Good parenting – How to control emotions and be a calm parent
Good parenting is one of the most difficult challenges of life. Being a calm parent and keeping control over your emotions and reactions while dealing with disobedient and disrespectful kids may seem impossible. You wish your kids the best, care for their wellbeing, health, behavior and happiness. You try to be a good role model, someone your […]
Disrespectful children – How to stop arguing with your child?
These days parenting seems much harder than it was a few decades ago. Many parents say today’s disrespectful children are driving them crazy. Constant fighting, arguing, rudeness, wanting to have the final word in everything, lying and manipulation – parents are frustrated and feel lost about what they should do to create peace in their homes and […]
Running away from home – reasons why children do it
According to United States statistics, 1 in 7 kids (age 10 to 18 yrs) will run away from home. Running away from home is serious problem – at this point, it’s estimated that 1 to 3 million kids are homeless. There are many reasons why kids run away from home. Most runaway kids are teenagers, […]
Peer pressure: Helping kids to cope with exclusion and cliques
Negative peer pressure doesn’t necessarily mean your child is being persuaded by “toxic friends” to try cigarettes, beer, or drugs. Quite often, children are excluded by cliques and are left to feel miserable, unworthy of friendship, depressed, and unhappy. Most kids would rather be members of cliques, no matter what it takes to be accepted by […]