Category: My Family
Ideas to help your child become a good reader
Everyone wants their child to succeed, and being able to read well is very important to do well in school and beyond. But we also want our children to enjoy reading rather than see it as a chore or something that they have to do. 1) Talk to your child and interact with them verbally.…
Dietary Patterns for Teen Weight Loss
A balanced diet is essential for teenagers to continue to grow. Frequent dieting always results in suppression of growth and at times weight gain also. Diets, which are meant for adults, do not suit adolescents. Overweight in teenagers is caused by lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns or a combination of both. Genetics and…
How to Make Home Schooling Fun for Your Child
Being a parent, one of the pleasures of life is seeing your child off to school. You watch them go with the knowledge that you are providing them with the lifelong tools that will allow them to succeed. There are, or a many conditions that lie in wait in school, you might even wonder if…
Control Your Health Destiny
Health Savings Accounts or HSA’s are growing in popularity. Currently, it is estimated that there over 3 million HSA owners, and by 2010, the Treasury Department estimates as many as 45 million Americans will be covered by HSA plans. So what is an HSA, and how can it help you pay for medical bills? With…
Money Management For Kids – When Do Kids Get a Credit Card?
It’s never too soon to talk to kids about money, and as for a card, it’s best to start them on one before they leave home, say perhaps when they are a junior or senior in high school. Let me give an example. Before my daughter left for college, she got a checking account, linked…
Healthy and Safe Exercises for Children
It’s important that children get a lot of exercise. While it is easy to keep them occupied with television, DVDs, video games, and a playroom full of toys, it is not always so easy to get them moving. Varying the types of exercises you want the children to do and treating exercise as play time…
Tips for Getting a Well-Rounded Education for your Child
One of the best ways that you can help your child succeed academically is by helping them to get a well-rounded education. While some education takes place inside the classroom, the home can also be a good learning environment and there are things that you can do to help encourage your child to get a…
Learn Spanish for children
If you are a parent you might be trying to think of a way to get your kid to learn Spanish. With the amount of Spanish migrants that are migrating all over the globe and if you teach them Spanish when they are young, they will never forget. Eventually, your child will benefit in the…
Teenagers increasingly getting high off prescription drugs
Prescription drug abuse among teenagers has become so prevalent in recent years that one in five high school students report having illicitly used at least one such drug. The findings come from the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Adolescent and School…
Consequences of sleep deprivation for teenagers
Many teenagers miss out on a full night’s sleep during the school week which impacts on school performance, attention, memory, and has been identified as a cause of weight gain in children. The study led by Professor Olds (University of South Australia) of more than 4000 children 9-18 is the first large-scale study of sleeping…