throws a tantrum in the middle of a crowded supermarket can leave otherwise confident parents feeling frustrated and desperate, grasping for the right words or tactics to [...]
Jun 13 2008
By Karen M. Lynch, Parents.com, April 2008
Sometimes you get “good,” or “fine,” or the conversation killer: “I don’t remember” when you ask your child about her day. Take comfort in the fact that she’s not giving you the cold shoulder on purpose. But if you know why your child clams up and if you have [...]
Jun 04 2008
By Jocelyn Voo – Parents.com
Originally published on AmericanBaby.com, September 2006.
How to handle your reliable, conscientious, structured, controlling, perfectionist firstborn.
Firstborn children tend to become mini-adults far before their years. They are hardworking, diligent achievers who’re ready and able to please the adults around them. Of course, they also can be a bit controlling about having things [...]
May 30 2008
By Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
“Jillian, if you don’t stop talking back to me, you’re going to sit in the time out area until you learn to respect me!”
“You know that when children in this family won’t put their toys away they have to sit in time out. Is that what you want? If not, [...]
May 04 2008
Source: Scholastic.com http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7953
With more land, people, and voices than any other continent, Asia has an especially colorful literary presence. Explore these resonant folktales, heartbreaking immigrant stories, and luscious emotional landscapes.
Picture Books
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
Filled with conflicting emotions, a Vietnamese girl works with her classmates to try to bring her mother to [...]
May 01 2008
How do preschool teachers get kids to behave? They let the children work out conflicts themselves.
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