Every body deserves to love and to be loved. Love is what people need to make their life motivated and strength. Without love and caring from other people, we will feel the emptiness in life. Parents who have children should give their love and tenderness to them. Especially when they are still small children, they actually need the full time of love and caring from their parents. It is like a responsibility, commitment and consequence from parents.

But in today’s life where globalization is everywhere, the competition become tighter every day. To earn money is really important for both sides of parents. It seems that if only father who earns money; it will be not enough to fulfill the whole family’s financial need. The fact is, not only husband but also wife goes out from home to earn money and they leave their children at full day school or at home with baby sitter. Do their teacher and baby sitter will give the same love as their mother and father would give? The answer is absolutely not.

Mother is the center figure who must give lots of love and care to her children. It is like priority of her life. Mothers are able to work, but if they have small children, their prior responsibility is to take care her children and at home.

The caring and love that parents, especially mother can give to her children is starting from the awakening in the morning until at night they go to bed. This sounds so difficult. It has to be noticed that those fulltime mother will be harder in physical when the children are still small. Small children should be nurse more physically than mentally. But after the children grow older, they must be taken care more to their mental or psychology. Because in teenager moment is the important moment to give them lots of advice about life, build their mentality and personality.

Continue Reading >>

Bilingual children in poor families are at increased risk for falling behind in reading and language skills during the summer holidays, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Parents should provide these children with language-rich activities over the summer, says the ASHA, which offers the following tips:

* Talk to your child in the language you’re most comfortable using, even if it’s not the language used at school. For example, have more conversations with your child about what he or she did during the day, play board games together, work on a home project.
* Set aside time every day to read with your child.
* Enroll your child in summer camps and activities (some city- or YMCA-run camps are more affordable or offer sliding-scale fees for low-income families). This will help their language skills continue to grow.
* If your child enjoys spending time on the computer, direct him or her to Web sites that have fun, interactive language-based games that build vocabulary and reinforce topics learned at school.

source: Yahoo! News

As parents, we must be very thankful if we have a perfectly healthy baby. However, nowadays, we can find so many parents who are blessed with the special needs babies or children. We should never ever see it as a curse, but a bless from God because those parents are carrying a graceful duty. We should admit that taking care of babies or children with special needs more attention and patience. Here are so tips that hopefully make parents get stronger and be better parents.

The first thing we need to have is parent coordination and family support. On special needs parenting, there should be a tight cooperation and solidity between father and mother. They will face a harder work than other parents, so they should work as a strong team. The second thing that most parents forget is contracting the related organization. The organization such as one for children’s deaf is very beneficial because parents can share information including medical information and social treatment information.

The third thing parents have to do is providing the special need children with complete accommodation such as tools or special school. Even though the children are able to enter the regular school, but extra accommodation might be needed.

Each parent is using their own technique on the parenting, but I often find so many parents that have one wrong similarity: giving a bribe to their children. For example, when a child does not want to go neat his toys, mother will try to tell him to neat his toys over and over without any result, on the other side, the child will only assume that his mother is very talkative. Seeing the situation, father tells the child to neat his toys and father will give him a dollar. The child neat his toys directly without waiting too long.

Such technique might work effectively, but unfortunately the parents build a bad character to the child. If such thing becomes a habit, then the child will ask material value on everything they do. The character can stick to them even though he has become a grown up person. The bribe is giving a negative effect for the children, so it will be better if we are not using such method any longer.

Now the question is, how can we handle such situation? Such as telling the child to neat his toys, or eat the vegetables on the plate? Instead of bribing, it will be better if we treat them like adult and give them the understanding of how important and beneficial vegetables for our body or how important respecting our toys by put them on the shelf.

Babies and children are so sensitive to various germs and bacteria. Therefore, it is our duty as parents to make everything as hygiene as possible. Keeping the hygiene is not always mean using gallons of alcohol; some germs can be handled by using hot water or soap. Here are some tips that we can apply in our daily life with the children.

Some of us are only using baby wipes when we are replacing the baby’s diaper. Well, the baby wipes might look effective on cleaning our hand or baby’s skin, but the germs remains. To rid the germs away, we can wash our hands and baby’s skin with hot water and soap. If it is too complicated, then antiseptic liquid like gel or tissue with alcohol or antiseptic can be a good choice.

What we are going to do might seem too much, but we have to wash the bottle or pacifier that dropped on the floor or table even though it only touches the floor for about several seconds. In brief, to avoid germs, we have to keep whatever thing around our children clean. For the whole house, make sure that we vacuum all of the rugs, curtain or sofa to avoid dust, and mop the floor every day.