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Articles on ParentingThe free-range childTRALEE PEARCEFrom Tuesday's Globe and Mail May 13, 2008 at 2:26 AM EDT Back to Basics: Raising an 'unhurried child A growing number of parents are espousing a radical philosophy: It's time our children got some life skills by actually living Parenting Book Promises New ChildNBCNC May 2008"Have a New Kid by Friday-- How to Change your Child's Attitude,
Behavior and Character in Five Days," is the title of psychologist
Kevin Leman's book. Ways to build self-esteemBBC Aptil 2008 Toddlers are still just realising they're separate people. As your toddler grows and develops, he'll begin to learn who he is and will have more understanding about himself. Toddlers slowly build up a sense of self. Gradually, he learns what he looks like and works out the things he can do. Height calculatorBBC April 2008 Use this interactive tool to help you estimate your child's adult heightThere's an old theory that you can predict how tall someone will be as an adult by doubling their height at the age of two. Using growth data gathered from thousands of children, today's equation is rather more complex - and a bit more accurate. Nurturing the imaginationBBC April 2008 Here is an online activity that you can play with your child. Children love books and games, and nothing could be more exciting than being part of the story.  Single Parenting - a new type of family. Sopcos 2008 How About Single Parenting? In this modern age, single parenting is now acceptable in our society. Single parenting is the term we used for a person building a family or raising a child without marriage or without the present of husband or wife. How do we see it now? More Articles on ParentingMotherhood was just what girls didObserver UK 2007 Mums Under StressAmelia Hill The Brunei Times April 2008GRANDMOTHERS are watching in horror as their children turn into over-ambitious, competitive parents with pampered, demanding offspring, according to a new report into how women's experience of motherhood has changed over the generations. How Mothers can Handle Unsolicited Advice Peaceful Parenting author Dr. Nancy Buck Shares Her Tips Business Wire We all have wisdom. But, when is it okay to give advice and when isn’t it? Sometimes the tip your sister shares about calming a cranky infant might be just what you need to help your baby settle down. But sometimes even well-intentioned advice can feel like criticism.
Bookmark this page by clicking on the bookmark button and come back often as articles on parenting are updated regularly. Articles on Parenting for Saturday, April 26, 2008 Be an authentic parent By CLAUDIA QUIGG My recent request to readers to share their Wise Words about raising children brought a number of responses from parents about the importance of our own authenticity. In a world in which children receive mixed messages from a multitude of sources, parents do well to exercise consistency in their dealings with children. Young mother BreAnne quotes her own mom's good parenting advice: "Do what you say; say what you mean." But sometimes we don't know exactly what we mean if we are following someone else's methods. In an effort to do their best, sometimes parents read a book or listen to a speaker who tells them how they ought to raise their children. They attempt to follow a style of parenting that may not be consistent with who they really are. Clarity and consistency in our messages is helpful for children but difficult to provide if we don't parent from our best selves. Experienced mom Sarah expressed it well. "This is quite simple but requires a deep soul-searching. I have carefully considered many systems of discipline in trying to inform and refine my own. But when it comes down to my particular children and my particular temperament, personality and value system, what I do to raise my children might not quite be what anyone else might do, given their particular temperament, personality and value system. "In raising children, as in all of life, one must struggle to know thyself. It is from this core of our being that decisions about child-rearing must come. Because the fact is that if our parenting style doesn't come from deep within us and isn't informed by our most deeply held convictions, we will most likely not be able to be consistent. "And what's more, it is by living our core values that our children truly learn who they are. This shapes them to be the people we want them to be." I love this recognition of Sarah's that every parent is different and that we do well to "know ourselves." For only when we search our own hearts can we discover the legacy that we most want to pass on to the children who follow us. And only when we are parenting from our own hearts can we be consistent. I know a mother who delights in her seven sons. She has so integrated her experience with them into herself that she swears she can catch a ball mid-air in her sleep. In addition to knowing ourselves, parenting depends on that deeply contextual knowledge every parent has about her own child. When we live with children, we learn things about them that we may not even recognize we know. We know how they look when they are getting a fever or getting ready to throw up. We can tell when they are not telling the truth. We know our children better than anyone else on the face of the earth knows them. Another experienced mother, Sofia, recommends this advice to new parents: "Your children are yours, and you know best. Take as much advice as you can get from everyone, use what feels right, and discard the rest." Families work best when their members are recognized as the unique one-of-a kind individuals they are. Authentic parents raise authentic children. Claudia Quigg is founder and executive director of Baby TALK: www.babytalk.org. Articles on Parenting will be updated regularly. 
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