The importance of antenatal care is often overdone in most households as the would-be mother is flooded with advice about what is right and what is wrong for her. When should you start? Make your first visit to an antenatal clinic as soon as possible after a missed period. This will ensure that you have professional help whenever you need …

One of the best ways to take the stress out of housework is to involve children in it. Chores are a good way to teach children to be responsible and to clean up after they’ve done with playing. Children yearn to be a part of the adult world – they are constantly playing at going to office, dressing up like …

In today’s competitive, fast-paced world it often happens that you have to juggle a demanding career with a family which demands equal attention. It commonly happens that parents come home late, exhausted from work only to find their child waiting patiently for them to take him out for dinner or a movie. It is then that the painful reality dawns …

Places conducive to relaxation offer better changes for caring relationships to develop, especially if children feel threatened. When you are about to tell a child something difficult, don’t do it in the middle of the playground, the middle of the street, the middle of a classroom, or the middle of a family. If it’s something that’s personal and perhaps difficult, …

Monday morning, 9 am, time to get to work. As you hastily down a sandwich, your three-year-old daughter rushes toward you. You know what’s going to happen next. As you sit with her, talking to her about all the interesting things that she will do during the day, she lets out a scream and begins to cry. The moment she …

Grown-up children living at home is not an uncommon phenomenon and there are many cases where a child still lives at home, even when he or she is 21. This is especially the case when the children study or work in the same city as their parents and still don’t have a family. However, they may not move out even …

There is a sharp rise in the number of children who are being raised by persons other than their parents and in majority of the cases, these persons are none other that the grandparents. However, bringing up your grandchildren is no easy task. Even though grandparents are experienced parents and are quite aware of the developmental needs of children, there …

After parents and teachers, it is the child’s friends who play a vital role in shaping his character. As parents, we should give due importance to his choice and pay attention to those he calls friends. Apart from family, the first relationship that a child forms in his own  right is with his peers. At a very young age itself, …

Still wondering what baby gift you can give to your child, to your niece, or to your friend’s son? The solution is very easy. You can go with books, cribs, clothes, and other stuff. But if you truly want to make children’s childhood really memorable and special, give them toys. With that being said, give them toys that would really …

So you want to ensure that your family follows the right diet. But you don’t know how to begin and with what types of foods. How about following the Food Pyramid guidelines? The Food Pyramid is an outline of what to eat each day based on some dietary guidelines. Far from being a rigid prescription it’s a general guide that …