Helping Parents Succeed
Everything you want to know about raising happy, confident, healthy children.
Halloween is just a few weeks away, and then after that it will be Christmas but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s tackle everything one at a time. Halloween itself will require a whole lot of your time especially if you’re a parent. Expect to be handling the costume designs and worries of your kids for their school play and party or for their trick-or-treating on the 31st. And with all those things in mind, you will always have to shoulder the burden of costs. [Read more…]
I’m a SAHM to my daughter, YS, a 5 going 6 y.o. girl in Penang. She attends a Montessori Preschool besides a weekly Di Zi Gui class (I attend a separate parents group sharing) organized by Amitabha Penang.
As families continue to adjust to an economy that is very different from just a few years ago, parents are realizing how important money lessons are to the future of their children.
It is true that kids will take what they want out of lessons learned in their youth, however if something becomes part of their day-to-day life, there is a good chance they will carry that behavior into their adult lives.
Children learn about themselves from what others say about them. They also learn about other people when they share their feelings and thoughts with them. Many parents would only tell children how they should behave but neglect to share their personal message on how they are affected.
Setting boundaries for your children is one of the best ways to raise well rounded children. Finding the invisible line in keeping your children happy and at the same time teaching them where the rules are can be very hard to find. Yet, your success is likely to depend on just one thing: your ability to follow through. In many families, the problem lies in parents not following through with the rules, punishments or even rewards. Once this is put in place, though, significant changes are seen.