You cannot create motivation in somebody else. This is the danger of strong parents, who feel that because they are personally motivated, they can lay their motivation on the heads of their children. Motivation is internal, and there's a very simplistic formula for what is motivating.

Weight gain is a ubiquitous reality of pregnancy. You’re pregnant, and that means you’re supposed to gain weight. However, it is still important to know how much weight to gain and when to gain it. Too much weight gain increases your chances of gestational diabetes, hypertension, and complications during labor. Too little weight gain puts you at an increased risk for early labor and delivery. A woman who is average weight before getting pregnant should gain 25 to 35 pounds after becoming pregnant. Underweight women should gain 28 to 40 pounds.

It is common knowledge to put infants to sleep on their backs to prevent sudden infant death syndrome. While this practice is the safest way for your baby to sleep, too much time in a supine position has drawbacks for your baby – head flattening, or plagiocephaly, and diminished muscle strength. Tummy time is a method for counteracting all of those hours your baby has spent sleeping on their back by helping your infant build strength in their back, legs, arms, and neck. Babies will either roll over independently or will be safely placed on their bellies to promote strength and development.

The pros and cons of circumcision is something that's hotly debated right now. The pros of circumcision is that it does reduce the risk of cancer of the penis from almost nothing to more or less nothing. It does seem to reduce the risk of getting HIV or AIDS by about 50 percent. It does also reduce the risk of getting HPV or papilloma virus infection, which can cause cancer in the woman and the man. Also, it may reduce other infections. The cons of circumcision, or the disadvantages, that it's a surgical procedure. It requires, usually, some anesthesia.

Why Join Teen Sports ? Being involved in your teen’s activities is important – especially if it’s teen sports. Teen sports do wonders for the body, mind and spirit. Your teen will learn about good sportsmanship, develop a healthy respect for others, learn to think as part of a team without losing their individualism and feel the thrill of winning and learn to deal with the agony of defeat.

Getting better in sports or any achievement activity is a process and it's not an outcome. So what I talk about in sports all the time is you can have a success oriented mindset or an excellence oriented mindset. And an excellence mindset will provide far more long-term success than just focusing on today's outcome or this week's outcome, because people who focus on excellence, they focus on the process of getting a little bit better every day. Failure is a part of excellence. It's okay to make a mistake. It's okay to lose a game.

Based on the gender someone is attracted to defines their sexual orientation. Sexual orientations are generally described as:

Straight/Heterosexual -attracted to the opposite sex
Gay/Lesbian/Homosexual -attracted to the same sex
Bisexual -attracted to members of both sexes

“Some babies get their first tooth at 3 months, some at 4, and some don't get that first tooth until around 14 or 15 months,” says pediatric dentist, Dr. Michelle Kelman. Symptoms of teeth normally start about three to five days before the tooth shows and will cease as soon as the tooth breaks through, although some babies are not agitated by teething.

Communication is the key to cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development in children. Before your baby develops the ability to communicate verbally, their primary way to communicate with you is crying. Baby Sign Language is a way of giving your infant or toddler the ability to express their emotions and needs via gestures. To understand the benefits of Baby Sign and begin learning how to incorporate sign into your baby’s life, Kids in the House has compiled advice from leading speech pathologists and baby sign language experts.