Healthy Treats for Halloween and Trick or Treat Parties

Fun, Healthy Trick or Treat and Halloween Party Recipes
It's a Halloween tradition for kids to stuff themselves with trick or treat candy. Before your goblins get their sugar overload, and become real demons, feed them some nutritional treats. Here are fun, healthy trick or treat and Halloween party recipes.
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How to Get Kids to Do Their Homework

How to Get Kids to Do Their Homework
I believe that 95% of homework is unnecessary. However, I also realize that homework is a fact of life. Many students drop out of school simply because there is too much homework. Here are solutions for parents and students to manage homework.
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Parenting Pitfalls: Over Indulgence and Lack of Discipline

Parenting Pitfalls: Over Indulged, Under Disciplined Children
You have seen them out in public. Those parents and children who think the rules do not apply to them. Children who are allowed to behave as they wish with no discipline; parents who over indulge and act like  everyone finds junior's antics as cute as they do.
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Helping Your Children Cope with Mean Kids

How to Help Your Children Deal with Selfish Mean Kids
Every children's play group or social club has them. That one family that lets their children run wild. They behave as if their children can do no wrong. These children are hurtful. They don't play nice or fair. And mom is oblivious to them.
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Over Protective Parent or Over Controlling Bully?

Over Protective Parent or Over Controlling Bully?
You've seen these families before. Mom and dad ordering their children around, scolding, nagging and keeping their children very much under their thumb. All too often parents confuse over controlling bullying with over protective parenting.
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Protective Parent, Over Protective or Power Struggle

Protective Parent or Partner Power Struggles
Family dynamics are complicated to say the least. Parents have relationships with each other as lovers, as partners and as caregivers for their children. It's vital that parents keep personal power struggles out of their parenting decisions. Co-parents and ex spouses need to be very careful with this.
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Why Children Throw Temper Tantrums in Public

Why Children Act Out and Throw Temper Tantrums in Public
You've seen them in the store and about. Out of control kids; screaming, temper tantrums, anger. You wish that the parent would do something. Then you see parent in action and understand. Children act out for a reason. Being 'a brat' is not a reason. Kids are learning self discipline and there are things you can do to help.
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Discipline and Kids: Respond vs React

Relationships and Communication: Proactive Response Vs Reactionary Behavior
In psychology, we use the terms 'reactive' and 'proactive' to define different types of response to stimulus. This article defines reactive vs. proactive behavior.  It also explores the affect that reactionary behavior vs. proactive response. The key is to learn self discipline and self care.
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Free Printable Health, Human Body Lessons Plans

Free Printable Health and Hygiene Activities GHealth is one of the most important subjects we can teach children. We need to start young educating them on nutrition, hygiene, human body, mental health concepts. Here are free printable coloring pages, lesson plans, games and activities to explore. Read More