How to Assist Your Child in Selecting the Right Career Path

22 May 2018

How to Assist Your Child in Selecting the Right Career Path

Advice Education Family Life Parenting

How to Assist Your Child in Selecting the Right Career Path

Choosing the right career path is almost like choosing the road to a life of eternal happiness or a life full of struggles and dissatisfaction. In this age of low employment and high competition, there are several adults who struggle to select a career path and stick to it. In the case of children, the decision is tougher. As the reality of life and the importance of being career oriented get more and more important for young children, the onus is now on the parents. It is they who need to assist the children in their bid to choose the appropriate career path. Here are some tips on how to assist your child to select the right career path.…Read more... →

21 May 2018

Make gardening educational with your children

Advice Family Life Parenting

Make gardening educational with your children

You might’ve noticed that your child spends less time playing outside than you did when you were younger. That’s why it’s important for them to know that enjoyment can be found outdoors, too. And you don’t have to go far! As the lighter nights come in, spend time after school in the back garden or down at a local allotment and have fun whilst educating your children.…Read more... →

18 Apr 2018

3 Ways You Can Help Your Child With ADD or ADHD

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3 Ways You Can Help Your Child With ADD or ADHD

If you have a child who has ADD or ADHD, you may be struggling with how to best raise him or her. It can be a real challenge to know how to communicate, discipline, accept, and work with your child when they are also having to deal with something that they’re not really equipped to handle either. Luckily, there are a lot of resources out there that can help parents feel like they can better reach out to their child and help them find success. To show you some of these, here are three ways you can help your child with ADD or ADHD.…Read more... →

14 Mar 2018

Helping Your Child Take Care Of Their Appearance

Family Life Parenting

Helping Your Child Take Care Of Their Appearance

The last thing any good parent wants is a child that’s not confident or insecure when it comes to their appearance. Ironically, this doesn’t stem from helping them develop an awareness of the way they look, but rather ignoring it at an early stage. The idea is not to have them obsess over every detail and spend two hours in the bathroom every morning, but rather to simply develop good habits.…Read more... →

14 Feb 2018

Tips For Parents Of OCD Children

OCD Parenting

When they wrote the manual on how to raise children, they left out the chapter on children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Watching your child struggle with the irrational nature of their rituals and fears can quickly leave a parent feeling just as powerless as their child. …Read more... →

19 Feb 2017

Helping Your Kids Navigate Religion

Advice Education Parenting

Despite what anyone who’s on the ‘outside’ may think, having OCD doesn’t necessarily mean your entire life comes to standstill like how a computer throws up the dreaded blue screen of death when a logical…Read more...

23 Jan 2017

What it Means to be a Parent in the Digital Era

Education Family Life Parenting

What it Means to be a Parent in the Digital Era

There are certain things which you discover quite early on your life to be extremely effective in helping you cope with the worst of conditions such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, granted which are different to…Read more...

13 Dec 2016

Let Kids Play

Education Family Life News Parenting

According to a new study by the Children's Play Policy Forum, play can boost a child's development, including their independent learning skills, languageand problem-solving. On top of improving their physical and mental health, playtime can…Read more...

16 Nov 2016

The Importance of Family Pets

Advice Family Life Parenting

I can jump on the bandwagon as well and also discuss some of the more obvious reasons why a family pet can make for a really important addition to the family, but I won’t since…Read more...

15 Sep 2016

Supporting Your Child’s Long-Shot Dream Career Choice

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Supporting Your Child’s Long-Shot Dream Career Choice

One of my boys came home from school one day convinced he’d found his “calling in life” and yes, he actually did refer to it as a calling, although I suspect he’d heard that word…Read more...

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