Taking care of a toddler at home is not easy at all especially when he/she continues to ignore your words. How can we be firm without losing our temper? Our children will learn from our example if we can be firm but stay calm in front of them. Jo Douglas posted several ways to […]
Do you want to bake some soft and tasty potatoes with golden, crispy brown skins? It’s yummy and good for both your child and yourself.
Over at howtobakeapotato.com, a post shows you how-to steps with pictures. Have some Russet potatoes (the most popular for baking) ready - not so sure if any other kinds of potatoes […]
Have you ever traveled to certain places where clean drinking water is difficult to get? SteriPEN is designed to purify drinking water using the power of UV light to eliminate any harmful bacteria, viruses and protozoa without chemicals or boiling.
It’s also perfect for traveling with your bottle-feeding baby when you run out of your own […]
Is your baby teething? If you want to help ease his/her discomfort with your homemade biscuits instead of buying some from supermarkets, here are two simple recipes . The first one is my favorite - eggless recipe, free of preservatives and any allergen (for most babies, I guess).
Ingredients:
1 cup juice
1 cup flour
1 cup baby cereal
Directions:
Mix […]
There are 70 percent of Americans have back pain. Although back pain is not common in kids, according to the Better Health Channel established by the Victorian (Australia) Government, also around 70 percent of Australian schoolchildren may be damaging their spines by carrying schoolbags. Here are some tips for preventing your kid from damaging their […]
Way back when my daughter was a baby, she sometimes took so long to finish a bottle of milk. In winter, I had to reheat her bottle several times with warm water because I didn’t trust my microwave oven that’s without any sensor or a digital clock on it.
When I came across this Baba-Sox baby […]
As fulfilling the promise to my daughter, I’ll be away in mid-June for three weeks. I really want to update parentingideas.org regularly and keep posting for readers, but there’ll be limited internet access during our stay in Hong Kong. So I’m looking for anyone who is interested in being a guest writer on this site. […]
In Alfie Kohn’s excellent article, he stressed that there are five reasons to stop saying “Good Job!”
1. Manipulating children.
2. Creating praise junkies.
3. Stealing a child’s pleasure.
4. Losing interest.
5. Reducing achievement.
I couldn’t agree more. Indeed the phrase of “Good Job” is so vague that the praised child won’t know what and how good he/she did. To […]
Have you gone through sleepless nights to soothe your baby back to sleep in the dark? I wonder if this baby sleep device might help.
Chicco’s night light soother is designed to be activated automatically by sounds such as baby’s crying. It projects soft night light that follows some music or relaxing nature sounds. Nice aside: […]
Not only do we adults may have the problem of procrastination, our children also drag on doing something that they have to do, that they even agree with their parents to do. How do we help our children to get things done? Over at ClubMom Linn Sperry wrote some practical tips to replace nagging in […]