4. Start with small (and plastic) tampons. Plastic tampon applicators are the easiest to use. Be sure to buy small tampons geared towards tweens and teens. 5. Teach safe tampon use. Fortunately,toxic shock syndromeis rare these days, but it’s still important to teach girls to use tampons...
Finding one’s self is a lifelong process, and your job as a parent is to teach your child how to behave appropriately and to be respectful toward others as they grow up. If your child has been disrespectful most of their life and it’s not just something that came on primar...
How to Get Along with Children. A More excellent way for Parents, Teachers, Youth Counselors, and all who work with Young People., By Frank Howard Richardson. M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A...
If you’ve been making excuses for your child’s behavior, you need to be straightforward in addressing the problem. The “Alternative Response” method in The Total Transformation Program is a helpful guideline to this kind of conversation. Sit down with your child ...
You must follow through with the threat so they know you mean business. When you show them at the beginning of the year that your objective is to teach them and not babysit them, they get the message quickly. Students love to test teachers. Not because they are "bad" but because they ...
Teach Her What’s Normal – and What’s Not Your daughter might have heard in health class that a typical cycle is 28 days. But she should expect her first three periods to be pretty irregular before falling into a vague pattern.
Scott Donnell:Yeah, we were doing the Children’s Business Fair, which we’ve been doing it for fun for like 10 years. And now there’s 2,000 of these fairs all over the world. And we were helping kids, teach them profit, cost of goods, how to pitch. Kids are bringing soap and...
What We Discuss with Jonathan Haidt: Social media and smartphones have drastically altered childhood since the early 2010s, leading to increased rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among teens, especially girls. Virtual interactions on social media are disembodied, shallow, and can...
All one has to do is make a child feel courageous. We ensure the happiness of the world when we do so. So, let’s make superheroes of children, and heed the words of Patch Adams: “The reason adults should look as though they are having fun is to give kids a reason to want to...
leading to worse curves once the treatment ends. Bracing is often recommended for teens with severe curvatures or curves over 50 degrees. If non-invasive treatments do not work, surgery might be an option. Many people who have surgery for severe spine curves may deal with serious disabilities ...