Parenting (10)

Smoresup- Parenting

The best parenting website for modern-day parents is Smoresup. S’moresUp bridges the gap between non-digital native parents and digital-native kids in a fun, simple, and engaging fashion. 

It uses behavioral and predictive analysis to help family members optimize their household and teach kids critical life skills such as financial management, self-discipline, healthy habits, and online safety.

Parenting is personal. No two kids are the same, no two situations are the same, no two parenting needs

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Modern-Day Parenting Steps

1. Boosting Your Child's Self-Esteem

 

Kids start developing their sense of self as babies when they see themselves through their parents' eyes. Your tone of voice, your body language, and your every expression are absorbed by your kids. Your words and actions as parenting affect their developing self-esteem more than anything else.

Praising accomplishments, however small, will make them feel proud; letting kids do things independently will make them feel capable and strong. By contrast, belittling

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The year 2012 was a biggie for royal baby news. First Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, announce that they’re expecting their first child (due in July), then in December the Queen of Reality TV, Kim Kardashian, reveals she is also pregnant.

While it was only a matter of time before the future King and Queen of England started procreating, the news that Kimmy and her superstar boyfriend, Kanye West, were expecting the patter of tiny feet was somewhat more su

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The Princess and the Pea

612YHCSZ8NL._SS500_.jpgHow could I have understood, before giving birth to a Princess, the humor of The Princess and the Pea?

It can get to you, if you lose your sense of humor about it. Some little girls are simply born with an acute sensitivity to anything -- ANYTHING -- that rubs them the wrong way.

I suppose I was this way myself as a girl; perhaps that is why I find myself designing little girls' clothing.

My little princess had issues with jeans. She simply would not wear them. Denim was just not soft enough to be
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"I Want to Do it Myself!!"

Have you ever heard this from your toddler or preschool-aged girl? Especially in the area of apparel, it seems they have an independent streak.

This has several interesting results. Firstly, in dressing themselves they reach new and interesting heights of clash. Secondly, it seems that more than 50% of their clothing is on backwards at any given time. Finally, they gravitate towards wearing certain items as often as possible, while leaving others (the ones we like best) lying forlornly in the dra
Read more…

Smoresup- Parenting

The best parenting website for modern-day parents is Smoresup. S’moresUp bridges the gap between non-digital native parents and digital-native kids in a fun, simple, and engaging fashion. 

It uses behavioral and predictive analysis to help family members optimize their household and teach kids critical life skills such as financial management, self-discipline, healthy habits, and online safety.

Parenting is personal. No two kids are the same, no two situations are the same, no two parenting needs

Read more…

Modern-Day Parenting Steps

1. Boosting Your Child's Self-Esteem

 

Kids start developing their sense of self as babies when they see themselves through their parents' eyes. Your tone of voice, your body language, and your every expression are absorbed by your kids. Your words and actions as parenting affect their developing self-esteem more than anything else.

Praising accomplishments, however small, will make them feel proud; letting kids do things independently will make them feel capable and strong. By contrast, belittling

Read more…

8843148054?profile=original

Image by bdhq

The year 2012 was a biggie for royal baby news. First Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, announce that they’re expecting their first child (due in July), then in December the Queen of Reality TV, Kim Kardashian, reveals she is also pregnant.

While it was only a matter of time before the future King and Queen of England started procreating, the news that Kimmy and her superstar boyfriend, Kanye West, were expecting the patter of tiny feet was somewhat more su

Read more…

The Princess and the Pea

612YHCSZ8NL._SS500_.jpgHow could I have understood, before giving birth to a Princess, the humor of The Princess and the Pea?

It can get to you, if you lose your sense of humor about it. Some little girls are simply born with an acute sensitivity to anything -- ANYTHING -- that rubs them the wrong way.

I suppose I was this way myself as a girl; perhaps that is why I find myself designing little girls' clothing.

My little princess had issues with jeans. She simply would not wear them. Denim was just not soft enough to be
Read more…

"I Want to Do it Myself!!"

Have you ever heard this from your toddler or preschool-aged girl? Especially in the area of apparel, it seems they have an independent streak.

This has several interesting results. Firstly, in dressing themselves they reach new and interesting heights of clash. Secondly, it seems that more than 50% of their clothing is on backwards at any given time. Finally, they gravitate towards wearing certain items as often as possible, while leaving others (the ones we like best) lying forlornly in the dra
Read more…

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