If you and your partner have different parenting styles, it’s important to learn to compromise, communicate, and present a united front. This can ease a lot of stress for you and your family. Read more: How Do You Deal With Parenting Differences? Article
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Top 10 Parenting Mistakes- Children, Infants, Toddlers
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Parenting: 10 Tips for Eco-Friendly Parenting
Use these ideas to create a greener environment for your baby. WebMD gives you some earth-friendly parenting suggestions.
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9 Things a Stepparent Should Never Do
Becoming a stepparent comes with its challenges. Things a stepparent should never do include trying too hard to please, imposing your own rules without an agreement, setting expectations too high and other things.
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How Does Single Parenting Affect a Child?
A single parent brings up a child without the assistance of a partner. The effect of single parenting on a child may be good or bad.
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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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What Are a Father’s Roles and Responsibilities in Parenting?
The role of fathers in modern households has significantly changed. A father's responsibilities in parenting include supporting the family, acting as an authority figure, being trustworthy and fostering their childrens' cognitive development.
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Why Is Stepparenting Harder Than Parenting?
You may find stepparenting harder than parenting because you expect too much, as many stepparents do. You may believe that love will occur quickly and naturally.
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What Is It Like to Be a Parent of an Autistic Child?
When you are the parent of a child with autism, the challenges multiply. Being a parent of an autistic child may cause you to feel guilt, grief, anxiety, frustration, and anger.
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What Are 5 Positive Parenting Skills?
Being a parent comes with its share of challenges and woes. The 5 positive parenting skills are to be encouraging, be responsive, set the example, set boundaries, and be interactive.
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Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety disorder is a common childhood anxiety disorder that has many causes. Infants, children, older kids and adults can suffer from symptoms of separation anxiety disorder. Common separation anxiety treatment methods include therapy and medications. Factors that contribute to how quickly or successfully a child moves past separation anxiety by preschool age include how well the parent and child reunite, the skills the child and adult have at coping with the separation, and how well the adult responds to the infant's separation issues. For example, children of anxious parents tend to be anxious children.
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Can Having a Baby Save Your Marriage or Relationship?
All relationships take work and commitment. Instead of thinking that having a baby can save your marriage or relationship, it's best to work on your relationship before parenthood to feel happiest and most fulfilled.
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What Parenting Styles Cause Anxiety?
There are times when your child will feel anxious about different things — this is perfectly normal. Authoritarian parenting, which uses stern, harsh behavior with children, can lead to moderately-high levels of anxiety, depression, and withdrawal.
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What 5 Qualities Make a Good Dad?
Your parenting will have a real effect on what kind of grown-up your child becomes. The five qualities that make a good dad are that they are involved, encourage independence, discipline appropriately, work with the other parent and they are financially responsible.
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What Is the 3-3-3 Rule for Anxiety?
Parenting a young child can be tough. The 3-3-3 rule is a mindfulness technique that's simple enough for young children and it asks them to name three things they can see, identify three sounds they can hear, and move three different parts of their bodies.
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What Is the Best Way to Tell Your Child You're Getting a Divorce?
Telling children about divorce is hard. The best way to tell your child you're getting a divorce is to do so as soon as possible after you have made up your mind to divorce or separate.
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What Mistakes Do New Parents Make?
All new parents do their best to take care of their babies and toddlers. But no matter how prepared you feel, you’re still learning along the way. Use these tips to avoid nine common mistakes new parents make.
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How Do I Deal with Mother's (Dad's) Guilt?
Being a parent gets you in touch with your protective side. Deal with mother's or dad's guilt by having realistic expectations, ditching perfectionism, envisioning success, being mindful of parenting content you take in and being compassionate with yourself.
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