What do you say to a tween when her favorite TV star gets pregnant? That’s the situation facing parents with the news that Brittney Spears’ sister, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn, is pregnant. Jamie Lynn, the star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, is highly popular with the tween crowd. It’s impossible to shield girls from everyday life with it0s sexy commercials and peer pressure to dance like celebrities on MTV. It is possible to provide opportunities for girls to engage in educational, fun and wholesome activities that give them a positive self-image.
Mothers feel their daughter0s are growing up too fast. Girls hear provocative lyrics in songs without fully understanding what the words mean. Fashion magazines encourage outfits many mothers put in the category of 0pre-prostitute0. Schools offer sex-education classes beyond the developmental ability of many nine-year-olds. This is where creative parenting takes effect. After compiling hundreds of surveys from mothers and tweens, for my book, 12 Going on 29: Surviving Your Daughter’s Tween Years, two facts stand out. Mothers overwhelmingly wrote they wished they had taken a more conservative approach when dealing with their tween daughters. “I let her watch videos I didn’t think were appropriate, but all her friends were watching them”, […]
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There are ups and downs in parenting and there are chances of making plenty of mistakes along the way. One of the major challenge for you is the toddler discipline, how and when to do it.
Toddlers need discipline as it teaches responsibility, acceptable behavior and self control. Toddler discipline is nothing but teaching, guiding and nurturing your toddler. It takes patience and commitment to incorporate toddler discipline. But, it helps to put rules and limits early in toddler0s lives for their guidance.
No spanking! There are many ways of discipline, including but not limited to, spanking. Spanking is considered as hitting to impose pain in order to enforce toddler discipline. You should realize that spanking causes your toddler to fear and stop trusting you.
Spanking also builds anger, resentment and shame in your toddler and it can harm your relationship. Toddler0s self esteem and ability to have healthy relationships with others are affected by bad feelings which are developed by spanking.
Physical punishment is not good! Physical punishment makes your toddler grow resentful and feel there is something wrong with them to be treated so badly. If toddlers start to think that they are bad, they will act badly.
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We hear it more and more every day. Parents say, “My kids never stick to anything.” “My son started playing soccer and he didn’t like it, so he quit.” “My daughter began gymnastics lessons but she didn’t like it, so she quit.” We seem to be developing a generation of young people who give up before giving anything a real chance. Isn’t this something that all of us tried to do as youngsters? Give up when things got too tough. Thank goodness that our parents had the common sense to make us finish what we started and didn’t allow us to give up especially when things became too tough. What happened? Did the generation of parents, the 20, 30, and 40-year-old group, forget how to parent effectively? Congratulations to those of you who have the common sense to stay the course. For those who seem to have lost their common sense, I apologize if I upset you, but what gives? Doesn’t it sound a bit ridiculous to you when a 6 or 7 year old wakes up one morning and decides that he or she no longer wants to do something that he or she absolutely loved just yesterday or […]
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