February 23, 2012
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February 23, 2012
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Features, tips, information and inspiration for families.
As the snow starts to fly and the temperatures dip, it’s tempting to succumb to total family hibernation. We may long to sneak off with a good book and a cup of tea while the kids are engrossed in television or video games, but this won’t help the family stay healthy for the winter.
Between the excitement of Halloween and Christmas lurks an oft overlooked holiday for kids. Thanksgiving may lack the fun of candy and costumes or the magic of Santa and reindeer, but it has an important lifelong lesson for our kids—gratitude.
A family meeting is time set aside on a regular (usually weekly) basis for the entire family to come together to communicate, make decisions, solve problems, share, and spend time together. Family meetings can be formal or informal, structured or unstructured.
Making friends is a vital skill that we use throughout our entire lives—and it’s a skill that comes easier to some than others. If making friends is challenging for your child, don’t fret.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, play time is crucial to a child’s development and contributes to their cognitive, physical, emotional, and social well-being. Unfortunately, most kids are missing out on valuable play time, which may be leading to increased rates of stress, anxiety, and depression.
A clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics warns that energy drinks, sports drinks, and any drinks with caffeine should be off limits to children and teenagers. These drinks have become wildly popular among kids, but they pose a litany of health problems that make them inappropriate.
If you’re like most parents, you’ve spent many exasperated evenings at the dinner table imploring your kids to eat their veggies. If it feels like you’re wasting your breath, it’s because you are. Begging will get you nowhere, except closer to a headache.
As a parent, it can be exasperating when your kids are plugged into their headphones all the time. You shout, but they’ve tuned out. It turns out that this habit is more than exasperating—it could be downright detrimental to your kids’ lifelong hearing.
Parents who want to raise kids who are thinner and smarter should keep them away from the television, according to the results of a study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
There’s no doubt about it—manners matter. But which manners should you teach your child? And when? Our basic primer on manners will get you started.
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