Parenting Today Staff
5 Healthy Homework Habits Recommended by Teachers
Teachers know that the best time to develop healthy homework habits for your family is before homework becomes a problem. Parents who approach their children’s ...
10 Tips to Teach Kids to Love Exercise
It seems every day there’s a news story about how children are getting fatter. Too much time spent watching TV or playing computer games, a ...
How to Teach Your Child to Be More Responsible
Teaching children responsibility is one most important life goals you have as a parent to help prepare them to be successful adults. But, as you’re ...
7 Ways to Connect with Your Children
All parents worry from time to time that they’re not connecting with their children the way or as often as they would like. You might ...
Moving Onwards: Your 11-Year-Old’s Development
Your child is facing significant changes in their life: a new school, approaching teenhood, and a changing body may feel scary and make life challenging. ...
Moving Onwards: Your Ten-Year-Old’s Development
Your child is now officially in their second decade, and while they no longer need you to hold their hand as often, you still have ...
Moving On: Your Nine-Year-Old’s Development
You’ve been a parent for nine years. You’ve seen your child progress from a helpless infant to an increasingly independent child with their own personality, ...
Temperament and Your Child’s Personality
Information on temperament and how it effects personality development in children from Child Development Institute. Discusses how to understand your child's temperament and how to ...
Screen Time Recommendations For Parents: How Much Is Too Much For Kids?
The amount of screen time children spend in front of digital devices is worrying. Children don’t seem to tire of watching YouTube on mom’s smartphone, ...
6 Indoor Activities for Teens and Young Adults
By Susie Yakowicz Is family night becoming a bore for your teen and young adult children? Finding ways to keep older kids entertained at home ...
How to Help Your Child Develop a Positive Homework Habit
Doing homework is one of the things children just hate to do. Most of the time, they put off finishing their homework because they think ...
4 School Bus Safety Lessons for Kids
School bus safety has been at the forefront of the news lately. Despite the recent media attention, school buses are actually a relatively safe ...
How to Help Your Teen Prepare for the SATs or ACTs
While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college-bound students will need to take at least one of these tests. ...
6 Things Parents Need to Know About Teenagers and Drugs
Every teenager goes through a critical period in their teens when they discover drugs. Some ignore the temptation, some try drugs and move on, ...
5 Things Parents Need to Know About Bullying
Sadly, young people today are facing what seems to be an increasing amount of bullying – and not just on playgrounds or in their neighborhoods. Aggression ...
