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Being a good parent is about more than lukewarm milk and Newport Beach Security Systems for your homeyou’ve got to find a way to connect to your child during their formative years. Here are a few suggestions for bridging the gap between child and preteen:
Bring up tough subjects: Give your child the leniency to find out some things on their own and if they don’t, brooch the subject. Stuff like sex ed and smoking are great topics to get to before teenage years as is stealing and academic honesty.
Let them make mistakes: Allow your children to make some decisions on your own, even if you know they’re making the wrong one. As long as it’s nothing do or die they’ll learn from their mistakes and you’ll keep the trust building between the two of you.
Study them: See who your child is gravitating towards for friendship during this time and also what is happening with their school performance. This will help you be attuned to any changes that occur over the next few years as things get more complicated.

We all remember growing up with our favorite story. Although our parents almost surely got tired of reading them we just could not get enough. It didn’t really matter that it always ended the same, perhaps the consistency was even what made it so magical to us. There are some bedtime stories that will just never get old. These are the stories we will pass down to our children and hopefully they will pass down Read the rest of this entry »

Children today spend more time in front of computers and television than ever before. It seems evident that the more time children spend with visual entertainment the lower the average intelligence. Taking children to the library at a young age can help them develop a love for reading. Children who read consistently have better vocabularies and writing skills than those who do not.
Visiting a library can be a fun free family activity. For those with smaller children, most public libraries offer story times. These story times involve an adult expressively Read the rest of this entry »

Having you children to love reading is an important trait that will prove to be very beneficial to them. One of the best ways to be sure that your children truly has a love of reading is to read to them at a very early age. It is believed that a baby can hear the mother while still in the womb, this is when I started reading to my children. Start reading to them before they are born, and after they are born sit them on your lap Read the rest of this entry »

Children love the way their imagination can run wild when reading a book with great illustrations. Take a few minutes each day to read with your child. It creates a strong foundation for their love of the written word, and reminds us to just relax with our little ones. Here are a few kid tested favorites.

Where The Wild Things Are
A young boy stumbles upon a strange world and becomes the leader of the spooky inhabitants. Well Read the rest of this entry »