Ideas for Effective Parenting
What to Do When Your Child Can't Remember What He/She Reads
Does the following scenario sound familiar?
Your child seems like he/she's doing fine with reading.
Give him/her a textbook at any level and he/she can read the words on the page with what sounds like absolute fluency. He/She follows the marks of punctuation, and reads with enunciation, enthusiasm, even expression. He/She can read surprisingly difficult words—anything you put in front of him/her.
But ask him/her a question about what he/she read, and he/she has no idea. He/She cannot remember what he/she just read.
- AMY MASCOTT -
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Memory Trick to Learn & Remember Anything
In this article, Jelani explains why memorizing song lyrics is easier than other things and how we can use this knowledge to our advantage for the improvement of our memory skills without training.
- Jelani Clay -
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15 Memory Exercises for Forgetful Kids
Weak working memory impairs a child’s ability to follow multi-step directions, tap into old information, or quickly recall lessons. These 15 exercises and strategies can help.
- Matthew Cruger, Ph.D. -
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Second Child Syndrome – Everything You Want to Know
Do you notice that your attitude towards your second is very different from the one you had for your first? Do you think it goes beyond you being a more confident and experienced parent? And more importantly, do you think that your second child’s personality is being shaped by your parenting style? If you answered yes for any of the questions above, it is time to read up about the second child syndrome.
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Birth Order Traits: Your Guide to Sibling Personality Differences
Being the first, middle, youngest, or only child probably influences your child's behavior. Here’s what parents need to know about birth order personality traits for oldest, middle, youngest, and only children.
- Jocelyn Voo -
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How Your Child’s Birth Order Affects Your Parenting Style
As it turns out, birth order doesn’t just affect their personality, but it affects a person’s academic performance, career choices, and relationships, too. Of course, while birth order is an important influencer, it’s not the only one – culture, family dynamics, and gender can all impact a child’s developmental growth, as well.
- Anita Yokota -
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How to be an Effective Working Parent
We live in an age where many of us are working parents. Our challenge is to juggle our family responsibilities with our highly demanding jobs at the office. Many parents share of their stress and frustration at not being able to spend enough time with their children.
Here are some practical tips on how we can maximize the time to have with our children as working parents.
- Dr Goh Chee Leong -
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20 Ways to Spend Quality Time With Kids
One of the love languages discussed in the Love Languages Books is Quality Time. Let’s talk about ways you can speak that love language to a child.
Some of these might be perfect for you, while others may not be a good fit. Read through and see which ones you can make work!
- LLA MEDIA LLC -
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5 Steps to a Positive Morning Routine for Kids
A good day starts with a good beginning, but once the school year begins, rushed and frantic mornings are often the norm.
Out of necessity, most of us are focused on meeting our child’s physical needs in the morning; making sure they eat a good breakfast, finds that library book and even get their shoes on are no small tasks!
But what if we can prepare our kids for the day mentally and emotionally, too?
- Rebecca Louick -
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12 Tips to Build a Stronger Sibling Bond
If your children fight six times a day, how can you help them create 36 positive interactions? Remember that a smile counts as a positive; these don’t all have to be major interactions to have a beneficial effect.
- Jessica Schrader -
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Games That Older and Younger Siblings Can Play Together
Dr. Fran Walfish, Beverly Hills child-and-family psychotherapist and author of The Self-Aware Parent, says a certain amount of bickering, rivalry and fighting is natural between brothers and sisters. So how can Mom and Dad encourage kids to stop the squabbling? Parental attention and sibling playtime make for a good start.
- Elaina Verhoff -
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10 Keys to 10As: Tips on How to Excel in Examinations
Specially organized for students about to take their IGCSE and SPM examinations, this online workshop will give you 10 quick tips on how you can achieve peak exam performance, including study skills, exam taking skills, managing stress and pressure and ensuring peak physical and mental fitness.
- R.E.A.L Education Group -
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Supporting Children Through Exams
One of the hardest things to do as a parent is to let go.
At some point, your child will have to go into an exam room, and sit and do an exam for themselves. So what can you do to help them to prepare for this moment? This page provides some ideas.
- SkillsYouNeed.com -
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Help Your Child Beat Exam Stress
Tests and exams can be a challenging part of school life for children and young people and their parents or careers. But there are ways to ease the stress.
- NHS -
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Exam Stress: Tips on How to Help Your Child Keep Calm During Exam Time
Exams can be a hugely stressful time for our kids, but you can help them cope with the below tips.
- Jenni McKnight -
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Preparing Your Child to Thrive in This New World
Studies have shown that 90% of school lessons have no real-world application.
Watch a recent live webinar featuring presenter and activist, Daphne Iking and Dr Goh Chee Leong, CEO of REAL Schools and past President of the ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies (ARUPS) as they share their insights on ‘Preparing Your Child to Thrive in this New World’.
- R.E.A.L Education Group -
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9 Activities to Help Children Understand Careers
In daily life, you will find many opportunities to help your young child or teenager prepare for a great future.
We've identified nine parent-child activities for teenagers, primary school students and preschoolers.
- Education Services Australia Ltd. -
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How Parents Can Deal With the Stress of Virtual Education
If you're feeling frustrated and not sure how much more you can manage the stress of virtual education, here are seven ways to hang on to your sanity while your child does school online.
- Sarah Garone, NDTR -
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Spending Quality Time With Our Children
The following are some practical tips on how we can maximize the time with have with our children as working parents.
- Dr. Goh Chee Leong -
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How Parental Control Apps Improve Family Communication
Parental controls are, fundamentally, tools. Just like the wrench doesn’t hop up and turn the nut for you, parental controls aren’t designed for you to just lock off devices at your convenience. They’re designed to help you create and reinforce boundaries.
- Screen Time Labs Ltd ® -
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TikTok Family Pairing: Curate Your Children’s Content and More
With TikTok being all the rage especially with teens, we look at a feature that gives parents greater control over how their children interact with the app.
- Amer Owaida -
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Tips and Tools for YouTube Kids
The YouTube Kids app has a set of parental controls for you to customize your kid’s individual experience. Outside of our app, there are resources to help you talk openly with your kid, so you can work with them to make smart decisions online and to develop healthy digital habits.
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New Options to Help Parents Connect Kids With Friends in Messenger Kids
Parental control is at the heart of Messenger Kids. Parents manage who their kid interacts with and can monitor their child’s activity in the app through the Parent Dashboard, where they can also download their child’s information at any time.
- Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety -
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Following Your Kids on Social Media: 15 Tips for Parents
Should you be following your kids on social media? Smart Social consulted with some experts and they all agree– yes, absolutely!
But how can parents keep their kids safe online and encourage good digital behavior without being too intrusive?
- Smart Social -
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8 Reasons Why Parents Should Allow Their Kids to Use Social Media Sites
Kids on social media networks can be a scary scenario for parents, however with proper guidance, the effects of modern gadgets on child development can also be largely beneficial.
- Anna Rodriguez -
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A Complete Guide to Potentially Dangerous Apps All Parents Should Be Aware Of
Charise has compiled the ultimate list of the sites and apps tweens and teens are flocking to in 2019. Plus, she has useful tips for protecting your child from cyberbullying and other online safety hazards.
- Charise Rohm Nulsen -
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What if Your Child Posts Something Online That Doesn’t Meet Your Approval?
What do you do if your son or daughter has posted an image or a comment online that you don’t think is OK?
- ScreenRetriever -
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Preparing Your Child for the Arrival of the New Baby
New babies are a source of great excitement and joy to all in the family. However, they also represent a major change in the family and like any other change, it potentially can be a source of stress and anxiety to your existing children.
So, how can parents help prepare their older child in a way that makes them feel secure and excited about the process?
- Dr. Goh Chee Leong -
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How to Prepare Your Older Children for a New Baby
How should we tell our older children that they are going to have a baby brother or sister? Will they be jealous of the new baby? How can we help them get along?
Knowing what to expect from each age group will make it easier to handle the changes in your family.
- American Academy of Pediatrics -
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How to Prepare Your Child for the New Baby
If you're pregnant and you have another child (or two), here are some tips to reduce sibling rivalry and foster a close sibling bond right from the start.
- Aha! Parenting -
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Best Big Sister and Brother Books of 2020
Having a new baby is a whole new experience for our firstborn, and it may even be a bit scary. If your firstborn is young, one of the best ways of explaining the process to them is through talking and reading.
Big sister and brother books use child-friendly illustrations and stories to better the understanding of what’s coming.
- Shannon Serpette -
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Children at Risk of Lasting Psychological Distress From Coronavirus Lockdown
Almost one in four children living under COVID-19 lockdowns, social restrictions and school closures are dealing with feelings of anxiety, with many at risk of lasting psychological distress, including depression.
- Save The Children -
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Back to Child Care After Lockdown
If you imagine heading back to child care may be harder for your child after months of “just you,” you are probably right.
Here are some tips for managing the preschool transition post-COVID.
- Rebecca Parlakian -
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Managing Children’s Back-To-School Anxiety
Advice for parents on how to help your children manage any fears they have about returning to school after the coronavirus ‘lockdown’.
- the Priory Group -
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Returning to Normal After COVID-19
It’s very normal for children and young people to experience re-entry anxiety following a pandemic. Here are some things that can help.
- Kids Helpline 2020 -
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Supporting a Child Returning to School After Lockdown
If you have decided that you would like to send your child back to school, here are some tips on how you can support your child to transition back to school life.
- YoungMinds -
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After Lockdown: Worries About Returning to School
Here are some thoughts on how to manage a child’s worries and concerns about returning to school after being in lockdown.
- Changing Faces -
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Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health as They Return to School During COVID-19
Here are tips to help your children navigate some of the complicated emotions they may be facing with going back to school.
- UNICEF -
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Returning to School: 8 Tips to Help Your Child After Lockdown
Here are eight things to consider if your child is returning – or preparing to return – to the classroom.
- Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP -
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Helping Your Kids Adjust to Going Back to School After Lockdown
By planning ahead, you can help your child make the adjustment into their school routine and ease them into any changes that it may bring.
- Morneau Shepell Ltd -
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Gameplan for Positive Parenting Your Teen
Positive parenting a teenager? A terrific teen who's responsible, considerate, shows good judgment, at least most of the time?
Yes, it is possible! Here's your game plan, with 12 essential tips.
- Dr. Laura Markham -
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How To Be A Good Parent To A Teenager
Parenting with teens can be challenging. Our job as parents is important to understand. There is a good mix of love, control, discipline, and consulting. But how do you know what to do when?
In this episode of Hero TV, Paul Jenkins provides a simple framework that we can use to become great parents to a teenager.
- Hero TV -
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15 Self-Care Strategies for Parents
The minute you become a parent, your focus turns to take care of your new bundle of joy. And as your child grows from an infant to a toddler and beyond, you might find it’s tough to return your attention to taking care of yourself.
- Verywell Family -
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5 Realistic Ways to Practice Self-Care as a Parent
You’ve got this parenting thing down — but have you forgotten yourself in the process?
- Cleveland Clinic -
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Dad Guide: Take a Break
These tips will help you find ways to take a break from parenting to recharge and be a better parent.
- Dadgoesround -
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10 Signs You Need A Break From Motherhood
When you become a mother, you love your children so much and experience special days. But sometimes, you need a break from your tiring routine.
- JESSICA PAPP -
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Five Reasons Why It’s Okay to Take Break From Parenting
Parents deserve a break, and you shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to take a break either.
- NewsLifeMedia -
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Tips for Peaceful Parenting
This YouTube channel talks about why is peaceful parenting so hard and shares various tips and stories on handling peaceful parenting.
- The Parenting Junkie -
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What Is Parenting and How Can We Conduct It?
This article provides what can we do to achieve the major goals of parenting.
- American Psychological Association -
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Importance of Good Parenting in Child Development
Dr. Rosetta Williams, an accomplished educationist, shares about the importance of parenting in child development.
Good parenting is more important than a good school to the academic success of a child.
- Dr.Rosetta Williams | Medium -
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9 Steps to More Effective Parenting
Raising kids is one of the toughest and most fulfilling jobs in the world — and the one for which you might feel the least prepared.
- KidsHealth® -
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10 Good Parenting Tips
Here are 10 tips on learning effective parenting skills.
Many of them are not quick nor easy. And probably no one can do all of them all of the time. But if you can keep working on them, even though you may only do part of these some of the time, you will still be moving in the right direction.
- Parenting For Brain -
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The Foundation for Effective Parenting
Parenting can be a challenge, particularly around issues related to screen time. The foundation for our influence as parents is through the relationship with our kids.
- Mike Brooks, Ph.D. | Psychology Today -
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Parenting in the Modern World
Entrepreneur Kyle Seaman spent more than a year trying to reverse engineer parenting and shares his fascinating conclusions.
- Kyle Seaman | TEDxMontreal -
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20 Minutes to Effective Parenting Communication Skills
This video is based on ten real case studies that parents run into everyday.
From trying to stay on time to teaching your child to share or keeping them quiet while on the phone, this video has all the answers.
- Don Murray -
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How to Deal With Parental Anxiety
Are you always worried about your family and kids? Worrying is normal for parents, but too much of it can also be a bad thing 😉
- MumCenter Malaysia -
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What Is Your Parenting Style?
How would you describe your approach to parenting?
Fill out this questionnaire and find out for yourself.
- Alexius Cheang, Behavioural Psychologist -
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4 Tips to Build a Parenting Support Network
Having a network of support is crucial to help you juggle the various roles you play: mother, career-woman, daughter, wife, etc.
Here are some ways mothers can start building their support system.
- Positive Parenting -
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5 Parenting Rules That Don’t Work: How to Separate Fact from Fiction
Even before you become a parent, you start forming ideas about how you’ll raise your child. You get advice about it from all sides—your own parents and family, your friends, and books by so-called experts tell you “the rules” of good parenting.
But most people soon find out that some of these techniques are simply fads—and many of them don’t work at all. Read on to see what James Lehman thinks are the top five most ineffective parenting concepts out there.
- Empowering Parents -
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12 Skills That Good Parents Have (Backed by Science)
Do you want to have good parenting skills? Of course you do!
Check out these 12 good parenting skills that are curated by Daniel Wong.
- Daniel Wong -
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