Category: Parenting

According to Familyeducation.com, twenty million kids register each year for youth hockey, football, baseball, soccer, and other competitive sports. The National Alliance for Sports reports that 70 percent of these kids quit playing these league …

One of your jobs as a parent is to encourage your child to learn and will provide strategies and methods to improve his academic performance and organizational skills, so that he can successfully complete homework …

As a mom who is concerned with healthy lifestyles, I am always intrigued to hear other families’ tips. So I thought you might like to hear a few of mine: –When you shop, let your …

A recent article in the Chicago Tribune regarding teaching your children life skills got me thinking. The idea was to give parents an idea of what functional skills should be taught and when. Around the …

As a young parent, I never voluntarily took my children out to a restaurant. If I had a choice between home or a restaurant, it was a no-brainer: we ate at home. Why go through …