What To Expect From Your Twelve Year Old
As they stand on the precipice of becoming official teenagers, this can be a challenging time for the twelve year old and their parents. Physical/Health Your twelve year old child will continue to experience growth spurts and may start developing adolescent sleeping patterns. Children at this age need on average 10 hours sleep. Girls: For […]
10 Things No One Tells You About Parenting A Tween
It’s not just teens that bring the heat – parenting a tween can be really challenging. Here are some things you need to know! Let’s face it, there are a lot of childhood stages that have a bad rap. There are the relentless newborn days (or daze!) and the terrible toddler years. Then there’s the […]
Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online
In today’s society it is very difficult to keep kids off the internet. Online activity has swiftly become a part of everyday life. We are all aware of the dangers that are out there, but thankfully there are also many options which allow us to monitor our children’s actions online. To do this, you don’t […]
Changing Perspective Really Does Help
Have you ever had that feeling when you are so busy with your child that it just becomes too much? I question myself so much in the choices I make as a parent, especially when they enter a new phase. I am just starting to feel confident in raising two small boys and now they […]
The Dawn Of The Tweens – I Was Not Prepared
Do you know how many results you get when you search the word “Tweens” on Google? An astronomical 12,700,000 entries and counting. That is absolutely mind boggling. I have two boys, ages 11 and nearly 10. The youngest son is turning 10 in May and he cannot wait to enter the double digit phase. “Why on earth […]