children
Children: Our most valuable natural resource.
The Fight For His Mind
Lately he's taken to sleeping in my room, my eleven-year-old. It isn't nightmares keeping him awake and robbing us both of peace, it's the panic. Hours into what I insist will be a quick article on anxiety I finally commit to print what I've easily admitted out loud; My son's anxiety and OCD are suffocating me. The feelings that wash over me as I look across the room to watch him sleep, are not what any mother should have to experience. At the sight of my sleeping son, afloat in the largeness of my bed, I am filled with a heady mixture of love and sorrow…fear and panic.
By Cameo Rodriquez6 years ago in Families
Play! Inspiring Creativity with Children in Isolation
Many of us are now being required to stay at home due to COVID-19, and this is so challenging when you have young children at home. While many schools are switching to remote learning, I have noticed how anxious many parents are about assisting their children in their education while keeping them busy in isolation. I empathize with this stress, and that is why I wanted to share with you some resources to help make your time at home more enjoyable for you and your children!
By Ashley Nestler, MSW6 years ago in Families
Importance of Inspirational Thoughts and Quotes for Kids
The current generation of kids is growing up with a lot of stress and pressure from academics and other co-curricular activities. Even when you try, you cannot help your children avoid these stress-related situations. This is why it has been observed that almost every school inculcates certain motivational values within the kids so that they can handle the daily pressure. As a parent, it is your responsibility to make sure that you are preparing your kids for the challenges that he is going to face. According to inc.com, the right inspirational quotes can help in boosting your kids to move forward. Given below is a list of the reasons why inspirational quotes are important for your kids.
By Sujain Thomas7 years ago in Families
Goodnight Stories for Multiracial Children:
Breanna Carter Graduate Student at the University of South Florida Abstract: This critical content analysis examines two children’s books made for multiracial children that were published between 2013 and 2015 and how they can be used as tools for mothers to guide their children through the racial climate of the U.S. today. These books can be used as tools for mothers of multiracial children to help their children self-identify as multiracial. The theoretical framework used in this study is social identity theory (SIT) (Bilig & Tajfel, 1973; Hogg, Terry, & White, 1995). The results of this study indicate that (1) hair, (2) outside perceptions, and (3) multiracial celebration/positivity are found in the two multiracial children’s books to be used by mothers to help multiracial children identify in U.S. culture.
By Breanna Latoi7 years ago in Families
My baby girl
Today I will write about my personal experience with postpartum. Women have generally talk to me about how hard it is to raise a baby and those sleepless nights but what they haven’t mentioned is how we mentally and psychically feel after having our babies. Those first few weeks after given birth was truly hard for me and sometimes even now I get those days where I just wanna lay in bed and cry all day. Postpartum starts right after you give birth to your baby but not every women experience are the same or even how long it last.
By Wendy Sepulveda7 years ago in Families
I'm Sorry I Mispelled Your Made Up Name
It's 3 days before Valentine's day and I open up my daughter's book bag to go through her folder of homework and things sent home and in the pile is a pink piece of paper that says "Valentine's Day Party" on it. I pull out the paper to read it, as I do every single year, and can't help but say out loud "What the hell is our world coming to?!" On the sheet of paper is a paragraph about the classroom's Valentine party and exchange of Valentine's Day cards and under it a list of 23 names. Of those 23 names only about 4 were "traditional" names. And many of the names had really crazy spellings. Some of the names were so long, I knew there was no way my 8 year old daughter was going to be able to write the names on the cards herself since she still writes large and not very neatly (thank you whoever decided we should not teach handwriting in schools anymore).
By BeautifulDreamer7 years ago in Families
