Make each day count with your kids. Every action you take can contribute to your child’s mental health.
Parenting Trait
What’s interesting about nature and nurture in child development is that they are both significantly impacted by the way God made us.
Parenting That Encourages Normal Social and Behavioral Development Through Different Ages and Stages
As our children grow through different stages of their life, there are many things we can do as parents to encourage positive social and behavioral development.
Raising your child with special needs well is a marathon, not a sprint. Teaching social and behavioral skills will take time and energy.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis
It is possible to teach our children how to show empathy and altruism, even in today’s world. We want our children to both feel compassion and have the courage and willingness to step in and help others. If we are intentional as parents in demonstrating empathy and altruism, our children will notice and will learn …
We saw him fall in and start to go underwater. Benjamin did not know how to swim. Suddenly, every parent’s worst nightmare was playing out in front of me.
Knowing how your son or daughter best receives your love and demonstrates it to others will help him or her be secure in the knowledge that he or she is precious in your eyes.
Your child’s life may not be going the way they want it to. They may have even gone through something horrible and tragic. Let them know God is the Author of great comebacks. He has an awesome one specially designed for them!
Each mom’s journey through the stages of motherhood will look slightly different. Mothers, overall, tend to handle certain things in each stage of their child’s life in certain ways. Those tendencies can be helpful as we journey through each stage of our child’s life