Don’t be surprised if your 13-year-old replaces her play-by-play description of her day with angry outbrusts. What is happening is a gradual, almost magical shift in the way your child thinks. Up until the early teens, a child thinks immaturely with little ability to conceptualize. But around age 13, a young person begins to think Read More
Category: Child Development
Riding the Wave
Surviving The Teen Years The teen years are like so many crashing waves that are so large we think they will surely drown us. We’ll do a number of things Question: If you swim into the natural path of a crashing wave, do you tell the wave to stop or do you prepare yourself for Read More
You Can’t Make Me
Backtalk is a natural part of growing up. It’s another way of testing limits. Try to find humor in the situation. If you can keep your sense of humor, backtalk will be just one more of those annoying things kids do, and not the end of the world. Who Me?Does your child sound like anyone Read More
It’s Not Fair!
Is your child’s whining driving you to distraction?Here are some tips that will help turn whiners into communicators. Whine Facts:Whining is a natural consequence of children having less control over their lives than they would like. Knowing this may help you feel more empathy for your child and make whining a little easier to tolerate. Read More
Do I Have To?
Children learn how to be responsible. Chores are important.Teaching children how to do work around the house may seem like a chore in itself. However, the rewards are great: you get the help and your child learns to take pleasure and pride in being a competent,contributing member of the family. Or, at least that’s the Read More
Eight Sleep Tips
Eight Sleep Tips for Every Child Up to 70% of children under age five have sleep problems. Sleep issues are complicated and have many causes. They’re hard to deal with because when children aren’t sleeping, parents aren’t sleeping, and that lack of sleep affects every minute of every day for every person in the family Read More