Self-control is self-discipline or willpower – the ability to manage impulses and emotions and to regulate behavior.

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Marijuana can have serious long-lasting effects.

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These children have the advantage of having undivided parental time, attention, and resources, but they can have a difficult time interacting with their peers and making friends as they have not had the practice at home of sharing, negotiating, and cooperating with siblings.

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Lastborns are acutely aware that they are the youngest members in the family and know they are competing with their older siblings for attention. They quickly learn they can capture everyone’s attention by making others laugh, so they tend to be engaging and enjoy the company of others.

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Second born children tend to “bounce off” the firstborn – or the child immediately ahead of them – often developing opposite traits of the firstborn. Middle children tend to be the most difficult to characterize, having contradictory personality traits.

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While parents of firstborns tend to be inexperienced and possibly anxious as they are parenting for the first time, these parents may also have more time to parent than when they have subsequent children--which consequently impacts how the child develops.

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Although controversy still surrounds this topic, birth order can give us clues to a child’s development of intelligence and personality traits and help us parent appropriately.

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The social skills necessary to develop friendships must be learned and reinforced in childhood to assure lifelong skills.

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Your adolescent will especially benefit from your insight and encouragement as he learns to empathize with and forgive others

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Children who learn to forgive will also be learning the life skill of how to deal with offenses and hurts they will experience later in life.

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