How are your parenting principles performing in regards to your children's food, health, and nutrition report card? Many parents I see shopping and talking about food and meals seem to be stressing and struggling when it comes to healthy food options. With all the conflicting information and time challenges influencing our decisions, it seems extremely [...]
What are your guiding parenting principles for food, health, and nutrition to ensure happy and healthy children? By the way, parents shop and talk it appears a lot of parents are slipping, stressing, and struggling as parents and knowing what to do and say to their children regarding a family friendly food foundation for happiness [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 12 – Teen Parenting Challenges and today we finish the series with Part 13 – Independent Adult Children Parenting Challenges. Parenting Adult Children is an important phase to master and understand. Parents who are able to help their adult children through transitions are [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 11 – Preteen Parenting Challenges and today we continue the series with Part 12 – Teen Parenting Challenges. Parenting teens will require a mastery of your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual resourcefulness in order to deal with the spirited and testing teen years. [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 10 - Youth Parenting Challenges and today we continue the series with Part 11 – Preteen Parenting Challenges. Parenting preteens requires a combination of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual beliefs and practices to deal with the “tweens”. Parents who navigate the “tween” years [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 8 - Toddler Challenges and today we continue the series with Part 9 – Preschool Parenting Challenges. Parenting preschoolers involves some creative parenting to deal with the rapid advancement in development and learning. Parents can benefit from help during this bridge period before [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 5 - Pregnancy and today we continue the series with Part 6 - Newborn Parenting Challenges. Parenting demands attention to details and organizational skills especially during the newborn and infant transition. Personal experience and observing other parents indicates many parenting issues result from [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 4 - Pre Parent Planning and today we continue the series with Part 5 - Pregnancy Challenges Affects Parenting Challenges. During the pregnancy may be one of the most important times for soon to be parents to focus on the simple things and [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 3 - Newly Married/Partnered and today we continue the series with Part 4 - Pre Parent Planning. Parenting is a major responsibility and many future parenting problems can be avoided with prior proper pre- parenting planning. My personal experience and observations suggests many [...]
The previous Great NEWS post shared Parenting Principles for Preventing Problems Part 2 (Premarital Issues) and today we continue the series with Part 3 (Newly Married/Partnered). When you think about parenting do you wonder which comes first: Parenting problems or children problems? My belief and experience suggests most parenting issues are unresolved childhood issues of [...]
