You will need to tailor your topics to your child’s age, personality, level of internet use, preferred online activities, and any other factors that you think would be relevant. Children are individuals, and you know yours best. But regardless of your approach and what is most relevant, th...
Children are seeing, sharing, and becoming “educated” by sexually explicit things they’re seeing online, causing a whole new issue to tackle. And it all starts with the parents. Why is it Important to Talk to Your Children About Porn? Firstly, it’s normal for young people to want to...
Parents have a profound impact on a child’s decision to try alcohol or other drugs, but relationships between parents and their children are often delicate. You have to be involved in their lives, but avoid being a helicopter parent who is smothering or overprotective. Eventually, teens have ...
Instead, he says, parents need to talk to children about what they can see online, and take an active role in their online habits. Censoring kids from the real world does more than leave these kids unprepared for the barrage they will face when their parental protection is relinquishe...
else. When children talk with someone online, they can't see the person. 49. The bad person may ask children for their important information. That is very dangerous. Also.children get dependent () on the Internet 50. It's easy to find an answer to their question, but it makes them la...
So, when approaching a child, tween, orteenabout this, it is crucial to do so in an open, non-judgmental way, and in a way that does not heightenshame. Initiating this conversation can be tricky and it's important for children to not feel "caught" doing something "bad," so they don...
As a result, children who have their pain validated by the adults in their lives may be more likely to seek healthcare when they need it, which could prevent chronic conditions from developing. “By validating children’s experiences of pain,” argues Dr. Wallwork, “they are...
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Observations reported from studies on how adults talk to children are discussed as well as a review of some studies both cross-sectional and longitudinal on maternal speech to children which reveal meaningful statements about the relationship of maternal speech and the various states of the child's...
You may think your child is too young to talk about money. However, kids pick up cues about money—and what it can buy—from the world around them. Young children are already influenced by their external environment, from seeing ads on TV and online to hearing peers talk about vacations a...