Articles for parents

• Behavior Modification Plan Example
  It is important to know that children behave in certain ways (even in annoying ways) because it serves them. When it comes to learning how to positively adapt a child's behavior, a “behavior modification plan” is the only way to go! To successfully modify behavior in children parents must realize that misbehavior: Provides children with attention (and negative attention is better than none at all), and/or gives children the control they seek. Fortunately, a consistent change in your reaction to their behavior can inspire a positive change in your children—....
• Games and toys ideas for the first three years
  Recently there has been a boom in the toys market. You walk into a store to buy stuff for your child only to become confused about what to buy!
  You actually needn't spend all your money buying stuff to make your baby smarter… In fact most of these toys’ efficiency is not proved by research. The simplest household items can make great tools for learning.
• How to Prepare Yourself and Your Child for the First Day of School?
  If your first child is about to start school this year you may be wondering who has more anxiety about it - you or your child. The first day of school is significant in so many ways; your child is growing up, you are not personally planning their days and you know, even if your child does not, that it is only the beginning of a long stretch of firsts.
• Small Wander
  Do you have small children who wander off? Have you ever experienced that feeling of panic when you believe your child is missing? Most parents have traveled this road, your heart is racing and you immediately think the worst.
• What Can Educate Your Kid Better Than A Child Book?
  We all know that reading to children at a young age is immensely important. But why? It's been proven that reading to a young child stimulates their intelligence, not to mention their writing, vocabulary and reading skills.
• How to respond to a crying baby?
  Crying is the best way infants can communicate. The communicate with you that they are in pain, hungry, they need a cuddle or a nappy change. It is a very complex pattern that changes in intensity and tone thereby providing a different message for different situations.
  
  
• Classic Toys
  All too often, the value of a toy is placed on the number of batteries it takes to operate the toy. However, think back to when you were a child and the one, favorite toy that sticks in your mind probably required no batteries. Classic toys are timeless and memorable and favorites for children.
  
• The Best Toys For Your Baby
  When choosing toys for your baby you should remember that they should be both fun and educational – there are a wide range of toys to choose from that can make your baby squeal with joy and we will discuss some of them in this article.
• Parenting Tips: Making Your Child Understand Money
  To avoid having your child turned into a spoiled brat, and demanding money left and right for any little thing they do for you, you must remember this parenting tip; never award children for things they should be doing already. Daily chores are a requirement or trying their best in school is one of their jobs as a child and they should not be paid or rewarded for this.
• Childproofing Your Home
  Having babies and small children in your home means life, fun, noise and safety, safety, safety. Normal, everyday items can be dangerous and even life-threatening to them, so you'll want to make any necessary changes to your living environment to ensure the safety of your little ones. From room-to-room there are different adjustments to be made. Here are a few tips to get you started...
• Help Your Child Succeed - 2 Things You Must Do
  Help your child learn to be independent. Isn’t it what it all boils down to? That when you and your better half are gone, your child has the necessary skills and ability to lead an independent life, to earn a living, to make informed decisions, to protect himself from manipulation by others, etc. Help your child reach his fullest potential.
• Building Character in Kids - How To Turn Your Whiners into Winners
  Is building character a challenge for you? Do you feel discouraged when your kids pout about chores like setting the table, feeding the dog, or doing their homework? Do they whine, saying things like, "You make me do everything, nobody likes me, and I can't?" Choose this Thought Stopping Method to help them change their attitudes.
• The Case Of The Curious Toddler!
  All children, from infant to teenagers, have an innate sense of immortality. Toddlers especially can be fearless when it comes to exploring the world around them. This article explores the curiosity of the toddler.
• Being A Stay At Home Dad
  Although being a stay at home dad can be a difficult decision to make, the rewards are plenty. Consider those who go to work everyday and absolutely despise their jobs, and everything and anything associated with it.
  Being a stay at home dad may not work for everyone, but for those of us whom it does work for... we can only love it.
• There Are So Many Choices For Day Care And Preschool. How Do I Choose?
  Parents spend a lot of time worrying about whether their children are in the right day care and preschool. They look around everywhere trying to decide on the best place on their budget. This can be a very difficult process because you are putting a lot of trust into the caretakers. Leaving your child is hard enough when you know the caretaker intimately.
• Is Using Home-School Or Preschool Techniques To Your Childs Advantage?
  The idea of Home school is growing incredibly, and today they begin with preschool. Amongst the many reasons are transportation, cost, effective time management, special needs, religion and a lack of confidence in the conventional schooling system. When considering home school preschool you want to ask yourself a number of select questions relating to both you and your child.
• Infant Adoption Home Study
  Once a couple has begun down the road of adopting an infant they will be confronted with many challenges they must overcome prior to being approved. One of these obstacles, perhaps the one that causes the most consternation, is the home study process that will be done. This is simply a procedure where a social worker comes into the prospective adoptive parents home to get to know them and how they live.
• Baby Monitors: Pros and Cons
  For many parents, baby monitors are more useful appliances than televisions or washing machines. A baby monitor frees parents to do the things they need to do around the house, without worrying that their child is crying for attention but can’t be heard. But can baby monitors be overused?
• Introducing Your New Baby To Your Pet
  Introducing your new baby to your furry baby can be an interesting, humorous and touching experience. My wife and I had two Chihuahuas that were the center of the world (in their minds anyway) before my son Cadyn was born. Introducing him was actually quick and uneventful. The real bonding and introduction came as the dogs got used to the situation and used to him.
• The Benefits of Outdoor Play
  We know sitting in front of video games and T.V. are not health beneficial. Being outdoors helps our children to become creative. It is also known that children sleep better when they have played outdoors.
• Learning About Positive Parenting And The Benefits That Last A Lifetime
  Raising children can be subjective and complicated. But there are many hard and fast rules that seem to bridge the gap between a myriad of parenting styles. Positive parenting – offering children positive feedback for their achievements and efforts – can go a long way towards raising positive, emotionally healthy adults.
• Quality time – games, books, television, computer: how, why and how much?
  Quality time – games, books, television, computer: how, why and how much?
• Using Sign Language With Baby Provides Dramatic Benefits
  20 years of painstaking research has proven that children who use sign language have enhanced language, mental, social and emotional development, as compared to children who do not.
• Getting Baby To Sleep Through The Night
  Getting baby to sleep through the night involves patience and training. New born babies sleep till they are hungry -then they wake up and voluably ask for food. This is natural but parents can help to train their children to sleep longer at night and by themselves.
• Solving Baby Sleep Problems - It's Time to Sleep
  If you’re pacing the floor with a wide-awake baby in your arms at 3am every morning, but can’t bear the tears when you put him down, then maybe you need to start doing something differently – as they say "if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you keeping getting what you’ve always got.
• Starting Baby on Solids
  Do you have questions about feeding your baby solid foods? We've got the best tips and advice on how to start!
• Everything You Need To Know About Baby Swings
  Baby swings have been life-savers for many parents who could not get their children to fall asleep except for the soothing back-and-forth movement provided by the swing. There are lots of variations on the baby swing concept, from simple swings that the parent pushes back and forth, to swings that can be cranked, and even electric swings.
• Parenting Troubled Teenagers
  When you first took on the job of parenting it is a good bet that you never actually knew what exactly you were letting yourself in for. Sure you might have babysat a few times when you were growing up, and if you were not an only child or the youngest, then you had been around babies at some point in time in your life. However, nothing in your life before this had prepared you for the job ahead, and now that your kids are in their teen age you find yourself floundering even more. You’re parenting troubled teens and you don’t know what to do...
• Nurse Your Baby AND Keep Your Job
  Breastfeeding moms often struggle when they go back to work several weeks or months post-partum. Here are some tips for nursing moms who want to keep nursing their babies even after re-entering the work force.
• Helping your children develop their self discipline
  We want our children to do the right thing, especially when they are out with their friends. We want to believe in them, but somehow, we don't feel certain that they would.

Articles on development

• How to respond to a crying baby?
  Crying is the best way infants can communicate. The communicate with you that they are in pain, hungry, they need a cuddle or a nappy change. It is a very complex pattern that changes in intensity and tone thereby providing a different message for different situations.
  
  
• Children's sleep patterns and habits
  New borns normally go through 6 states of sleep, for about 16 to 18 hours per day. However the sleep patterns change substantially in the first 2 yesrs, toddlers of 2 years old still need 12 to 13 hours on an average to sleep.... Details on different states of sleep and signs.
  
  
• It's Play time, Baby!>
  Read this to know how you can encourage your baby during play time in the first three years. Entirely indoors... Includes an year by year classification of milestones and games to play.
  
  
• Newborn reflexes
  A list of relexes present in birth. Know how these reflexes blend with everyday life and be used.
  
  
• Hand Eye Coordination
  Hand-eye coordination is a very important milestone to cross. See how you can help develop your baby's hand-eye coordination skills.
  
  
• Social and Emotional Development
  When does a baby starts socializing? How can parents and others help the baby develop social skills? All information classified on a monthwise basis.
  
  
• Motor Skills development
  A few important motor skills are head control, reaching and grasping, rolling over, sitting up, crawling and walking. Learn how to encourage these skills develop.
  
  
• Brain Development
  Parts of brain, when they develop and what they do!
  
  
• Apgar Table
  One of the first tests that a baby undergoes...
  
  
• The environment
  Environment's impact on baby's memory development.
  
  

Articles for professionals

• Memory and conditioning
  Memory levels of an infact. Amusing though the topic can be. Classifications of types of memory that infants possess and examples which you may apply to your own kids that could help better feeding time to better habits.
  

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• Human development
• Child development
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• Diagnosis-Pediatrics
• Animal behavior
• Piagetian perspectives on children's cognitive development
  Childhood Education, 1996, by Cesarone, Bernard
  
• Educating the Urban Child: Special Challenges-Promising Programs
  Childhood Education, 2006, by Szente, Judit