Parenting Blog October Archive

Terrible Parenting

10/28/08 14:24

You think your friend or your neighbor is already a bad parent? Well listen to these tales and you will really find out what a terrible parent is. Well, sort of.

Link: globeandmail.com: Thrilling tales of truly terrible parenting

Hardships of Modern Parenting

Parenting is not something to be taken lightly and requires patience, dedication and most of all love for the children. Who would better know about parenting than grand parents. Their influence will benefit and guide parents to do well in parenting but whether to stick to the old style or modern style of parenting is still uncertain. Issues such as smacking is still not welcome to most families as a way of discipling one's child. See more of this issue and parenting survey here:

Link: Mouthpiece: Modern parenting picture blurred by different experiences - Scotsman.com News

New Parenting Style

In the past, parents are the ones that give orders to home and usually mothers just repeats the fathers rule but now there is a trend in western countries which parent are changing the dynamics of parenting. Parents tends to be as friends to their sons and daughters and don't even mind to have a drink or two with them or engage in same activity like sports together. In this way they are building bridges with their children and they can talk about almost everything under the sun.`

Link: Changing dynamics of parenting!-Parenting-Relationships-Lifestyle-The Times of India

Kids Deserve Information

Children may be oblivous to the details of the economic crisis, but with the big news reaching TV sets every day, they will eventually get an idea of what is happening. What is bad about this is that they may not fully understand what's going on. They may just know that something bad is out there.

You should not deprive your kids information. Tell them what they should know about the country and the future of your family.

Link: Sunday Q&A: Don't shield kids from economic strife | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

A Mother's Perspective: Parenting Blog At Its Best

Truly the world wide web has grown into a cyber-society where everyone can interact, and blogs are a testimony of that. Blogs had increased exponentially during the past few years tackling many fields and aspects of life. Parenting blog is a reliable and useful blogs for online readers and first time mothers for they are able to learn basic parenting and perspectives from actual mothers. The blog provided at the permalink here will help you further understand the wonders of parenting:

Link: BECAUSE I SAID SO

Rule in the New Age

You might have witnessed evidences that there has been a power shift from the grown ups to the children.

It is commonly called "Kindergarchy", which is a rule or domination by children. It is also the belief that the children's need and preferences take precedence over their parents or other adults as defined by WordSpy.

Anna Lefler said the the two major task of parenting, keep your children safe and prepare them to function socially when they're out of the parental care. If we tolerate the rule of these youngsters they will not turn into adults who are well-adjusted, resilient which others would want to be with.

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People go to Nebraska to leave their teenagers

When laws are too vague, they get abused. That is what we discover after reports of massive child-leaving in Nebraska got people crossing borders just to leave their TEENAGERS in the hospitals.

The Nebraskan safe haven law used the term "child" instead of an actual age limit, making it open to interpretation. Thus ending up with 17-year-old being left under the custody of the hospital.

Link: Nebraska law lets parents abandon teens - CNN.com