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Divorce of the parents doesn’t change just the lives of two people but their children too. In fact, they are the ones who are most affected. Most often the divorced parent would be immersed in their own grief and hardly bother to sympathies with the child. This makes the child feel as though they have [...]

The parents have a vital role in developing responsibility in children. They learn the first lessons of how to live, what is right and what is wrong from home. Of course, peers and school also have a vital role to play. At early years of life, what they see and do have a great influence [...]

Each child has different views on cleanliness. While some are really particular about cleanliness others can be least bothered. Tolerance towards unorganised and untidiness is mostly developed by the atmosphere at home and sometimes genetic. The best way to get the children to be organised and clean is to coach them up from childhood. They [...]

Children keep on getting warts off and on. Warts occur basically because of the action of a virus known as the Papilloma virus. Many different kinds of strains of this human Papilloma virus are responsible for those small benevolent tumors, which we call as warts. Children and teenagers are the main victims of the virus. [...]

Children are normally afraid of certain things. Is your child afraid of animals, like dogs? Is he afraid of certain loud noises, like that of crackers? Don’t be worried at all. This is his defense mechanism. It is his own way to guard himself. As they grow in age, they will on their own learn [...]

Every body knows that junk food is not very healthy and nutritious for children. By realising this fact, parents should restrict the kids for junk food as regular meal. Saying a big ‘NO’ to junk food would only tempt to eat them more. They might do it without the knowledge of the parents. Instead it’s [...]

Vegetables and fruits are an important source of vitamins and minerals. But they are not very appetising and interesting to many especially children.  Most parents have to put in enormous efforts to get the children to eat veggies. They may have to beg, plead and bribe too for the kids to have them. Here are [...]

The best but most difficult way to stop nail biting is to find the reason for biting nails and resolve it. Some kids bite nails out of stress, boredom, curiosity or to comfort themselves in a tight situation. Sometimes the nail biting carries into adulthood too and it’s better to curtail it when they are [...]

Bedwetting can be a source of much discomfort and humiliation for young children. Bedwetting or enuresis, as it is called in medical parlance, is a major source of embarrassment for many children in the 4-16 age group. According to some studies, about 15-20% of the school going children in the above-mentioned age group suffer from [...]

Most parents have a tough time with their kids clinging on to them in the early months. The moment they realise the parent or the caregiver is going out of sight, they begin to howl, scream and crawl and get hold of their leg. This is very natural and nothing unusual about it. Since the [...]

What is Pneumonia ? Pneumonia is a disease spread by virus or bacteria and infects the lungs and obstructs the free flow of oxygen. The air that we breathe contains oxygen. This oxygen is filtered by the lungs.  This is dissolved in the blood through alveoli which are small air sacs that surround the blood [...]

Do you want your child to inculcate excellent leadership qualities? Go in for a leadership program for children and youth. With the leadership program, the youth learn to maximize their latent and thus prove to be productive members of the society. It’s like investment for the future society. If the youth of today develop outstanding [...]

Sleeping Patterns In The Period Of Infancy In the first three to four weeks after birth, the infant sleeps frequently both during day as well as night. His only need is food (milk) so he wakes up just to get it. After the fourth week, his period of sleep increases but the frequency of sleeping [...]

Teeth grinding in kids is known as bruxism. It  happens when children clench their upper and lower teeth, rubbing them each other. Generally kids grind their teeth during sleep and are not aware of what they do. Teeth Grinding Causes ? It is not known that why some children start grinding their teeth and some [...]

The entire responsibility of self-medication lies on parents since children will take whatever is given to them by the parents. It is very important for parents to think before giving any medication to their children on their own. It is very difficult to make the right diagnosis in small children because they cannot speak, nor [...]