Family  /  Kids & Teens

  • How Do You Encourage Self Confidence in Girls?

    Several studies show that girls' self-esteem and self-confidence tends to decline after about age nine as girls enter puberty. How do you encourage self confidence and increase self esteem during these early years? There [...]

  • How to Help Your Child Manage Money

    Money plays an important role in our society. A person's ability to earn, spend, and save money influences their success in life as well as a person's skills in managing and sharing their money and their willingness to r [...]

  • Music Education for Children

    Studies have shown that music and music training provide a wealth of educational benefits to children. Early exposure to music has been proven to help develop areas of the brain responsible for language and reasoning ski [...]

  • Raising a Child Who Appreciates Music

    Music is an important part of life for both children and adults. We use music to relax, to motivate our physical activity, and simply because music is fun and enjoyable. An appreciation of music can increase creativity a [...]

  • Talk to Your Child About Alcohol - Introduction

    With so many drugs available to young people these days, you may wonder, Why develop a booklet about helping kids avoid alcohol? Alcohol is a drug, as surely as cocaine and marijuana are. It's also illegal to drink under [...]

  • Tips for Traveling with Children

    Family vacations and daytrips are fun and memorable events that are often cherished memories throughout life, but getting to your destination may not be so pleasant. Even with modern DVD players, extended trips with smal [...]

  • Benefits Of Gardening For Kids

    Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It's as simple as starting wit [...]

  • Why Rear Facing Child Safety Seats Are Safest

    What is the safest, a forward or rear facing child safety seat? Everyone has a different answer on this and many states have different laws governing the age, weight or size of the child or infant in question. By looking [...]

  • How To Prevent Child Obesity

    In America today, it is estimated that over 65% of the population is overweight with around 30% being at least clinically obese. Even more alarming is the estimation that 15% to 20% of the country's children are overweig [...]

  • What To Do When Your Child Is Overweight

    With your busy day to day schedule with work and things to do at home, you don't often notice some of the things that are right in front of you every day. At times, you may sit back and suddenly realize that your child h [...]