Sibling Rivalry – How to Prevent?

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Saturday 6 March 2010 8:36 am

Most of the parents often find it hard to reduce or eliminate sibling rivalry among their children due to their busy schedules. Let us read about some easy ways on how to prevent sibling rivalry.

In order to prevent sibling rivalry, parents should not delay action before this rivalry reach new heights. By staying calm and using common sense, parents can easily reduce frustration over quarrelsome siblings in addition to turning the fights to feelings of love and affection.

Tips to prevent sibling fights:

  1. Parents should never discriminate or compare their children. It is wrong for a parent to praise one and scold the other in front of each other.
  2. It does not matter what the occasion may be, each of the children should get equal attention and gifts of their choice; the choice of one child should not be imposed on the other one.
  3. It is better for parents to let children work out differences as taking sides only makes things worse. But when in doubt or expecting a fight, intervene. At times, parents are best playing the role of an amateur psychologist than taking things in a police mode.
  4. Always remember that the job of a responsible and caring parent is to protect his children, even from one another.

If you still experience your children getting into sibling rivalry, try giving them more of your quality time and motivate them to do things together so that a bond is sooner-or-later created between the two. Remember, parenthood brings responsibility and you just cannot shy away from it. The best way to perform this responsibility is to enjoy it with a sense of caution.

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Motivating the Young Minds

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Thursday 25 February 2010 1:22 am

Motivating the Young Minds

To motivate a child, it is important for parents to first develop the feeling among the child about how important he or she is for them. Moreover, parents must make their children feel good about themselves and about what is expected from them in terms of social behavior and personal grooming.

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It is important for parents to let their children develop and continue their interest in what they prefer doing by offering them small rewards such as some chocolates or may be a trip to a park or a mall. These small rewards should happen only when the child is able to complete the desired job. Parents can also motivate children to finish their educational tasks on time so that you all can on the weekends.

At times a child lacks motivation because he or she hasn’t yet been exposed to what might be a life passion for him. So expose him to new ideas and areas so that he or she can explore and find his or her strengths and help the child in staying focused on the same. Make the children learn to schedule their time in a better manner so that they can concentrate on everything. For example, if he or she is not able to do his studies on time due to incorrect time plans, he or she may find it difficult to devote time on recreational activities like playing or music that may further erode the interest.

Encourage your child to express his opinion, talk about his feelings and give him the opportunity to take decisions. As a parent, help them to keep the positive attitude for no matter what the result is. Talk to them about everything important to them in a friendly manner and more when things start going wrong for them. In addition to that, offer your advice on what could be the best thing to do in such situations. Last but not the least, celebrate their achievements and praise them even if they are not that big.

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Raising Your Child

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Saturday 13 February 2010 8:25 am

Raising Your ChildRaising a child in the best way is not that easy. Before deciding to become a parent, we need to realize that kids are innocent, but they are also completely dependent and emotionally needy it’s the parent’s liability to love and sacrifice for the child.

By following and remembering some few things, we can get great help to raise a high level of emotional aptitude in our children in a best way to ensure that they live a happy, successful, and responsible life as an adult.

Always keep in mind that your child studies you very closely and you should therefore prepare to be a role model for the behavior you want your child to imitate because they learn more from what they observe than what they’re told. So the best way to ensure your kids adopt good manners, habits and values is by adopting them yourself.

Know your child by spending quality time with them and show respect towards them if you constantly put your children down and compare him with other kids, they’ll develop low self-esteem and believe it’s good enough to treat others disrespectfully, including you. Love unconditionally, celebrate your children’s successes, and accept their limitations. It’s not required to always fulfill their demands saying no will give your kids an opportunity to deal with disappointment, and help them to control their desires.

Let your children speak their minds know you respect their views even if you disagree with them offer constructive advice, not harsh criticism.

We learn best while we’re happy, even though parenting is a serious job.

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Child Psychology

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Monday 1 February 2010 5:30 am

Child PsychologyChild psychology is the way of understanding a child behavior that helps parents or teachers in handling his moods and problems in the best manner. But many parents do not accept the idea of showing their child to a child psychologist or going themselves for the consultation. According to them, people earlier never used to go to a psychologist and they still use to handle their children in very good manner their parents never did, so why should they go, there kid is not mentally unstable or is abnormal or what will the society will say if they came to know about it that something should be ‘wrong’ with our child.”.

The old myth is that you need to go to a psychologist only if there is some mental problem with the person. Childhood is the time when your child is raising his persona, and the way you bring him up plays an important part in his personality’s improvement and development. Try to understand your child know him, have regular discussions with him. So that he’ll be comfortable to discuss everything with you.

With the changing lifestyle, we don’t have much time to give to our children as now days we see both the parents are working but we can definitely spend some quality time with the child to know more about his likings and disliking and give him that unconditional love. The concept of child psychology makes it easier to understanding and handling the kids issue growing them in the better way by helping them controlling there behavior and knowing their emotions.

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Do’s and Don’ts – Raising Your Child

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Saturday 19 December 2009 4:35 am

Do's and Don’ts - Raising Your ChildMost parents, in today’s world, do not have enough quality time to spend with their children. The reason may be as genuine as busy work schedules and as stupid as social networking, but the truth is that more and more children are living in this world on their own.

Here are some do’s and some don’ts while raising your child.

Do’s:

  1. Always try to be a friend of your child rather than just a parent
  2. Understand the real needs of your child
  3. Respect your elders and child and your children will respect you
  4. Help your child learn different activities like swimming, horse riding, and games besides education
  5. Encourage him to take decisions on his own
  6. If he is wrong, let him know why he was wrong and how things could have been avoided
  7. Talk calmly and hear his views and reasons of an act before playing the blame game
  8. Always appreciate a good act
  9. Do not discourage him when he is wrong
  10. Do not teach short-cuts, which are unethical, to your child
  11. Never abuse your child: physically, mentally, or socially
  12. Do not nourish bad habits in your children assuming that to be cuteness or a matter of time
  13. Do not force your decision or lifestyle
  14. Never appreciate his wrong deeds
  15. Do not laugh at his wrong doings, ailments, or weaknesses
  16. Never compare your child with any one, each child is special

Don’ts:

These small yet meaningful tips can make all the difference when it comes to raising your child.

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How to be a friend of your child?

Posted by admin | Raising Your Child | Friday 11 December 2009 5:43 am

How to be a friend of your child?If you want your child to be happy and perfect besides sharing his success and failure stories, make sure that you are more of a friend than just a parent. This means that you should be the first person to discuss a problem and share joy for your child and the child must not respect you because he fears you but because he admires your presence in his life. Spend quality time with your child so that he can talk freely with you.

Before you can be a good friend of your children, you need to understand some things very clearly. Never ever crack a joke on your child’s success or failure. If he has made a mistake, accept that as a human mistake and let your child know that you still love him. Make him understand the difference between the right and the wrong so that he makes less mistakes and learn from the mistakes to be a better personality, even better than you.

Do not let your child down by making promises you cannot keep or expecting too much from him. Give him a space to grow – to grow as a child, as a member of the society, and to grow as a good human being. Never appreciate his wrong deeds just to make him happy and guide him with ethics.

If you can follow these tips, your child will admire the company of the most trustworthy friend in his life – you! This was all about raising your child in the best possible manner.

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