Raising Healthy, Self-Confident And Responsible Kids: A Top 10 Guide To Parenting Young Children

Raising Healthy, Self-Confident And Responsible Kids - A Top 10 Guide To Parenting Young Children

Raising your children right is a big responsibility. If you’re just a littlebit like me, I bet you’ve thought more than once: “If only kids came with a guidebook!” – I certainly have!

Raising your child to be happy, healthy, self-confident and responsible depends on a number of influencing factors. These factors include exposing them to a life that makes them want to be those things, providing continued support and guidance and letting them make mistakes. And being a role model!

In this article I have compiled a list of 10 surprisingly simple steps that will help you level up your parenting within just one week or less. In fact, when a friend of mine just recently actively incorporated these into his parenting, he could see a big improvement in his relationship with his kids in just 3 days! Sounds too good to be true? Let’s see…

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3 Easy Ways to Help Your Child to Relax at Bedtime

3 Easy Ways to Help Your Child to Relax at Bedtime

Bedtime can be a constant war for us parents, right?

You may find that no matter what you do, you just can’t seem to get your kids to settle down and you may even find that they have more energy at night when compared to any other time in the day.

This is completely normal and you are certainly not alone, but if you want to put an end to bedtime wars then here are a few tips to get you started.

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3 Steps to Compromising When You and Your Partner Have Different Styles of Parenting

3 Steps to Compromising When You And Your Partner Have Different Styles Of Parenting

There are times in life when you can agree to disagree, right? Parenting is not one of those times. A child is something that you both have an active part in and often important choices need to be made that both of you must agree to.

Whether you’re both debating on how to discipline your child or something greater such as whether to homeschool your child, you’ll need to learn the art of compromising. Here are 3 IMPORTANT, yet SIMPLE tips for dealing with conflicting opinions on parenting.

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Goal Setting Activities for Kids: 7 Simple Steps to Raising Self-Determined Kids

Goal Setting Activities for Kids - 6 Simple Steps to Raising Self-Determined Kids

Children who set goals from a young age learn to be self-driven and determined in life. If you could do something as simple as helping your child set and achieve goals and give them the skill set they need to grow into a well-rounded adult, wouldn’t you do it? Children are sponges and by teaching these life skills at a young age, it is more likely they’ll carry the good habits over into their future.

Here, we’ll talk about some of the advantages of teaching your son or daughter self-determination with goal setting. I’ll also give you some ideas about goal setting activities for kids, so you can set your son or daughter up for success. You’d be surprised how early they are ready to start learning!

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4 Things Down-With-The-Kids Dads Should Know About iPhones

4 Things Down-With-The-Kids Dads Should Know About iPhones

Is it important to you that you’re not a fuddy-duddy dad? Are you that type of father the other kids love because you’re cool and up to date with the latest trends? Maybe that’s part of the reason you own an iPhone!? Maybe you’re more like me and you appreciate Apple’s products for what they are: Technically sophisticated, mature and user-friendly personal devices.

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You’re Forever Young, Not a Boring Dad: A 5-Step-Guide to Being an Exciting Dad

You are Forever Young Not a Boring Dad

People generally seem to go through the same motions. They’re young; they’re fun, they’re free. Then they get some responsibilities, and they swear that they won’t become like all the other boring folks out there.

And then before they know it, they have kind of slipped into that “no fun” mode of being. But there’s good news: boring-itis isn’t a permanent condition. You can take steps to make yourself fun again! We take a look at some of these methods people. Your kids will appreciate it… and so will you!

So in today’s blog post, we’ll answer the age-old question of “How not to be a boring as a dad?” – Let’s dive right into it…

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3 Tips for Preserving Your Memories of the Precious Moments in Your Life as a Parent

3 Tips for Preserving Your Memories of the Precious Moments in Your Life

They say that time passes quickly when you’re having fun, but it’s certainly true that if you don’t take the time to savour each precious moment of life, you can easily wake up one day and realise that the years have flown past, and you don’t have many memories to look back on aside from a constant blurred stream of days spent at the office or slumped down on the sofa, in front of the TV.

The ideal for everyone, but especially for parents, is to forge as many gold-plated memories as possible, and not just to forge those memories, but to hold onto them.

For the sake of ensuring that you have fond memories to look back on for years to come, consider the following tips for preserving those precious memories.

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Help, My Kid Hates School: 3 Ways of Helping Kids To Enjoy School

Help, My Kid Hates School - 3 Ways of Helping Kids To Enjoy School

As they get older, most parents agree that it’s hard to find too many kids that would say they like school. It’s hard work, and it can be stressful. However, if your child seems to hate it with a passion and wants to avoid it as much as possible, that can be a problem.

Every parent should try to ensure that their child is engaged in their education. If yours seems to be the exact opposite and you feel like “my kid hates school”, here are three ways you should think of tackling the problem.

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7 Ways To Ensure Your Kids Excel In School

7 Ways To Ensure Your Kids Excel In School

Making sure your children excel in school can seem tough. After all, you don’t want to put too much stress on your kids while they are young and end up becoming known as one of those parents. On the other hand, however, you understandably do want your kids to do their best – perhaps even excel! How can you do this?

Check out the following 7 that will help you to ensure your kids excel In school and see what you can take away.

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