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Why Summer Camp Makes Great Kids (Part 2)
Here are other reasons for you to send your kids to summer camp in the next couple of months, courtesy of Little Red?s Big Ideas.
Camp is a place for every child to learn: “Nationwide there has been a 78 percent increase in camps with academic programs in the last nine years and a 40 percent […]
Why Summer Camp Makes Great Kids
Summer camp is good for the kids ? it seems that that is the general consensus. But exactly how does summer camp achieve that? I read this great article on reasons summer camps create great kids. Little Red sums it up nicely.
Camps Don’t “Teach to the Test”: “What we are seeing is […]
Are Summer Camps Necessary?
Every year, when summer comes around, summer camp programs are held all over the United States. It used to be that summer camps were all similar ? bonding with nature and other kids, learning to socialize, learning outdoor skills, and the like. Today, however, there are many different kinds of camps that children […]
When Children Ignore Your Advice
This is to be expected, right? After all, even us adults may have the tendency to ignore the advice of other people who are close to us. Yet what bothers me is the fact that some children, especially teenagers, would ignore their parents? advice and then follow the same exact bit of wisdom […]
Where Do Parents Go Wrong? (Part 4)
I guess you?ve had enough of me pointing out where us parents could go wrong, huh? It is good to reminded every now and then though, isn?t it? So anyhow, I think that for the last entry in this series, I?d focus on one controversial issue: punishing children.
I wrote about harsh parenting in […]
Where Do Parents Go Wrong? (Part 3)
We took a look at how being overprotective can harm our children?s development. How about nagging, or as some describe it, repeating and reminding?
I personally do not see a problem with repeating instructions or requests, especially if the child does not seem to hear OR ignores a parent. However, we may have to […]
Where Do Parents Go Wrong? (Part 2)
In the last post, we talked about how parents fail to set limits and how this is where some of us go wrong. Thanks for the readers who commented on that post and highlighted the fact that it is not really the setting of limits that becomes a problem. Instead, it is the […]
Where Do Parents Go Wrong?
A reader of ours brought a veritable treasure trove of information on parenting to our attention. Visiting the U.S. News & World Report web site for parenting articles hasn?t really entered my mind but when we got an e-mail from Whitney Akers from the said web site, I decided to take a look. […]
What If You Have Different Parenting Views?
This question was asked of me by a friend who is a relatively new parent. The first thought that came to mind was ?Well, you should have talked about this in the first place!? Of course, I didn?t say that. After a few moments of thinking, I had to qualify my ?mind […]
Are Parenting Classes Necessary?
I once heard someone say that they wished that there could be a guide book on parenting. We all know that there is no such a thing as hard and fast rules when it comes to being a parent but they can be guideposts along the way. The kind of parenting class that […]
November 02 2007 11:43 pm
