Bullies Target Obese Kids
For kids, a few extra pounds may invite trouble from the schoolyard bully. This is what the researchers have discovered that I recently read.
The study shows or it suggested that just by being overweight, a child has a very big chance of getting bullied. Although there are many factors that play a role of getting bullied, like gender, face or family related, being overweight is still the main reason. Being overweight or obese trumps all those other factors when it comes to aggressive behavior from other children.
The study found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent.
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Spanking or squat your kids
Did you experience to spank your kids if they are an out-of-control monster with a sense of entitlement? There is a huge different from discipline and punishment, because it teaches children to learn from their mistakes rather than suffer for them. Somehow, punishment focuses on the parent being responsible for controlling a child’s behavior, and it leads to fear and resentment, guilt and ashame.
Punishment is a one way street. And also, you may has not been giving them a chance to correct their behavior or learn appropriate response.
Discipline however is teaching of an acceptable behavior to children. There are careful ways in disciplining toddlers and every parent should be familiar with it.
Discipline encourage your child to control themselves from within. Parents should set rules that are aligned to their own values and beliefs. When parents discipline a child they may learn independence and to take their responsibility with their actions and to make their own choices based on mutually accepted rules.
Being a parent is complex and challenging. Good parenting requires love, patience, coping skills, empathy, emotional maturity, compassion, and education.
Toddler Tantrums – What To Do?
Toddler ages 2-4 are experiencing tantrum and it is very common among them. As a parent you need to know the most important thing. Toddler will always want what they want, they will stick on what they say. You as a parent should also stick on your rules. Make them realize that it’s you and your rules will be follow not them. Even if they cry out loud and disturb the neighbor, ignore him. They will stop crying and sooner they will realize it’s not effective.
Toddler tantrum are inevitable part of child’s development. And you cannot avoid it. Just learn how to handle this kind of situation of your kids so it could help them little by little to reduce it and stop the tantrums.
Toddler Reading Activities Suggestions
Many parents are worrying that today’s kids are no longer interested in books and in reading. It may sound true in some way, that they maybe swaying away from books but with today’s modern technology, ebooks is a viable substitute for physical books. But still, with so many things, so many activities to do online, it may also be true that kids of today, the toddlers and teens are reading less and less books.
In a world that is slowly but surely turning away from books and getting glued to monitors or television screens and like I said before, the internet… the importance of having a passion or developing wants for reading cannot be overlooked. Reading is a habit and should be established when the child is relatively young.
As a parent we are the first person to show our kids the value and importance of reading. We must tell them and make them understand that reading can broaden their mind. What can we do to foster this habit and add reading to their daily activities?
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Benefits of Bedtime Stories to Kids
It has been a proven fact and many studies have been made that reading stories to your child before going to bed has many good benefits for him.
For generations, parents have known that bedtime stories help kids relax and fall asleep more easily. But what they probably didn’t know, specially for first time parents or new parent like myself, is that reading bedtime stories do more good than just relaxing them and putting them to sleep.
What are the other benefits of telling toddlers the stories of Peter Pan, Cinderella and the likes?
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