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Don’t Let Them Label Your Children
The entirety of this website is dedicated to showing simple, easy things that one can do to be a more effective parent, and to help you raise happy, healthy, competent children. In acting as editor...
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My Kids – Photos By Months
Now that I’m accumulating a wealth of cute photos of my two kids, I figured I’d do a little page from 0-2 yrs old, comparing them by months. My son is pushing 11 months old, and my daughter is now a...
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Quote of the Day: A Child’s Right to Self-Determinism
This is one piece of Scientology that I try to apply as best I can – and it’s a constantly-changing game as the kids get older – trying to preserve their own self-determinism. The quote above, from...
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Traveling with Children on the Train
One of the many things I have in common with my kids, is that I love riding on trains. So, in case you don’t feel like reading the whole article below, I’ll summarize in a sentence for my American...
View ArticleOur Second Au Pair
You may have read earlier that for the previous year, we’ve had an au pair in our house from Brazil. The experience was fantastic. I wrote about it a bit here, but I think the slideshow above should...
View ArticleFive Road Warrior’s Tips for Flying with Small Children
I’ve travel a lot. Part of my work involve being in the air getting to client’s offices all across the country. Next week, I embark on a 5-day 4-city hop across three time zones. It will be hectic,...
View ArticleDivorced Parents, Bitter Relatives, and the Health of your Children
It’s no secret that parents splitting up can cause deep and far-reaching negative effects on children and their physical as well as mental well-being. And, as a divorced parent (or even one who’s...
View ArticleTwo Mistakes to Guarantee a Miserable Flight with Small Children
Last week I shared 5 tips for flying with small children. These are tips I picked up over many flights, but they definitely were not learned without pitfalls. So, I thought it might be insightful to...
View ArticleMy Children Love to Help
I’ve got two kids, an 18 month-old son and a 2 1/2 year-old daughter, and I wanted to give you a little story about the value of allowing kids to help out around the house, and in the family. When my...
View ArticleToddlers Want to Help
I wrote about it before, but I’m constantly reminded of how therapeutic it is for children to simply allow them
View ArticleA Fantastic Saturday Outdoors
A Fantastic Saturday Outdoors, a set on Flickr. We had a great time enjoying a 70-degree-and-sunny April day, outside basically
View ArticlePhoto Tips for Shooting Toddlers & Babies
If a photographer is defined as one who is so good at it that people pay them for their photos,
View Article4th of July Fireworks for the Munchkins
It was the first 4th of July Fireworks for both of my kids this year, as my daughter missed out
View ArticleThe Importance of Cultivating a Child’s Imagination
“DADDY! There’s FIREWORKS on ME!” No sooner had I turned my back from her, I found out that my 22-month-old
View ArticleCute Story: My 2-year-old Getting an Assist from a 3-year-old
Yesterday, my wife was at home all day watching our kids, plus one of my 2-year-old daughter’s best friends, James
View ArticleEven Babies Need Acknowledgements
The very same basics that are used with adults to communicate with other adults absolutely apply to babies as well,
View ArticleThese Terrible Twos Aren’t Too Terrible
After writing earlier articles about how much I’ve been consciously trying to allow my daughter to help around the house,
View ArticleOn-Line Learning for Toddlers: First ABCMouse.com Review
After going to pre-school for a few years, my kids (ages 3 & 4 1/2) are right now taking a
View ArticleIndustrious Kids are Happy Kids
Quote from L. Ron Hubbard‘s book The Way to Happiness, precept – “Be Industrious”. The easiest way I’ve found
View Article6 Tips for Small Children (and their Parents) who are Scared of the Dentist
I’m sure most parents wouldn’t count “Going to the Dentist” as one of their top-10 recreational activities for small children.
View Article4082 Miles with a Pair of Toddlers – or, the Utterly Epic Cross-Country...
This summer, my family completed an epic move across the country from Silver Spring, MD in the DC area to
View ArticleAllowing Children to Contribute
Parents do a bazillion things for their kids. It’s part of being a parent. After a while, though,
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