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A Chic and Easy Valentine Dinner at Home By the Fire
Valentines Day is a special day to tell your loved one how much you appreciate and care for him. What better way to celebrate but at home in front of a fire! Most men are intimidated by planning a dinner at home and many working moms just dont have …
Simple Tips for Keeping Your Family Organized
After a long day of work, I want my evenings with my son to be quality timenot hours spent trying to find things, remember things and manage the chaos. Ive always found that a little bit of organization goes a long way, and that, with the …
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR ONLY CHILDREN: How Pressure to be Perfect Can Backfire
Families are getting smaller, and have been since the early 1960s, giving parents more time to devote to each child. As a result, parents today all seem to be pushing for star progeny. Children would benefit if parents could temper their dreams. With parents of only children, the tendency …
Why Is My Daughter Friends with THAT Kid?
Dear Melissa, When my daughter Ingrid started kindergarten this September, she took an instant liking to another little girl, Jackie. We like Jackie’s family well enough and think Jackie is mostly a sweet girl, but we feel she is very different from our little one and this concerns us. Our daughter, Ingrid, is an only child in other words, she has the constant attention and guidance of two adults! — and she is the queen of enrichment classes, such as ballet, French, and experimental art classes. Ingrid’s ability to focus is excellent. She has been reading since she was four. She loves museums and sports. She is a quietly happy kid.
How to Parent an Only Child
Adapted from Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only A parent’s approach to rearing has far more to do with the child’s behavior and eventual outcome than does the number of siblings he does or doesn’t have. Most …