One thing that I have learn while being the father of twelve children and working with families for more than ten years is that to create and maintain family discipline is no picnic! It's time consuming, it drains your strength, and there is very little immediate positive feed back. (My children have...
Do I Have To Follow Everyone's Parenting Advice?
Parenting is tough work and it is full of little traps. twists and turns! Parenting young children is challenging, parenting adolescents is challenging, and when you finally reach the stage of parenting young adults it is still challenging. Just when you think you have it right with your child, they...
Why Is It So Important To You To Have Good Family Relationships?
A fact of life: People are not born loners. We all want and need good relationships with others to be happy and to succeed in life. Don't be embarrassed of this, this is just how humans are "hardwired".
Another fact of life: Relationships are TOUGH. Each person wants something and it doesn't always...
The bully victims
The world is full of all sorts of bullies, including child bullies. There is hardly any place where there is no bully. That leads to another fact that world is full of bully victims as well. Any body could be a bully victim at any point of time.However, some kids are more prone to bullying than others.
Most...
Why do children bully
Causes of bullying: Why do children bully?There is no universal reply to the question why do children bully. Usually a child bullies when he is insensitive to others' needs and desires and oversensitive about his own needs and desires. However, each child has to be analyzed as individual case.Following...
How to handle a bully child
13 steps on 'How to handle a bully child'Handling bullies is not a piece of cake. But if we have a bully kid, we have no choice but to try everything available on earth to stop this behavior. Remember Bullying is more harmful for the bully than the victim.The following strategies would certainly help...
Bully Types
Bullying is a tendency of intentionally hurting others without sufficient reasons. Threatening to hurt is also bullying. ‘Hurt’ may be physical, verbal, non-verbal, social or sexual.Various Bully Types
Following are the most common bully types.1. Physical bullying
Hitting, kicking,...
The Bully Child
About 75% of the people in jail have been bully at some point of time in their childhood. Isn’t this an indicator that a bully child could be a potential criminal in future?
Looking at the other side, two third of the total shooting incidents in schools in America are the cases where the victims shot...
Father Forgets
Father Forgets' was first published several decades ago. Since then it has been published several times in well known books and magazines including 'Readers Digest'. The famous author Dele Carnegie found it worth inserting it in his best seller ‘How to win friends and influence People’.
I would like...
Parents Fighting Hurts Children
Most parents disagree with their spouses on one or the other issues on various occasions. No one agrees on everything. Disagreeing with each other is natural and normal. But how you, as parents, handle conflicts with one another has a lasting impact on your children, their emotional health, and the...
Have A Great Story About Child Descipline?
You have been a child. And now you are a parent. You must have come
across so many memorable stories in your journey from a child to a
parent.
Which is the best story you have? Something that moved your heart, or something that makes you smile even today.
Were you a naughty child? how did your...
I was Abused...
Ever since I can remember, my father was always very abusive to me emotionally, mentally, physically, verbally. He used to tell me words like "You are worthless, I'm as so sorry you are my daughter." Other times he would say to me "Nobody is ever going to love you." And he would say many bad words...
I was "Beaten" and I lived to tell my story.
When I was a child I was a hellian. I was a very curious boy. If mom told me not to touch the stove I wanted to know how hot it actually was, so I touched it. My mom stood there as I cried and reminded me that I was told it was hot.
After a few minutes of pain she did what mothers do and got me some...
Sad Momma
I am not sure where to start...
A little background, maybe. I have three children, a 9 yr old, 5 yr old and a 3 yr old.
My 9 yr old is actually not mine, but my stepdaughter, who loves basketball, soccer and plays the piano. My 5 yr old loves school, cars and Tae Kwon Do. My 3 yr old is beautiful,...
Spanking is NOT BEATING!...
No normal parent (myself included) wants to spank their child but there are times when children push boundaries too far and physical intervention is necessary.
As a child my parents spanked me maybe two to three times that I remember and I DESERVED IT! Most of the time my mother just had to look...
Against Corporal Punishment
The people who are against corporal punishment argue the following negative effects of corporal punishment:
Negative effects of Corporal Punishment: Arguments against Corporal Punishment
Scared Child
Short term effect
Psychological effect on the child
Hatred towards the parents
Parents' guilt feeling
Children...
Why do parents feel like spanking children
Most of us have grown with various forms of corporal punishment in an acceptable way. So we tend to use the same way to discipline our kids. We often find parents slapping, beating or spanking children. This is not an unusual scene. It seems to show immediate results and therefore we tend to believe...
Pro Corporal Punishment
Some people are great supporters of corporal punishment. They see only positive effects of corporal punishment. According to them following are the advantages of corporal punishment:
That’s the only language children understand, and they understand it instantaneously.
That’s how you can prevent...
Corporal Punishment
Corporal punishment is a fancy name of causing physical punishment with a view to correct behavior of a child.
The history of physical punishment is as old as our civilization. We have been watching and hearing numerous physical punishment stories around us since our early childhood. Times have changed...
