At the age of 6 months an infant seeks to know the surrounding world. There comes time, when communication and games with a child move to a new level. In addition to usual concerns about weight, health and nutrition, parents begin facing problems ensuring a child’s safety. (more…)

Researchers note that computer games are becoming less popular. Young readers increasingly enjoy viewing pictures and reading old books with their parents.

Why is this happening? Most likely, children just do not have enough communication with their working parents. In fact, during a joint reading of old fairy tales, they can share (more…)

No matter how diligent your child care may be, mom always knows best, and gives advice. Believe me, she does this not to humiliate you, but because she is trying to help. Try to hear her. (more…)

Toy for a child is an instrument for discovering the world and at the same time, a substantial part of the world itself, and game - the way to its knowledge. Psychologists call thinking of a very small child visually-effective. In other words, manipulating with accessible objects (toys), a baby learns the world, thinks, develops. And things for these manipulations promote his thinking. Imagine what kind of responsibility you have when (more…)

Doctors repeatedly argued in favor of breast-feeding. At this time, scientists found another feature of breast milk, useful for a newborn.

Doctors from Southampton (UK) had a 10-year study involving nearly 1,500 young mothers and their children and found that breast milk reduces the risk of various diseases (more…)

“Mum, do not go to work!” Do you often hear such words from a child? And after all these words can mean not just whims, but conceal in themselves real deficiency of heat and dialogue with parents. How to resist to it ?

Today many parents feel necessity to give more and more attention to work and career … (more…)

Allergy, probably, is the most widespread children’s illness. Statistics shows, every fifth child in the world suffers from this problem now. Allergy is a collective term, which is used for designation of several diseases connected with hypersensibility of organism to one or several substances.

Arriving in an organism, allergens promote production of antibodies by immune system. (more…)

The happiness you experience in life all comes down to the attitude you carry. We all know someone who is “pessimistic”. What is their life like? How do they view things that happen to them? Generally I would say their life is NOT happy. You are teaching your children how to live their own lives just by living your own! So make it a happy one!

Why not put the power to be happy back into your own hands by becoming personally (more…)

How you discipline your child will depend on age, stage of development, personality and many other factors, but there are some basic ideas to help guide you.

It takes an enormous amount of patience and perseverance on the parents part to get the child disciplined. Children by nature are free spirits and would want to have all sorts of freedom. You as a parent also do not want to restrict them into binding rules. (more…)

Do you see your children fighting all the time? Your role naturally as their parent will be to teach them self-control and give them wisdom: it isn’t easy, but it can be accomplished. Kids can fight for the silliest reasons that seem utterly illogical–even humorous to adults–but it can become a friendship maker or breaker in the minds of young children. (more…)