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Two Brains for Child Safety

Author: Joyce Jackson Subscribe to users feed

Published: 18/06/2008

Your child has two brains. Yes, as a parent you may feel they may not even have one. However, we do think, despite the scientific evidence, that kids, all of us for that matter, have two brains. There is one in their head and one in their belly. We call the one in the belly the Belly Brain....

Faking Confidence for Greater Child Safety

Author: Joyce Jackson Subscribe to users feed

Published: 18/06/2008

Confident kids are safer kids. It's common sense and no special safety secret. Kids who are confident are naturally less of a target for predators and criminals, even the bullies at school. Confidence belies and underlying, subconscious message that says, "I'm not easy. I'm not going down."...

Ways To Help Children Sleep Better At Night

Author: Jay Brandley Subscribe to users feed

Published: 18/06/2008

Sometimes children can have a hard time sleeping at night. Some children have no problem falling asleep when it is time to go to bed at night. However, some children have issues with this. At times, it may be frustrating for a parent because they may feel like the young child is playing games,...

Wax Crayons That Forged A World

Author: Victor Epand Subscribe to users feed

Published: 17/06/2008

One of the longest surviving toys ever created is the crayon, and Crayola just about seem to own this market. Every single year they create over 2 billion crayons. Apparently every child, on average, will work his or her way through about 780 of these crayons by the time they are ten, and every...

Reinforcing Good Behavior In Children

Author: Kim Patrick Subscribe to users feed

Published: 17/06/2008

This morning after my children left for school, I walked into the bathroom and saw clothes all over the floor. Needless to say I was not impressed. Rebekah had forgotten (yet again) to pick up her clothes after having had a shower. I thought about picking them up for her, then decided that I...

How To Keep Stuffed Animals Clean

Author: Jay Brandley Subscribe to users feed

Published: 17/06/2008

If you have children, you most likely have a few toys in the form of stuffed animals lying around in the playroom or the bedroom of your children or in any other parts of your home. Stuffed animals are usually made of some kind of fabric material. Fabric materials all attract dust so if you,...

Electric Dreams - Why We Never Have Enough Batteries

Author: Victor Epand Subscribe to users feed

Published: 17/06/2008

Not long ago it was my little boy's birthday, and he received a fair mountain of exciting looking toys. Everything seems to be interactive these days. When I was his age I was the active one, but it seems that today there is an expectation that the toy will be every bit as active as the child...

Electric Dreams - Why We Never Have Enough Batteries

Author: Victor Epand Subscribe to users feed

Published: 17/06/2008

Not long ago it was my little boy's birthday, and he received a fair mountain of exciting looking toys. Everything seems to be interactive these days. When I was his age I was the active one, but it seems that today there is an expectation that the toy will be every bit as active as the child...

Games For Kids to Play - Make The Right Choice

Author: Margarita Schwartzman Subscribe to users feed

Published: 13/06/2008

Some researchers believe that kids addiction to video games may not be healthy for that, in fact, some of psychologists believe that certain action games that involve violence may produce different levels of aggressiveness in children towards real people. We, as parents, should take...

Teaching A Child Responsibility

Author: Kim Patrick Subscribe to users feed

Published: 12/06/2008

My daughter is called Rebekah and she is nine years old. She has always been good at losing things. I really don't know what she does with stuff - there must be some monster that comes into her room at night and eats things. Anyhow, Becky lost a DVD that belonged to the library. Now this...