Behaviour

“Thank you, Mommy!” These are sweet-sounding words from my three-year-old daughter every time I give her what she needs or what she asks...

Depression can strike anyone. A friend, who is a parent, observed that her 14-year old daughter was acting strange for the past weeks. She had...

Today would have been Dorothy Louise Law Nolte’s 85th birthday. A trained family counselor (who also founded a kindergarten, taught parenting...

One day, I overheard a teenager tell his friends “I am really angry with my parents! They are fighting again. Every time I see them together,...

Most of us take our role as a parent way too seriously. We feel completely responsible for our offspring’s welfare. We consider it our duty...

Tantrums are very common with children, even with well-behaved kids! Children become frustrated either due to hunger, fatigue or lack of sleep...

“My kids become impatient and uncontrollable when we are waiting in line to pay for our purchases at the grocery store,” my friend Tracy...

One night, my younger sister called with a problem regarding her barely 13 year old daughter, Audrey.  She had seen her daughter’s half-nude...

Disciplining your child is a very difficult task, one that is full of dilemmas, the biggest of which is the question of whether to spank or not. If...

It’s an amazing thing being a preschool teacher. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Not only do I get to have fun all the time (well,...