Toddler Discipline and Spanking: Why They Should Never Go Hand in Hand

If you were to classify “spanking”, would you place it under form of discipline or would you tag it as child abuse? It’s amazing how there can be a very thin line between loving your toddler and believing that a “little spank” should set him right; and actual child abuse.  This is a very sensitive [...]

101 Tips to Parenting

Any couple who believes that parenting a child is a bed of roses ought to think thrice.  From birth up until the child “leaves the nest”, so to speak, parents have the primary responsibility of rearing and nurturing that individual.  Given this enormous duty, parents need all the help that they could get to be [...]

Bedtime Stories and Your Children

How many parents still tell bedtime stories to their children, honestly?  I mean let’s face it, bedtime stories take up minutes of your precious time as a busy parent. Sometimes, the extra minutes that you should have spent on a nice warm bath still goes to that mommy-and-baby-bonding-time called storytelling.  I just recently started this practice [...]

Help! My Baby is Teething…

Isabel turned five last December 2007 yet, for me, she’ll forever be my baby.  This is my daily notion and I was quite surprised to find out that she’s teething so soon!  Her two, central, lower milk teeth (well according to this chart they’re her incisors) are giving way to two, little permanent teeth.  I’m thinking, ain’t she [...]

Loving the Kids and all the Mess that Comes with Them

When a child is born into a home, the elderly often say that they are blessings from up above. Most parents would immediately agree once they see that tiny, pinkish creature with little hands and feet looking blindly back at them. Yet as the days go by, reality would dawn to these couples that a [...]

Mug-of-Cold-Chocolate-Moments with my Kids

A normal day for me would be: 9:00am-2:00pm — Preparing meals; tidying things up around the house; eating lunch; helping my husband get ready for work (he works at 3:00pm-12mn). 2:00-4:00pm — Nap time with the kids (sometimes if I have really tight deadlines with my articles, I just sleep ’til 3:00pm then I start [...]

The Greatest Gift a Father Could ever Give

Many fathers go through their lives wondering whether they have been good fathers to their children. When their kids go astray they either blame themselves or their wives. Where have they gone wrong? If you would analyze it, there is more to parenting than just making the entire family comfortable by purchasing a new home, [...]

How to Protect your Children from Online Pornography

My children are very young (my daughter is currently 5 and my son is going to be 3 very soon) but they are intelligent children and they are starting to ask so many questions about so many things that happen around them. When these questions start to arise, parents often wonder how they would answer [...]