Giving your children chores has benefits that will last a lifetime. Good chores for a child between 5 and 8 years of age include making their bed, picking out their clothes, putting dirty clothes in the hamper, and other activities. Read more: What Are Good Chores for a Young Child (5 to 8 Years)? Article
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What Are the 5 Stages of Child Development?
Children undergo various changes in terms of physical, speech, intellectual, and cognitive development until adolescence. The five stages of child development include the newborn, infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age stages.
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How Do You Know if Your Child Is Manipulating You?
Children are unbelievably intuitive and smart. As they get older, you know if your child is manipulating you if they say hurtful things, are disrespectful, ignore you, refuse to talk to you and do other manipulative things.
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Parenting
Good parenting helps foster empathy, honesty, self-reliance, self-control, kindness, cooperation, and cheerfulness, says Steinberg, a distinguished professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia. It also promotes intellectual curiosity, motivation, and desire to achieve. It helps protect children from developing anxiety, depression, eating disorders, antisocial behavior, and alcohol and drug abuse.
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Children's Health
Children's health is focused on the well-being of children from conception through adolescence. There are many aspects of children's health, including growth and development, illnesses, injuries, behavior, mental illness, family health, and community health.
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When Should I Worry About My Child’s Development?
Learn the different types of delayed development and find out about the different warning signs of developmental delays.
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