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Maureen Healy is a child development expert and author of the forthcoming book 365 Perfect Things to Say to Your Kids. See full bio

May 2, 2009, Child Development

Comments on "Positive Parenting"

Positive Parenting

By Maureen Healy on May 2, 2009 in Creative Development

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

Isn't that the truth! Having a child somehow cracks your heart open further than ever imagined. And parents today are parenting from the heart. It is shift towards authentic parenting. Read More

Mother Nature Parenting Advice

Submitted by Hendrie Weisinger on May 2, 2009 - 6:36pm.

There is no better expert in parenting than Mother Nature-she has raised all sorts of kids. Accordingly, from an evolutionary perspective, here are her parenting tips:
1. prioritize your children-do you play golf on a Saturday or hang with them, do you buy a Lexus or save for thier college. There is no right answer, just indicators to your priorities
2. provide a safe and secure environment for them (considering the amount of home accidents, kids whose medical needs are ignored, and the amount of child abuse,providing a safe and secure enviornment is not as common as we think)
3. do interactive activities (early ancestors who did this increased family bonds and learning of values)
4. educate your children (formal or informal, education allows your children to be mobile).

If you follow these applications of your hardwiring "care-giving" instinct, you will practice positive prenting. For more on enhancing your parenting effectiveness, read the new book, The Genius of Instinct: Reclaim Mother Nature's Tools For Enhancing Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Work(FT, April 2009)

The IKE Disease

Submitted by Roger D. Casterline on May 3, 2009 - 4:42am.

I see many good writings advising parents on raising their children. "The IKE Disease," is different in that it encourages the reader (teenagers) to make choices leading to a successful, happy life. For more information please visit my website at: www.eloquentbooks.com/TheIkeDisease.html God Bless!!!

I second your opinion on this

Submitted by konnie on May 3, 2009 - 9:24pm.

I second your opinion on this matter. Personally I have a child that suffers from ADD, and this aspect of child development has left me puzzled on the options that I can take up. Sometimes I am just at my wit's end.

Parenting style app

Submitted by DavidM on May 4, 2009 - 6:28am.

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The underlying model developed by our team of psychologists reveals an underlying complexity far richer than just 'strict' or 'relaxed' classifications.

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