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A sweet, smiling, boney baby is dream of every couple. But just being a mother and father is not completion of duty. Duty begins after a baby comes in this world. Practically children need parent until the age of 18 years and up to this age legally also they are children. So taking care of [...]

It is more difficult to come to terms with mental illness of the child than with physical illness. Parents feel guilty that it is brought about through some fault of theirs. Others may feel a social stigma will be attached to their child if his mental illness becomes a public knowledge. Mental illness is easier [...]

A haircut is one of the periodic routines that are necessary in the life of all, especially men. This process starts right from childhood. When the child grows the hair also grows and needs to be trimmed after a gap of a month or so. Taking the child for a haircut is a traumatic experience [...]

These days when both husband and wife are working and spending a lot of time in office and on travelling from home to office, it becomes difficult for them to find spare time. There is a race between the two to be better professionals and progress in their jobs. The cost of living has gone [...]

During these difficult times, when expenses tend to increase at a rapid pace as compared to income, the decision to have more than one child becomes difficult. Having children is one aspect, bringing them up, training them to be good citizens and providing financial support to all children becomes an issue to be discussed and [...]

After marriage the next important decision is having a child. This attains further importance when thinking of having a second child as it is bound to affect each and every aspect of life namely, the spouse, first child, other family members, finances, and your comfort and time involvement. Proper planning is necessary while deciding to [...]

Children can be classified as normal children and children who are aggressive or having strong will. It will not be wrong to say they have disruptive tendency. Their main focus is on unrest in the family or amongst the siblings. These children have to be dealt in a specialized manner. Exercising patience by the parents [...]

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 [...]