Highlights
What to Know About Kids and Pretend Guns
My daughter recently told me the one rule for playing with pretend guns at her preschool: “You can shoot someone. But you have to ask them if it’s okay first. And they have to say yes.” And that was that. She went on eating her waffles. I had more questions. [...]
How To Help Your Child From Getting Bullied
Believe you have an excellent relationship with your youngster? Positive your elementary or middle school child is communicating when things are really bothering him or her? Convinced you can tell if they are being bullied? Think again! An AOL search of “bullying in elementary and middle schools” brought up over [...]
Angry Birds Have Landed In Qatar
The World’s First Ever Angry Birds World™ to Open Soon The neighbourhoods of Doha were greeted with the exuberant chirps of birds from a faraway land. The beloved flock of Angry Birds have landed in the city, setting in motion the development of the world’s first ANGRY BIRDS WORLD™. The [...]
Why Gray is My Favorite Color
The color “gray” is commonly defined as a color between black and white having a neutral hue. A recent mediation I did illustrates the similarity between this color and success in mediation. Not long ago, a young couple came to me for help in creating a parenting plan for their [...]
Have Your Child Enter Google’s ‘Doodle 4 Google’ Contest
Think your kid’s art deserves to be showcased beyond your refrigerator door? It’s the 10th anniversary of the Doodle 4 Google contest, and K-12 students have three weeks left to submit their renditions of the Google logo. The winner will score a $30,000 scholarship, a $50,000 technology package for their school and the [...]
Help Your Child Become More Independent
My mother loves to tell a story about how I would make my own sandwiches when I was three years old. Three! I used to think it was a sad story, a commentary on her non-parenting skills, but now that I’m a mom myself, I can see the silver lining: [...]
