The relationship that siblings have with each other is vital to their character development, their sense of personal history and even the happiness they feel in old age. A positive relationship with a brother or a sister in childhood will result in a best friend for life. It is often the longest and most important relationship we can have, which is why it is so important for parents to nurture it from the start.
Congratulations on becoming a parent!
Have you decided how you are going to raise your child?
Chances are, before your baby is even born, everyone around you has already formed a strong opinion about which parenting style is best. But, how you decide to parent will ultimately depend on your lifestyle, personality and your baby’s temperament.
As these summer days begin to wind down, the last thing you should be thinking about is winter, right? That is, unless you’re planning the winter family holiday of a lifetime.
While they may have just been born yesterday, babies are pretty clever. They can suck on their thumbs, fingers, and even fists to soothe themselves. It’s a biological imperative called non-nutritive sucking, meaning they aren't sucking for food or any nutrients like they would when breastfeeding.
"Co-sleeping next to your baby is incomparable" says James McKenna, PhD.
We were able to show in a sleep laboratory that the same mom-baby pair sleeping together over successive nights varied tremendously in the amount of breastfeeds the baby would get by virtue of the baby either sleeping in bed with the mother and/or sleeping in another room very close by. Indeed it really surprised us, it was almost like two different families that were being measured.
For a new parent, every extra minute of sleep is gold. Learning how to help your baby to sleep longer is a way to avoid painful sleep training for the baby and sleep deprivation for parents. The trick is to catch your baby as they're starting to wake up and see if you can gently soothe them back to sleep. Elizabeth Pantley is one of the world's leading experts on how to get babies to sleep.
Discipline tends to focus on changing children: teaching them to have more respect and self-control and punishing wrongdoings so that the negative behavior is extinguished. Which is why it often fails. Great discipline focusses on changing parents, not fixing kids.
Technology in education has become the new trend that is being followed when designing lesson plans and course work in a variety of leading institutes and organizations. While this seems like an alluring option for the children, as parents there are numerous thoughts and queries that come to mind when it comes to e-learning. Listed below are some extremely important questions that parents must ask before enrolling their kids in such curriculums.
Additional Resources:
Books:
Brill, Stephanie A. The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Eaklor, Vicki L., Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States (New Press People’s History)
Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Green, Eli R. and Luca Maurer. The Teaching Transgender Toolkit (Available through http://www.teachingtransgender.org/)
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History
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