Highly Effective Parenting

Children’s Intuition

A Special Key to Success in Life

A child’s intuition, or sixth sense, may be more important in the life of a child than many people realize. Nurturing children’s intuition and keeping it alive helps them maintain a clear connection to their inner compass.

Growing Up Green

Lessons to Help Lighten Future Footprints

Guiding children in Earth-friendly principles is a rewarding goal. Fortunately, there are many ways to make green living a feel-good, easy and fun habit.

Skinship: Better Bonding with Baby

Numerous studies have proven that touch for babies is absolutely essential—to bonding, to growth and development, and to present and future emotional well-being.

Making Allowances

Learning to Manage Money at a Young Age

Should kids have allowances? Experts say yes—instituting a plan that works best for each child is a sound way to start teaching the value of money, budgeting and saving.

Kinder Care

Parents Improve Kids’ Media Habits

Data confirms a promising trend toward more protective, involved parenting than just 10 years ago, which means more restriction on kids’ television viewing.

Smokeless Home

Adults’ Example Influences Youth Tobacco Use

Research conducted in Sweden has determined that its country’s teenagers are more positive today towards their parents’ attempts to discourage them from smoking than in the past.

Video Games Boost Daddy-Daughter Bonds

This Type of Play can Connect Families

Girls who co-played with a parent showed stronger signs of mental health and felt more connected to their families.

Parenting Tip

Cultivating Sound Slumber

A study recently asked parents about their children's sleep, as well as examined the parents behavior at the children's bedtime.