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Some Parenting Tips for Infant Teething

Posted on 26-09-2010 | By: nigel

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Some Parenting Tips for Infant Teething

Parenting tips for infant teething are a great source of information for anyone trying to cope with the difficult period of teeth eruption. There could be long sleepless nights when the child fusses, whines or cries, days when he or she refuses to eat, sobbing and chewing at every object that falls at hand. How can one help the infant better pass over this stress? The solution to such a question will also be the cure for the parents’ exhaustion.

First of all, infant teething starts with the eruption of the lower front teeth, so it is there that you should look for swollen red gums. The event occurs somewhere between six and ten months of age but it is may also happen that the process should start sooner like at three, four or five months. The lower incisors are followed by the upper middle ones, and these are the most difficult stages to go over with, since the rest of the teeth will erupt more slowly, bothering less both infant and parents.

Temperature is among the most alarming infant teething symptoms; if the fever gets higher than 100 degrees you should contact the doctor right away and have the child investigated. Sometimes, teeth eruption can be doubled by a cold or other ailment as the baby’s body is far more sensitive during the period. A health care provider will probably recommend a combined treatment for both teeth eruption and the cold or the infection.

There are all sorts of methods and solutions to soothe a teething infant: give him or her a cool object to chew or bite at. Teething rings cooled in the fridge are most often a great solution as they release the pressure in the gums, while also reducing the swelling and the soreness. Though many parents choose to give cold food to a teething infant, this could be risky from other points of view, though highly useful at calming the teeth eruption symptoms.

Infant teething is complete around the age of three when your child should have all of his or her twenty baby teeth. In case there is any delay in the eruption, you should contact the doctor right away and find out what is the cause for the problem. Regular visits to the dentist are also a good idea: on the one hand the child gets used to being consulted and treated without feeling any fear and on the other hand oral health is ensured.

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When To Potty Train – Parenting Tips

Posted on 25-09-2010 | By: nigel

Category : Parenting Tips

Tags: Parenting, Potty, Tips, Train

When To Potty Train – Parenting Tips

Knowing when to potty train can be tricky.

Two years old or so looks to be a target age for when to potty train a kid. However, the appreciation of the kid that wetting or soiling their diaper is uncomfortable is a better measure of when to show them to use the toilet instead of just picking an age. When a kid can tell you they have wet or dirtied his nappy, it’s pretty much time to begin the method. You can talk to them about going to the lavatory. Depending on how they understand what you are speaking to them about and showing them will let you know if thew are ready or not.

Here’s why it’s so hard to know when to potty train your child.

But it will mean less time that your child will have to put up with the discomfort of wearing wet or dirty or wet nappy. The earlier your youngster learns to use the bathroom, the less diapers you may have to buy or change. I’m really not advocating pushing your child before he’s ready. If you are studying this piece, I suspect you will do what is best for your child.

youngsters learn fast by way of example and occasionally the simplest way to do that is to do some role playing. Here’s a neat role playing session developed by Dr. Wayne Jensen that you can have fun with when you suspect your child is ready to potty train. Grab one of your child’s fave dolls or teddies and put a diaper on it. Call it by whatever name your youngster calls it. For this example we’re going to call the doll Daisy. Now tell your kid that you are going to coach Daisy to go to the potty and that she will not need to wear diapers but will wear big person pants as she can do wees and poos like a giant person.
Give Daisy lots of water. Again, if you do not have a doll that simulates this then just use a syringe. Get pumped up about Daisy doing a pee in the potty and then make a big score about the underpants being dry because Daisy utilised the potty.
Do the motions of cleaning the doll with toilet paper so your youngster knows that should be done too. Then go to the toilet and flush the potty contents all the while congratulating Daisy on what a great job she probably did. Remember to wash Daisy’s hands. Your child can put a star on a chart for Daisy to give congratulations to her on her achievement. Make a genuine song and dance about Dolly being toilet trained, your youngster will adore it. To make the sessions more practical occasionally let Dolly have an accident and get your youngster to touch the wet pants to show how it feels. Your role playing sessions have just re-enforced the required routines and they will feel more relaxed using the potty themselves.

Hope this helps new parents understand when to potty train.

When To Potty Train – Parenting Tips

Alva James is the Family and Parenting Editor at www.iSawNEWS.com

Teenagers & Money: Teach Them The Art Of “Wise-Spending”

Posted on 24-09-2010 | By: nigel

Category : Parenting Tips

Tags: Money, Teach, Teenagers, Them, WiseSpending

Teenagers & Money: Teach Them The Art Of “Wise-Spending”

Teens essentially receive their parent’s participation in their finances and hence it is not very wise to state that they pay no attention to parents. An issue with money is usually delicate especially when it is concerning teens.

The current trend

Part-time summer jobs have helped teenagers to earn quite a lot in the recent years. Although it is true that most often teenagers exhaust all that they earn, it is also not untrue that few of them consider savings. Be it for college education or a bigger purchase, a number of teenagers did manifest some savings

Families impact a lot on the way a teenager blows up money. Teens are exceedingly responsive when it comes to their family lifestyle and source of income. Keeping the family financial status in mind, they apply similar ideology as they venture undertakings on their own.

Consequently, it lands up on parents as an accountability to guide their teenager with money matters.

Being a parent, there are ways you can help your teenage kid to set-aside the well-merited means in forms of savings or investments.

Mend your style
Teenagers tend to copy your routine most often. They would check the way you spend money and maintain the essence. For an instance, if teenagers find their parents setting aside money for some explicit household expense, then it is mostly seen that they do the identical activity when they are autonomous with money.

Assist in opening a Bank account
Instituting a bank account for your teenager under the primary name would instantaneously give the fundamental financial responsibility to him. You can then co ordinate with him or her to explain the way a bank account works, the rewards concerning savings and associated things with the same.

Furthermore, they would always have a sense of triumph when there is enough savings which could go towards their further education or procurement of some tangible asset. You may also suggest them in case of bank benefits existing for any early-age savings account.

Rise up the Spending Graph
Teenagers detest the sound of “budget” as it gives them a sense of confinement to their own possessions. In view of this, it is implied to help your daughter or son by developing a simple spending plan. This would help them key-up and imagine the ways they can spend and also minimize on things which are not of immediate necessity.

You can also have them note down their expenses and gains so that they know where they go with the unwanted spending. This would assist them to distinguish and choose between their immediate needs and luxury “wants” so that they decide on those items they can rule out to have!

The dummy stock market
As a parent you can let them be sensitive of the financial options available. You can offhandedly get them to the business section of the daily newspaper and show them about the stocks of companies. Subsequently, you can encourage them to make dummy investments for their favorite manufacturing companies. Scrutinizing these stocks in concert would let them know about the value added options when investments are spoken about.

Teens, though reluctant to ask, always wish their parents giving them inputs on monetary aspects. The above ways would no doubt get the most of your kid’s richly-deserved means.

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Autism Effects On Teenagers

Posted on 23-09-2010 | By: nigel

Category : Parenting Tips

Tags: Autism, Effects, Teenagers

Autism Effects On Teenagers

Autistic children are not exempt from going through puberty and developing into a teenager.

However the autism effects on teenagers may be different from that of a normally developing child.

Probably the most serious autism effect on teenagers can be the onset of seizures as their body reaches puberty. The onset of these seizures can happen even if your teen never had seizures as a child.

Seizures will affect almost a quarter of autistic children reaching puberty. If you think your autistic teenager is suffering seizures then you should consult you G.P. as soon as possible.

Seizures can range from brief loses of concentration (staring absently into space) to violent shaking.

As your autistic child grows and matures there interests can differ also and sometimes this can be a positive thing. Many parents report changes in behaviors around puberty with their autistic teen.

Some autistic teens will have problems coping with the changes in their bodies and around them. Their growing sexuality, their friends, their environment and what is expected of them from others will change, which can all be very confusing to an autistic teenager.

For most autistic teenagers the onset of puberty is difficult to understand and no matter how verbal the teenager may be when under stress they can become very anxious and even aggressive.

A good point to remember with all autistic individuals is there communication deficits and at times of stress it is not a good idea to talk at the autistic individual, talk less and use visual cues or prompts.

All autistic teenagers will benefit from autism social skills stories as an explanation visually about their changing bodies, routines, school like, friends and situations in general.

Autism effects on teenagers can be quite serious and by implementing autism social stories for teens; the autistic teen can be helped, taught and guided to understand and cope with the onset of puberty, friendships, relationships, personal hygiene issues as well as the normal everyday life changes they will undoubtedly encounter.

Social skills stories are a useful method of teaching things like using deodorant, showering, masturbation and how to deal with aggression.

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Peer Pressure & Your Teenage Daughter

Posted on 22-09-2010 | By: nigel

Category : Parenting Tips

Tags: Daughter, Peer, Pressure, Teenage

Peer Pressure & Your Teenage Daughter

If His Eyes Look like Two Cherries in a Glass of Buttermilk, He Might be a Weedhead

Mom, the potheads that parked at the top of the parking lot when we were in high school are not parking there today. The potheads of today may be parking their cars closer to you than you think.

“The Secrets to Having the Teenage Daughter you Actually Like” with Dr. Cheryl Guy

You may want to look in your own garage. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but it is true. Avoiding the “bad crowd” was much easier when we knew who they were by their looks and reputation. Today, it is not so easy to identify who the drug users are.

Teenagers and peer pressure is much more difficult to steer clear of when they are cheering next to one on the cheerleading squad and dance line. Girls are trading sex for drugs underneath their parent’s noses and they look just like your own daughter. How did we ever get here?

Teenagers need to be taught from a very early age to stand firm in their beliefs and be prepared to stand alone at times. During a group counseling session with three girls, I listened as they expressed great distress over feeling as if they were viewed as outcasts at their school. They had chosen to stick together and resist the peer pressures of alcohol, drugs, and sex. These were three very beautiful girls who were questioning their decision to resist these pressures and temptations because of their lack of a “normal” social life. I tend to talk very straight and direct so I didn’t mince words as I described what society sees as “normal and socially acceptable”. At the end of my description I advised them that the day they openly decided to bypass the act of sex and partying, was the day many guys wrote them off of their black book list. Partying and engaging in pre-marital sex seems to be the direction many unsuspecting teenage girls and boys have chosen. I oftentimes advise my own daughters that all guys have a penis, and the majority of them desire to use their penises as many times as they can as they advance through high school. Mothers of sons, hold on before you heat up the keys sending me emails. I too have a son who happens to be twelve years old. I expect him to have the same feelings other teenage guys have. He will certainly have a desire to use his penis as many times as he can while in high school, but he must be in a constant state of self-control if he wishes to fight the urges that naturally come with raging hormones.

Today’s times requires blunt force discussions about the dangers of teenage drinking, teenage drug abuse, and teenage sex. Allowing yourself to be in situations where your guard is impaired and let down offers up the gamut of possible problems. As a mother and counselor, I will never say “It would never happen to one of my daughters.” It could just as easily happen to mine as yours. I am not naive enough to think that I have perfect children. I actually think I have very normal children who can be as easily influenced as the next. There is never a day that goes by where I am not using something that I learn to equip my family with more protection. That is what all mothers can do. Protect your family by gaining information and teaming up with each member as you fight for their safety. Peer pressure is hard to resist because the media makes it look so pretty. Teenage sex is not pretty though. Sexually transmitted diseases are not pretty. Unwanted pregnancies are not pretty either. Each situation can put much stress on a family.

I have counseled many teens as they are involved in sexual relationships, but one really stuck out. There was a particular fourteen year old girl who was engaging in a sexual relationship with her boyfriend. I told her that the act of sex can have several negative unintended outcomes; outcomes that a fourteen year old would have absolutely no comprehension of. I advised her of the emotional impact the sexual relationship could have on her at such a young age. As a maturing teenager, she was losing her own identity and becoming entwined with her boyfriend. This was taking her parent’s role of protecting her out of their hands. She was allowing her boyfriend to have a connection and bond with her that emotionally there was no way she could be ready for. Her emotional growth and maturity was being stunted and delayed as long as she continued to have this sexual relationship. My concern for her was not necessarily the physical act that was wrong, but the emotional and psychological impact that was going on and she was totally oblivious to its effects on her. Far too often we get so caught up as parents in the discussion of the act of sex being wrong until marriage and we forget to go further with the deeper scars that can form as a result as well.

The peer pressures teens face are still the same today as they were in our day, it is simply so much easier to get caught into the web the spiders spin today as they catch their prey. We now have cell phones, the internet, reality T.V., The Hills episodes, ipods, and much more to serve as constant reminders of the “fun and excitement” that is right at their fingertips.

Teach your daughter to be stronger than the peer pressures that they will certainly face every day of their life.

Dr. Cheryl Guy is author of “The Secrets to Having the Teenage Daughter You Actually Like” & Creator of the Relationship Renewal ProgramsTM. To learn more about her, her programs, services or to receive her FREE award winning “Parenting the Teenage Daughter” newsletter, visit her site at www.theteenagedaughter.com .

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