Parenting Tips for Your Tech Child
Is Your Child Tech-Enabled?
This article focuses on parenting tips for tech-enabled children. Personal computers (PCs) and gaming consoles can be good or bad for your child. As parent, you want to provide your little one with the best in life but keep him from any form of bad influence. Whether in the physical world or in cyberspace; keep tabs on your child's activities. Some parenting tips are provided below on how to properly handle your child as he explores the virtual world.

How To Cope With Being A Parent
The Joys Of Being A Parent!
Let's take a look at How To Cope With Being A Parent Being a Parent and Parenting, is a skill hard learned for some, an easy task for others can be challenging to anybody during some point of your children's lives. Raising a child is actually one of the most challenging tasks there is and additionally includes a 24 hour job. So how can you keep up with your children and ever changing theories about parenting? Here at Being A Parent we will offer helpful advice on ways to improve your own p...

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
A Parenting Classic
"The parenting bible" is how the Boston Globe describes How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. As I read parenting books, and even taught parenting seminars, this book was the one that came up over and over in quotations and recommendations. I wish I had read it sooner because this book is wonderful! The co-authors, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, are parents themselves, excellent yet humble writers, and clearly experts in their field. The book helped me to recognize som...

Parenting with Creative Incentives
Parenting with Poker Chips
When the hubby and I were younger we didn't have a lot of money to delegate for allowances. I bought a set of cheap poker chips and used them to pay my boys. I set up a chore chart and reward list. Obviously some chores were worth more then others. (Example: Take out trash - 1 chip, cut grass - 3 chips). Each son was assigned a color, though they could pay each other with chips as well. They could use their chips to purchase "control of the remote" for blocks of time. 15 min per chip. They c...

Grandparents parenting grandchildren
What if raising a grandchild was the last thing that you expected for your life?
Grandparents parenting grandchildren are big words for a very common lifestyle. There are many grandparents raising grandchildren. This is not new. The only difference between those grandparents who raised grandchildren in the past and those of us today is that it often requires legal assistance and is gets much more attention by the media. In the past, grandparents simply raised the children, often without the legal issues that we face today.