Parenting: How to Help Your Firstborn Become Friends with the New Baby

It’s normal for a firstborn child to feel upset and unwanted when a new baby arrives. He or she is used to being the only child and had the family’s complete attention so far. So when your second bundle of joy arrives, he can easily feel jealous because he sees a most of the attention going... Read More →

Parenting: Ten Things You Can Do to Develop Your Baby’s Language Skills

The growth of your baby’s language skills is an amazing process. In the short space of a year, she goes from crying to speaking intelligible words. Can you do anything to help baby along? Apparently yes. There are ways to help the baby develop her language skills more easily and quickly. Keep in... Read More →

Parenting: Strategies to Get Your Baby to Sleep

As with most aspects of parenting, you’re sure to come across a wide variety of opinions about baby’s sleep! Friends, relatives and others have their views on how much sleep babies need, the best sleep routines and more. Here are some practical guidelines you can follow. They’ve worked... Read More →

Best Online Parenting Advice

All of us want to be the best parent we can be, but we sometimes doubt whether we are doing what’s best for our children. Good parenting skills are learned; we’re not born with them. But where should you go for parenting advice and tips? There are hundreds of parenting websites. Which ones... Read More →

Parenting Tip: 7 Ways to Master Storytelling and Mesmerize Your Child

Human beings have been telling stories for several millennia. And, as parents, we’ve all heard about the benefits of telling stories to our children. The only problem is that, as with so many things, no one ever teaches us how to tell a story. The best that most of us can do is to emulate our parents’... Read More →

Fraternal Twin Parenting Concerns

Identity and Your Fraternal Twin For the most part, throughout this article I refer to a fraternal twin in the singular rather than the plural “twins.” This is to emphasize the individuality of each twin. Too often twins are defined only by their being a part of a whole, rather than by their... Read More →

Positive Parenting and Latex Allergies

Learning to Live Positively with a Latex Allergy Your child has a latex allergy: Perhaps a mild allergy; perhaps a life-threatening one. Either way, you now have to help your child live with it. Of course, to do so, you need to be able to live with it. You’ve done all the research. You know to... Read More →