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Part 2 – The ProcessIn our last article, we talked about preparing your child’s room and your child for the task of room cleaning. We also talked about defining your expectations and being realistic by realizing the room is being cleaned by a child. Once those areas are taken care of, you can start finding ways to make cleaning the bedroom fun.One thing to avoid is making your child’s task extra work for you. Many of the suggestions for making room cleaning fun involve taking your valuable time …

As you hold your infant, you may wonder, “What will my baby be when they grow up?” So many things can influence the future career for your child that you may think it is impossible to know. However, some factors can help you predict your child’s future occupation. Genetics Some physical, emotional, and psychological characteristics are hereditary and can affect career choice. Obvious examples are basketball players and supermodels, both of which require certain physical attributes. Additional …

At some point in our lives most of us have felt shy or uncomfortable in a social situation but shyness or social anxiety can be crippling for little ones, especially in their formative years. Learning how to be sociable, how to share, how to make friends, and especially how to get along with difficult people or those you have nothing in common with are all skills that have a huge impact on adult life.If you’ve got a little one that struggles to make friends or be sociable, National Make a Friend …

Blogging is a great way of interacting online and sharing thoughts, words and deeds with a growing community of like-minded thinkers.  As we head for this year’s Safer Internet Day in the UK (February 11th, 2014), news reports reveal that more and more of our kids are taking up blogging as a way of connecting in the Digital Age.    In 2010 the London School of Economics reported that 11% of European children who use the internet wrote a blog and that blogging is on the increa …

February 11th 2014 is Safer Internet Day – no you don’t get a day off work for this, nor do the kids get the day off school.   However, as we all seem to spend more and more time online in this Digital Age we live in, this is a day organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre to focus on what children and young people are doing online and how we, as parents, can promote safe and responsible use of the internet.  The UK Safer Internet Centre has been launched in collaboration by Child …