In education, it is very important not to leave a child completely to the schools. There are activities, which must be done at school, and there are ones, which have to be done at home. Certainly, parents have to involve (till definite degree) in the process of schooling their child, as well as continue educative [...]
Raising a teenager is probably the hardest stage of parenting, because parents have to deal with already formed personality with his or her own viewpoints, who has a lot of inner misunderstandings and fears, who has daily struggles and fights with many dangers and temptations, who is still looking for answers, what is right and [...]
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Undoubtedly, parenting does not start with the birth of a child. Scientific researches proved that unborn children gain abilities to sense, to feel and even to remember, being yet in mother’s womb. That is why they are always affected by mom’s physical or psychological condition. Besides, they are totally dependent on their moms in nutrition. [...]
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Of course, it is very difficult to be a good parent. Effective parenting requires a lot of efforts, as well as, undoubtedly, some special knowledge and experience. That is why nowadays it is possible to take so called “parenting classes”, both in person and on-line. Such schools and programs for effective parenting offer all necessary [...]
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No feeling and no experience can be compared to being a parent. Raising children is very exciting and significant period of life, which is connected with tons of new experiences, changes, discoveries, and, certainly, with huge responsibility. In all hardness of our times, parenting remains to be a great challenging endeavor. Generally speaking, parenting includes [...]
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Teenage pregnancy to a great extend affects and limits young mother’s future prospects as to her personal development, professional career and other potential achievements. Statistic shows that only about 30% of teenagers, who became parents before the age of 18, have a high school diploma, and only 1.5% of them have a degree of college [...]
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Despite of steadily decreasing rates of teenage pregnancy within the last decades in our country, this problem remains among the topical issues in modern American society, along with obesity, AIDS and drug abuse. In 2002 the rate of teenage births (from 15 to 19 years) totaled about 11% of all the births in the United [...]
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Another major factor in the increase of obese children is the sudden lack of physical activity. Children watch an average of four hours of TV a day. From toddlers to teens American youth are spending a substantial part of the day of their lives using media. Even the very youngest children, preschoolers ages six and [...]
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Although, at the end of the day it is the parents choice as to what a child may eat keep in mind that with the demands given today children are eating the majority of their meals outside of the home. With more women working outside of the home, a lot of the marketing is being [...]
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Obesity has been a growing epidemic in the United States for many years now. More over has been now the number of obese children currently. There are many factors involved with the growth of obesity especially in children. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services many notable trends have played a [...]
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