Parenting
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How to Know if You Have Postpartum Depression
This article was originally published on momminghard.com. After having a baby, your body is riddled with pregnancy and labor-related hormones. It takes a while for your hormone levels to settle back to normal. These hormones can often upset your emotional balance. While most moms experience some form of weepiness and sadness in the week or two following childbirth, up to 15% of moms experience postpartum depression. Baby blues is a very mild form of postpartum depression. It is a general sadness for a few days or weeks after the birth of your child. This usually goes away on its own and you are back to feeling normal again. It…
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4 key reasons why it matters to put your spouse before your children
There is a natural order in marriage. It begins with two people falling in love, believing that they are the most important person in the world to each other. As children come along they need to be cherished and loved but never more than your spouse. Then when they’re grown and gone, it’s back to just two people again. When these two remain in love, it provides a stability and a legacy for the children, no matter their age. The four key reasons Your children need to see how marriage works If you push your spouse down on your list of priorities, your children will believe that marriage isn’t all…
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Male Fertility Drops 20% Starting at This Surprisingly Young Age
Everyone knows about a woman’s biological clock. It stops ticking at menopause, and along the way, it can make conceiving increasingly difficult (these are the factors that affect fertility). But when it comes to fertility, men have a biological clock too—and their age is especially important in couples where the woman is older than age 30. Those are the findings from a group of researchers led by Laura Dodge, ScD, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, in a study presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. According to a statement by Dr. Dodge in the…
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11 Essentials To Make Flying With Young Kids A Snap
Yes, flying with children can be a challenge. But, no, it’s not always the gigantic stop-and-really-think-before-you-go-through-with-this event many parents like to make it out to be. Do a frantic terminal, rogue luggage carts, judgemental passengers and the thousand other possible hiccups make the daily parenting battles a bit more strenuous? Sure. But if you’re prepared, it’ll all be fine. The key to successfully flying with kids boils down to three things: getting the airport early, planning ahead, and packing the right gear. (Also, extra snacks.) No, we can’t drive you to the airport or make sure you built in enough time to go to the bathroom before boarding. What we can…
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How A Little Pampering Now & Then Can Help Developing Your Child’s Morale
Have you ever observed a baby monkey tightly clutched to its mother’s chest while they are both crossing the higher branch of a tall and widened tree? The firm belief in its mother’s strength makes him fearlessly cling to her. The bond between the human child and the parents is entirely the same. Parents are the firm backbone of their children supporting them in all the difficulties and travesties of their life. A little pampering and timely encouragement can work wonders for your kids. Let’s ponder on the following benefits that a shower of a little pampering can do to help to develop your child’s morale: Can Help Enhance Their…
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Benefits Of Having Understanding Parents
Parents! What not they are to their children? One can say they are like the beam of the torch that guides through the dark or the joker of the circus that makes you laugh or rejoice in somberness. They mean the whole world to their children. Even if the child has grown bigger or stands at the niche of his or her career, he/she will remain to be that fuzzy or tangled sapling for the parents. No matter whatever huge projects they crack or felicitations they acquire, parents will even caress their cheeks or tickle them. The overall and authentic growth of a child or children can be guaranteed if…
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The Effects of Having Working Parents on Kids
In this ever changing era of globalization, the needs of the people are crossing the sky limits. For fulfilling the combined as well as individual requirements and dreams of success, people are stepping out of their houses for their daily bread. Parents equipped with the high qualifications and with an aspiration of designing beautiful & affordable lives for their children tend towards working. When both of the parents are exiting the house in the early morning and entering late in the evening, it takes a severe toll on the relationship with their children. The emotional bond and amazing chemistry which is the basis of a healthy relationship get affected. Let’s…
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This Calculator Tells You EXACTLY How Much Sleep You’ve Lost Since You Had Kids
It takes a village to raise a child—an incredibly sleep-deprived village, that is. And thanks to the Lost Sleep Calculator, parents can know precisely how many hours of zzz’s have been lost, thanks to their little bundles of joy! Hillary’s, a British interior design company, has created an intuitive tool which is as simple to use as assembling a crib— actually, scratch that, that’s a horrible analogy. It’s really easy to use. When you pull up the site, you are greeted by a sickle moon spooning a star and prompted to enter the age of each of your children in years and months, up to ten total. Then you hit the…
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Different Styles of Parenting And Their Influences On Children
Parenting is an art that is mastered over time with utter patience. It should have the forbearance and skill to evolve and alter according to the changing times. Styling or embroidering requires unique and firm patterns and most probably qualifying layouts. Similar is the case in laying the foundations of parenting. Parenting is a substantial responsibility that needs to be undertaken with utmost care and benevolence. Yes, it is true that it cannot be learned quickly or in the first attempt. But, positive initiatives can be undertaken to tackle the popping constraints throughout the journey. Let’s throw some light on the following parenting styles and their corresponding influences on children:…
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9 People Share The ABSOLUTE Worst Parenting Advice They’ve Ever Been Given
Whether you just got married, you’re trying to get pregnant, you’re expecting or you already have five kids, you’ve probably been the recipient of some pretty crazy parenting advice. You might think you’ve heard it all, between mother-in-laws and strangers on the street telling you all about the best way to breastfeed, but we’re pretty confident you haven’t heard anything like this. Here are nine REAL pieces of horrible parenting advice people have been given: 1. Don’t let them get ahead “Read your child a thousand books before letting them read one themselves. If they learn to read before they’re in school, they’ll just be bored and disruptive when they…
