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Parenting Skills that Support Healthy, Happy and Successful Children

I recently visited a website that discussed a study on the parenting skills we should use with our children to encourage their ‘happiness, health and success’, and who among us doesn’t want to support that for our children.  Many of the parenting skills on the list are behaviors that we have been writing about, but here is Read More[…]


Quality Child Care–Chapter 3

In the first chapter on finding quality child care we shared some important questions parents should ask the program’s director.  This is best done by making a phone call and taking notes.  If the program sounds like what you are looking for be sure to ask if there is space available in your child’s potential room.  Read More[…]


Helping Children Resolve Conflicts

Conflicts are an inevitable part of life for all of us however for our children mastering positive ways to resolve disputes with others is a long process.  Children are influenced by many factors–their temperaments which come hard wired at birth, their experiences which vary depending on many factors, their cognitive development and of course their emotional Read More[…]