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The supreme desire of all the parents is to see their child at the top of the world. Everyone wants his child to be the smartest and best. We compare his walking capacity, running capacity, speech, and his intellect with his age mates around him. It is true that child’s brain and heart is a [...]

Games are very good for the growth of a child. Games are very pleasing and a multi-faceted thing for child. Games help children to remain active. They also enhance creativity and confidence level in children. But games become a headache for parents when games are not the physical and conventional games of our times. Children [...]

Sound sleep plays a significant role in the growth of a child. It is a scientific fact that a child grows a good deal when he is sleeping. Children need a comfortable place where they can relax. It is true that children can sleep on any surface especially if they are very tired. But it [...]

These days you rarely come across children who like to expend their energy by going out and play. Mothers are also not in a habit of keeping them home, away from the play fields thinking they would end up getting afflicted by some sort of infections due to their contact with the grass and mud. [...]

Now that your child is old enough to join the nearest play way or kindergarten, why not encourage him to do so. It is always a fun filled experience for every parent to send his child to a play pan. That is where he learns his first few lessons that stay with him all his [...]

It is a very common phenomenon to have a child saying no to a glass of milk. Many children develop a hatred for this health drink during their course of growing up. Problem arises for their mothers when they try to coax and cajole their tiny tots to sip away the hated glass, but all [...]

In the developing or the under-developed countries there are several ways in which parents discriminate against the girl child. It was always seen how the boy child has always been given preference and priority over his sister for every little thing including a healthy diet. Due to the ridiculous cultures and traditions of various countries, [...]

Children irrespective of their age love to nap most of the time. As a matter of fact, sleeping makes them strong and bouncy each time they wake up. Hence parents must always design their sleeping pattern according to the need of the hour so that none of the two suffers in the deal. There are [...]

The basic instinct of every parent is to shout or punish the kids for their misbehavior. These may work initially but soon the kids immune to it. They tend to turn rebellious, conceal the truth by lying, take to bad habits etc. To avoid landing up in hot oven from frying up, it best to [...]

Before getting started, how to teach writing skills to your child first know whether he/she is left or right handed. It is very simple to determine this just observe your child when he starts picking up things, the hand he uses for this purpose will let you know whether he is left handed or not. [...]

The first child of any parent is always quite pampered and showered with undivided attention, so at times these tiny bundles of joy tend to get spoiled and demanding. Parents fulfill their each and every wish because they love them more than anything else and another reason for the same is parents lack of experience [...]

To make your child learn the primary lessons of self esteem can be a sensitive as well as a very tough task because there is very minute difference between self esteem and snobbery. Praising your child at every right and wrong occasions must be avoided, as an all time appreciation can turn them into self-righteous [...]

Most parents complain that the child doesn’t concentrate on doing tasks in hand. But these complaining parents have to understand that the concentration levels vary in different age groups. Concentration is the ability to set up a hub on around which all the activities should be done, remove the obstacles, delay gratification and control emotions [...]

Children grow, develop and mature as they grow up in age. Growth phase begins with the conception of the child and continues throughout the life time. Generally, the changes occurring due to growth are more visible till the end of adolescence. Therefore its termed as the critical period of development. Here are the different phase [...]

First time parents have lots of anxiety and concern about the actions of the child. Even a small deviation from normal would be a cause of worry.  It’s better to be in touch with a pediatrician to avoid all these unnecessary tensions and to know the normal development of the child.  This way even if [...]

When the children are out of the house in the shopping mall or public places, some kids feel a sense of freedom to do anything they want. Many times they do things that embarrass the parents. When they don’t try to mend their ways on repeated warnings it frustrates and irritates the parents. There are [...]

When the child is not performing to the even to the bare minimum level expected at school, then the parents should take it up seriously. They should not scream or punish the child for doing badly but try to look for the reason for the bad performance. The best way to get the basics of [...]

Growth chart is a graph which compares the growth of the children with age. Having a growth chart is very helpful. It helps to figure how exactly the child is faring in terms of their height and weight ration as well in achieving the milestones. If the child is lagging it would be visible and [...]

Parents get irritated and frustrated when the kids through tantrums. When do it very often it becomes a cause of worry as well. But there is nothing to really worry if the kids through tantrums as with age they would get over it. This is their way of bringing out frustration and anger. Parents must [...]

All parents love their children. But in their busy life style they don’t have the time to show their affection to the child. But for the healthy mental development of the child, showing the parental love to the child is very important. Here are 10 ways for the parents to show their love towards their [...]