Achoo! Come spring, and allergy season is at its peak. And of course, new bugs are in the air, thanks to the blooming all around you. Well, this is also the season when most kids catch something and stay home ill with sneezy noses and watery eyes. So, what can we feed them to help them feel better soon?
Parents often hesitate to apologize to their kids because they feel that saying sorry would weaken them in front of their kids. Should parents apologise? When should parents apologise and in what circumstances?
We all know that nothing online is completely private. Yet, most of us parents love to ‘Sharent’ online about our child. Nothing makes us more proud than our kids! Well, that’s a great feeling, but how much info of your child should you share? What’s reasonable and what’s not? How safe is it for your child’s future? Here are some questions that you should ask yourself before posting your child’s information online.
If there’s one thing that all parents love to do, it’s share pictures of their children. Now, sharing pictures with grandparents, other parents or family is one thing but sharing stuff on social media can have some consequences in the long run.
What should you do when your child loses a grandparent? Or a pet? Or a close friend? Well, there will be questions, confusions, longingness for the loved ones who have moved on. And making death a part of normal conversations is essential, even among younger kids.
So, it’s ok to forget something. It’s ok to let go. As kids grow older, it’s also wiser to let them take more control over their lives. Yes, they will make mistakes, but they will also learn from them, and this is important.
It is a parents’ natural instinct to fix a problem that her child faces. As parents we also tend to disapprove of certain behaviour in our kids – like tantrums, poor scores in school or just what we feel is bad behaviour. But does this help our child? Is it better to reprimand, correct and fix? Or is it better to empathise?
As parents we are watchdogs for our kids. We teach them pretty much everything from skills, to hygiene habits, social skills, languages and ways to be safe. The one topic, which parents usually put off from discussing with kids is sexual abuse. And it is not because it is an uncomfortable topic, but because parents feel that their kids are too young to discuss it.
It’s very easy to raise a child who feels that everyone around him owes him something. Well, raising an entitled child is getting more and more common in our generation. We work hard to bring in the bread and the excess income for a rainy day – and we end up showering our child with the wrong things to try and make up for the guilt of not spending time with them. But it’s never too late to recognize or bring an entitled child back on track.
When the season changes, most kids catch something that’s in the air – allergies, colds, chills, hay fever or just a runny nose with a common cold. Well, despite being common kids’ ailments, they can pose big challenges for parents.
