Category: Parenting

Parenting

  • Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change

    KatPauls

    Drug Addiction – Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change Often, poems and inspirational sayings can help lift spirits and focus on the important things in life. When you are battling a drug addiction, poems can help keep you focused and on track with recovery. It can motivate you toward action and… Read more

  • Effects Of Single Parenting

    KatPauls

    Effects Of Single Parenting Unveiling the Possible Effects of Single Parenting Times are rapidly changing. The elderly always argue that the modern culture has forsaken and outgrown the values taught and instilled by old customs, beliefs and traditions. Moralists and conservative people are almost always raising their brows and expressing disgust over how current belief… Read more

  • LOSS OF A PARENT (divorce, death, abandonment)

    KatPauls

    LOSS OF A PARENT (divorce, death, abandonment) When kids and parents go through this tumultuous turbulent transformational time in their lives, there is a lot of things happening at once. It is up to the sole custodian parent to be their solid rock and foundation, secure, safe and soft spot to land and fall, rely… Read more

  • SIX KEYS TO UNLOCKING COMMUNICATION IN YOUR NEW FAMILY

    KatPauls

    SIX KEYS TO UNLOCKING COMMUNICATION IN YOUR NEW FAMILY: Key1 Expressing thoughts and emotions openly and honestly and sharing experiences, fears, uncertainties, feelings, memories, pain, hurt, loss, concern, worries and more.  It is healthy to talk about how and what we feel, need,  desire and want – even what we miss. It helps us heal… Read more

  • Children Of Single Parents And Crime Rates

    KatPauls

    Children Of Single Parents And Crime Rates Single Parents and The Rise of Crime Rates Among Children The hardest thing to face as a single parent are the intense emotions associated with being both a mother and a father to a child. This is further magnified when the other parent is absent or is deliberately… Read more

  • Challenge of Parenting

    KatPauls

    Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown THE CHALLENGE THAT IS PARENTING Whoever said parenting was easy must be daft or has not experienced being a parent at all. Child rearing is a continuous process and does not stop even after the child… Read more

  • The price of a hug

    KatPauls

    No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. How This Simple Act of Affection Yields Major Gains in the Child’s Health, Disposition, and Overall Development In a November 2005 issue of the “The Straits Times”, a leading Singapore daily… Read more

  • Does your teenager have good self esteem ?

    KatPauls

    We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers Self-Esteem: Your Child’s Armor Against Danger As parents, we fear the worst for our children. We see an imperfect world, where strangers and circumstances can discourage, frighten, harm, or endanger our… Read more

  • Hello? Why my teenager cannot talk to me ?

    KatPauls

    Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of… Read more

  • How to help your child make good choices?

    KatPauls

    The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. ~Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls Helping Our Children Make Good Choices What can parents do now to prepare their kids in the right direction towards thinking for themselves and making good (or better) choices? Experience tells us that prudence… Read more