Parenting Resources
How Birth Order Impacts Parenting
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.
Secure Infant Attachments Encourage Healthy Friendships
The best foundation parents can provide their infants is to help them develop strong emotional attachments early in life.
Helping Your Child Make Friends
The social skills necessary to develop friendships must be learned and reinforced in childhood to assure lifelong skills.
Toddlers, Forgiveness & Empathy
Toddlers learn by imitiating others. So they can learn to empathize with others, parents must first empathize with them.
Teaching Children to Forgive
A person’s ability to forgive others directly impacts their physical and emotional well being
A Father's Presence and Emotions Affect Toddler and Preschooler Health
Fathers should be aware of their facial and emotional responses to their children. If there is marital separation or divorce, parents should agree to allow fathers to have overnights.
The Importance of Fathers
When fathers are involved with their children, the children are more likely to excel academically and they have better physical and emotional health.
Building Relationships with your Infant or Toddler
Even infants and toddlers can practice relationship building and begin developing language when parents are deliberate about speaking to them and describing things to them.
Teaching Respect to Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers
Ideas to help teach your infants, toddlers and preschoolers the concept of respect
Teaching Children Respect for Themselves and Others
Research shows, when parents teach their children what it means to be respectful and to have respect for oneself and others, both parent and child reap the benefits.