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Dads (and Mums as well) believe it is their responsibility to keep their children safe. However, avoiding anything potentially dangerous is not the best way to equip our children to navigate dangers in the future. In our desire to keep our children safe, we may end up teaching them to be afraid of things like
Have you discussed climate change with your kids? Perhaps you should, as climate change has an effect on more than just the world’s weather and economy; it also affects children’s healthy psychological growth and has sparked an increase in eco-anxiety. Here are some suggestions for you if you want to talk to your kids about
Children like to be praised. Besides feeling good, praise builds up their self-esteem and confidence. But praise must be done correctly or it could backfire. Think about how you usually praise your child for something well. Most would say something like “Good job,” “Well done,” or “You’re so smart”? It turns out that such praise
Out of good intentions, parents want to see their children spend their precious time studying and not wasting it away on computer games or social media. But the brain is not a computer that can keep working endlessly. It is like a muscle that can get tired and needs rest. For every fifty minutes of
Because time is money, your boss may demand that you and your colleagues do not take too many breaks while at work. Similarly, parents believe that time equals their children’s grades. Guided by this notion, parents insist that their children bury their heads in their school books for hours on end. This could backfire. In
In South Africa’s Pilanesberg Park, rhinos were thriving until some of them began to get killed off. The rhinos were not killed by poachers and neither did they die of disease. So, who killed the rhinos? Of the over 50 badly mutilated rhino carcasses discovered, all had wounds to the top of the shoulders and
Do your kids misbehave once in a while? Do you think that they will behave better if they wanted to? Dr Stuart Ablon and his team have discovered that kids do not behave well not because of a lack of willpower but because they can’t. To behave better, children need more skills, not will. Childhood
Parents know how addictive video games can be. Kids, particularly boys, prefer to spend hours playing them than doing other more important tasks, like homework and exercise. Apart from the dopamine rush that kids experience while gaming, there is another aspect of video games that is not often talked about, and it is something parents
Teaching children good behaviour is our duty as parents. The most common method parents use to achieve this is setting rules and punishing children when they break them. However, there is a different and better way of achieving this. To teach children to behave well, setting rules is not the only way. Adam Grant, father
Parents, I am going to give you five seconds to answer this simple questions: How many family rules do you have currently. 5, 4. 3. 2. 1. Time’s up. If you were not able to give me a number, then you most likely have too many. Every parent knows the importance of having rules for their
