Tag Archives : Parenting

For the last 15 years Marian Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, and industry-renowned trend spotter has been coming out with her list of top trends for the year. She has released her list for 2011. Salzman creates her annual list by digging deep to look for social patterns, then applying everything to where the future is headed, [...]

Childhood depression can be a result of ADHD and these two conditions are linked closely. However, labeling never seems to help and what children need is affection, time and most importantly space. Allowing them to play in their own space can be extremely therapeutic and psychologists call this “play therapy”. The boy suffered from mild depression [...]

Hyperactivity can be a particularly difficult situation for parents to deal with. It has been noticed in many cases that the children grow up in loving families with almost uneventful childhoods. Let us take the example of this boy “Tim” who was brought to the clinic when he was around 9 years old by his parents. The parents were worried that he [...]

Parenting a stressful thing and figuring out why your baby is crying can be a bit of a challenge for most parents across the planet, especially for those dealing with their very first newborn. While one might say that decoding baby talk and their behavior needs experience, Cry Translator creators Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca would say that all it now [...]

Development may also occur in guided participation, in which adults guide and the children participate. But in western cultures, context independent learning also takes place. In this case, a child himself/herself makes an effort to learn new things. However, this again boils down to ‘western culture’ and hence everything is related to culture. Thus [...]

The ecological systems theory has much strength. However, it also has many shortcomings and weaknesses. It only considers children’s development and not adulthood and old age. Though it says it is a bioecological theory, there is very little about the actual biology, which influences a person’s development. He does not talk about the normative patterns [...]

That wail of a baby! It could send you into a tizzy even if your parenting skills and experience rank the best. A yowl from the tiny one sends you scurrying to feed it, or if that does not work, to cradle it to sleep, or simply walk about, helpless. Designer Hansook Lee has attempted to actually decode baby cries! Ever thought it possible? It’s [...]

A new study shows that gay and lesbian teens that are rejected by their parents have a weaker psychological immunity to stress and addiction. It was also found out that parents who were discouraging and unhelpful to the worries of a gay adolescent usually did more harm than good. Gay and lesbian teenagers are at risk for substance abuse, promiscuous [...]