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The bond between a grandfather and his grandchildren is often unlike any other relationship. Here are ten ideas for helping your kids celebrate and honor Grandpa this Father's Day.1. Ask each of the grandkids to draw a picture of themselves enjoying time with Grandpa and to include a note letting him know how they [...]

What is the best gift you can give to your three-year-old son and or daughter? Should you give them a box of crayons and a coloring book? Or should you buy them a stuffed animal? They say that babies reach the age of discovery when they turn three. So it is important to provide [...]

Kids long for connection, and technology is fulfilling that desire by allowing them access to worlds beyond their own neighborhoods. But with this vast expansion of opportunity comes a need for balance and consciousness. Kids still long to connect in "real time" with those they love.In an online survey I asked 1,500 kids "What do [...]

There are many different aspects of parenting that qualify as alternative parenting, including Christian parenting, gay parenting and surrogate parenting.Some Important Facts About Parenting, parenting skills:1. Most of us want to become an effective and model parents for our children.2. Emerging technologies have only made parenting that much more challenging.3. Christian parenting, gay parenting and [...]

When you have a child and they are old enough to walk, then they are old enough to begin looking at playing instruments.Many of the greatest musicians in the history of music have started out incredibly early. Mozart himself was playing the piano at the age of three and composing operas before he was 10 [...]

So you are a parent and would like your kids to get better at science. What do you do? Buy them more and more books on science. Get them science kits, chemistry sets, do it yourself experiments, models that they can build?The answers are tough to find. But since we are in the age of [...]

Attachment parenting means kids are breastfed until they choose to stop - four, five, six years of age. Let us be honest, all of us wants to be the best parents for our child and who wouldn't. There are many different aspects of parenting that qualify as alternative parenting, including Christian parenting, gay parenting and [...]

Let's face it, parenting is hard enough without having the consistent ramblings of a few know-it-alls baffling the particulars of public debate. There are lots of aspects of parenting that qualify as alternative parenting, including Christian parenting, gay parenting and surrogate parenting. There are many different parenting tips you are able to receive but you [...]