As a parent, it’s more important than ever to teach your kids about guns and gun safety, especially if you’re a family that hunts for sport or for food. It’s a topic that is hugely misunderstood all across the spectrum of people, and a lot of information about firearms comes from extremely biased people with narrow minds. ...
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When it comes to your kids, you can’t be too careful about basic health checkups. And this doesn’t mean that you have to be one of the newly-infamous helicopter parents when it comes to keeping your kids away from activities where they might get hurt. It just means that you should definitely do regular check ups as part of a normal parental routine. ...
When you sit down to talk to your children about drugs and alcohol, no matter what age they are, you want to make sure that you are doing more than just saying, “Don’t take drugs or drink while you’re under age.” You need to explain to them what it is about these drugs that is going to harm them. ...
Parenting isn’t easy in general, and parenting during a divorce can be downright awful, especially if you and your soon to be ex are busy trying to hurt one another. You can remain a good parent during a divorce, and even if your spouse is bashing you, to your kids and their friends, you don’t have to stoop to their level. ...
But your probably not Most days I wake up and think oh god I’m such a rubbish parent because I let me child stay up a bit later the night before or let them get away with not eating all their vegetables to avoid a tantrum. However what I’ve realised in a light bulb type moment is that actually no I’m not a rubbish parent and I’m not failing at parenting I’m just doing my best like millions of others out there. ...
It’s been mentioned before on this blog that when it comes to parenting, it would be a futile exercise to try and establish an explicitly defined right and wrong way of parenting. As the decades wore on and turned into centuries however, a general set of parenting techniques have come to be somewhat standardised and accepted as being normal. Generally, there is a mainstream way of parenting which is made of emergent conventions which would largely be accepted in most societal spheres. For instance the traditional family structure would...
Making the transition from nappies to potties can be a long and frustrating process for both you and your child. It’s not something that can be mastered overnight and no doubt there will be a few accidents and tears along the way. As a parent, it’s your responsibility to teach your child how to use a potty while also making it a positive experience. But before you start teaching your child how and when they need to go, you need to prepare them for all it entails. It can be a confusing time and they may even be frightened by the concept....
Anything written in regards to parenting can tend to be a little controversial. Every parent was raised with a different background, some more religious than others, some liberal, some conservative, some indifferent to anything going on in the world, and none of those upbringings are particularly better than the other. ...
These days with all of the technology it can sometimes be a bit more difficult to entertain the kids in your home, so you need to do what you can to save money on those electronics and the things that go along with them, like games and movies. All of these things can add up quickly, with Blu Ray movies costing twenty dollars and more, and games costing even more than that. ...
