Having a hard time this holiday season to feel festive??!! I have as I’m working this hard. Yes, yesterday’s snow helped a lot.
But what really did the trick for me was this fun and excellent IU Acapella choir ‘Straight No Chaser’ singing Christmas carols.
Christmas carols do not have to be [...]
December 14 2008 | Child Music Education and Holidays and Teens | No Comments »
By Rachel Paxton
By the time your teen is in high school, you probably aren’t taking as many pictures of them as you used to. I have to keep reminding myself that I only have a couple of years left and no time to waste trying to capture fleeing teenage memories.
You might be thinking that I’m [...]
May 20 2008 | Teens | No Comments »
By Paul Jerard
Yoga is “preventative medicine” for children and adults. Yet the world does not embrace preventative action. Just look at hunger, global warming, health care, and poverty. Now you see that some people do take action, but many do not.
Educating the public about the many benefits, which children experience from Yoga [...]
March 26 2008 | Child Development and Child Health and College and Teens | 1 Comment »
“One of the hardest things for many parents to hear are the words, “Mom, Dad…I’m gay.” Some parents, especially very religious parents, find themselves turning away from their child, believing somehow that God does the same. A man I know tells this story:
“At a meeting of gay university students, a former student of [...]
January 10 2008 | Child Development and Teens | No Comments »
“Education is something that continues from the day we are born until the day we die. In some cases, it’s formal, with definite starting and finishing times and a specific course of study. In the United States, most people attend elementary, middle and high school.
The CuteKid Photo Contest
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Win College Tuition, [...]
January 08 2008 | Child Education and College and Teens | No Comments »
By Elizabeth Morgan
As most people say, time is money. It is also very important that people learn how to budget time so that they can be more productive and efficient.
The skill of knowing how to budget one’s time should be learned early on, especially before one joins the workforce. This is because [...]
December 19 2007 | Child Education and College and Teens | No Comments »
Adolescence – the difficult period when a child changes from child to adult, usually beginning at age eleven and lasting through nineteen. This is a period of great change – physical changes in their body become very apparent, young people begin to search for their personal identity, they begin to feel strong sexual feelings and [...]
November 19 2007 | Child Health and Teens | No Comments »
Dr. Tiffany Field at the Touch Research Institute, University of Miami, Department of Medicine pioneered research in massage therapy for infants, children and adolescents. She discovered that neonates receiving regular massage gained 47% more weight than those receiving no massage. (Both groups were fed the same amount of formula.) Also, the ones receiving massage were [...]
November 18 2007 | Baby and Child Development and Child Health and Teens and Toddlers | 1 Comment »
When you became a parent for the first time, you were introduced to all sorts of safety devices: car seats, baby gates, safety latches. As your child becomes older, however, you should know that there are no tools specifically designed for teen safety (although you may wish there were!). Still, there are a number of [...]
September 14 2007 | Child Safety and Teens | No Comments »
