2007 June » Parent Plaza

There are many parenting milestones that will occur during a child's lifetime. Some of those milestones occur before the child is born or at home. There are many other milestones that will occur at a daycare center and the parents are likely to miss many of those. Ultrasound photographs will be the first milestone that [...]

Many new parents have a lot of questions but never ask them because they feel that they should already know the answers.Some of the most frequently wondered about questions deal with a baby development. It is common for parents to question if their baby's development is progressing the way it should be.Things like…my baby isn't [...]

Parenting can be hard enough without a solid parenting plan to help guide you through some of the potential pitfalls. Without a solid plan, your parenting skills may be put to the test more than you wish they would be and you may wind up making some awkward decisions that could greatly affect your family. [...]

Many new parents have a lot of questions but never ask them because they feel that they should already know the answers.Some of the most frequently wondered about questions deal with a baby development. It is common for parents to question if their baby's development is progressing the way it should be.Things like…my baby isn't [...]

Let us hope that your child will not experience any major trauma in his or her developing years. But even if a trauma should occur, it doesn't have to be a "life-shattering event." More than fifty years of research, beginning with the study of children who experienced the London bombings in World War II, has [...]

It is almost a given that any child deemed old enough to use an Internet chat room is also mature enough to grasp there are some very bad people in the world. To help keep youngsters safe while still allowing them to enjoy the communication the Internet allows, many parents school their children on chat [...]

There are many different aspects of parenting that qualify as alternative parenting, including Christian parenting, gay parenting and surrogate parenting. All of these are somewhat normative in that they involve loving sets of parents that take care of their children, but many of the details can create a stir in the hearts and minds of [...]

The best parenting books are the ones that are written by those with a story to tell about their own experiences. It can be difficult to want to even look at a parenting book featuring authorship by a person that is not even a parent, as his or her advice is typically coming from a [...]