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Daily Steps To Mindful Living
Most parents know how to support a healthy immune system in their child— but preventing mental illness and improving their mental health? Not so much.
Many parents wonder to what degree they really can help a child overcome a family history of addiction or mental illness. And they question what it will take to help their child navigate the stresses of adolescence and young adulthood with mental health intact.
[Read more…] about 10 Tips for Boosting Your Child’s Immunity to Mental IllnessMillennials are facing challenges to marriage that are vastly different from those of their parents and grandparents. This generation (born between 1981-1996) are also getting married at an older age than their parents.
But chronological age aside, their values and how they view their roles in matrimony are vastly different from those of the older generations. These are factors that have raised relationship challenges that were not as evident before.
[Read more…] about 4 Challenges of Marriage in The Modern World and How to Handle ThemNow that I have kids of my own, I have come to appreciate the delicate balance of discipline and affection that my father had to maintain in handling us, his own children. Fathers have their special parenting challenges that are different from mothers.
[Read more…] about Lessons I Learned From My Father About ParentingMillennial dads came when the world wasn’t looking. Yes, at their current age range, most millennials have become parents to Generation Alpha kids. While mothers of any generation take naturally to child-rearing and bonding (we carried them in our wombs for nine months, after all,) dads, in general, do not have this inherent ability.
[Read more…] about Millennial Dads: How To Strengthen The Bond Between You And Your ChildBeing a new parent is challenging on so many levels. Physically, you have to be up and with the baby all the time, and if you’re the mom, you’re still recovering from childbirth. Mentally, you need to be stable under stress and adjust to the idea of having a kid.
Financially, you have to buy baby necessities and equipment which can end up costing a lot of money. People can’t really help on the first two fronts, but they can aid new parents with actually practical gifts that they’ll love and use every day. If you want to help new parents adjust to their little one, definitely add these items to the gift list.
[Read more…] about Gifts That Are Actually Useful for New ParentsWhen our loved ones get older, it’s hard to see their physical and mental abilities deteriorate. With many of us preferring our senior loved ones to stay at home in their final years, it’s important that they are well looked after and cared for. With that in mind, here are five ways to help senior family members age independently.
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