Effective Parenting Skills & Parenting Tips

The tendency for first-time parents is also to try to create a superbaby or supertoddler. You enroll your child in tumbling, dance class, play groups, and other activities, all in the name of good physical activity and “socialization.” To me this is sort of like reserving a church for your daughter’s wedding before she’s old [...]

What I’m about to say is going to sound so unconventional and so against the grain of modern thinking that you may be tempted to dismiss it outright. But please hang with me: Just because your child is unhappy is not a good enough reason for you to rearrange your life to make things easier [...]

As much as any of us hates talking about abuse, it’s a sad and ugly part of a sinful world. Children are abused physically, emotionally, verbally, and sexually every day across our country. Sexual abuse includes any touching inside the bathing suit areas by someone who has no business doing the touching. It includes showing [...]