As your child grows and starts school and other activities, a morning routine becomes more and more important. The best time to establish their morning routine is when they are younger. Here are six tips to help build your child’s independence around their routine. Wake up at the same time every day Some children complete […]
Should You Allow Your Child to Blog?
The best way to learn is by doing. Doing entails action, not inaction. I’ve been blogging for about a year now. And a few months back, my daughter, a twelve-year old high school sophomore, started her own blog, too. With my permission, of course. If your eyebrows hitched up a bit (or considerably) at the […]
Nail Biting In Children
My six-year old oftentimes bites his fingernails, especially when he isn’t occupied with stuff. And because he loves holding things with his hands as well – the typical six-year old, curious as they come – the nail biting bothers me immensely. Lately, I realized he doesn’t even know he’s biting his fingernails until I tell […]
A Tale of Two Bullies
I was blog hopping when I stumbled upon a line that made me pause: “Bullies are made at home.” The exact words of a blogger-doctor. Well, yes, I know for a fact that a person’s attitude, whether good or not, always somehow finds its way back to how he was raised as a child. Come […]
Conversations With An Eight-Year Old: Christmas
It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, and since the frenzy of the earnings season is finally over (for now, at least), we were afforded long weekends off work. Mine started yesterday. But since I man the graveyard shift, most of yesterday was spent catching up on some much-needed sleep. Today, my eight-year old and I […]
Children and Exercise
When people think of exercise, they almost always have physical exercise in mind. The free Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines exercise as bodily exertion for the sake of developing and maintaining physical fitness. Similarly, freedictionary.com pegs exercise as physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body. […]