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Category: Parenting
Coping with Bullying
Bullying means intentionally hurting a person by someone who is, in simple terms, more powerful. It can be physical, verbal or emotional. Although there is some bullying in the adult workplace, bullying most often starts at school as kids.
First Day of School for 4-year-old
It is never easy for children to come to terms with a new phase in their lives – SCHOOL. The transformation from carefree preschoolers to responsible first-graders can be quite a change, especially if they are not prepared for it. To avoid facing certain difficulties and wisely preparing children for the first day at school, here are some guidelines.
Teaching Body care to Children
Is your 8-to-10-year-old beginning to get pimples, underarm odor, or other hygiene-related problems? Well, you might not have expected it, but your child is growing up and it’s time to hand over the body care routine to him!
Even if your preteen hasn’t started sweating yet, it is a good age to explain hygiene and body care to him.
How to Pack and Plan a Picnic
There’s always something alluring about a picnic. The joy of lugging a heavy hamper of eats and treats, the petty pleasure of laying things out on a pretty mat and letting the kids run around while you lounge lazily under a tree, beside a lake, picking on cherries in the warm sun. Well, enjoying a lovely day outside, takes a lot of work and planning beforehand. Here’s what I usually do while planning a picnic with the family.
Easy Snack Ideas for a Perfect Picnic
What can be more exciting than having a wonderful time with the whole family in the fresh air? A Picnic is one of the easiest ways to step out of everyday routine for having fun with children. Once a venue is decided the next most important thing is the food in the picnic basket. To simplify the preparation of your snacks list, here are easy and uncommon recipe ideas to enjoy delicious food.
9 weeks of summer to fill!
It’s that time of year again and parents up and down the country are already starting to think about what to do with their children during the summer break – the forward-planning ones, that is.
Let’s Have Another Baby!
Those immortal words one partner says to the other after the first baby has started sleeping through for a couple of nights, and they have forgotten the hell of the sleepless nights. After the hormones have made a shift, and suddenly a new baby seems like a brilliant idea. The pain of birth is a distant memory, and the idea of a baby brother or sister increasing your family is all you can think of.
The lockdown can affect your child’s ‘growing up’
Due to Covid restrictions, there is generally a lot of isolation in the community. And probably children could be the ones who are most affected. I recently spoke to a friend who is a mother of a toddler. She expressed fear about the development of her child in the past year. And this is a fair thing to worry about.
Why is it important to label things for children during a pandemic?
COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed many things in people’s lives. One of them is access to physical contacts. And this is especially true for children. This is why it is even more important for children to pay special attention to what they do. Children often do not know for themselves, what is safe and what is not, so it is up to parents or caregivers to not take their eyes off them when it comes to playing with friends at home or at school.