24 People Who Are Really Nailing This Parenting Thing. Best story book ever. Karma's World: Home. Where's The Best Place To Be a Mother? Not America. The organization Save The Children has come out with their Annual State of the World’s Mothers Report.
The rankings compare 165 countries — 122 in the developing world —looking at the quality of maternal health, education and economic status as well as the nutrition and well-bring of children. According to the report, the top ten best places to be a mother include Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Belgium, Ireland the UK and The Netherlands. Norway is ranked the highest. Niger is ranked the lowest, replacing Afghanistan which has shown some small improvement from last year when it came last on this list. The US comes in at #25, between Belarus and the Czech Republic. According to the report, America’s poor showing is the result of several contributing factors: This years’ report makes many recommendations; one of which is to increase breastfeeding around the world.
According to the report, obstacles to breastfeeding include: 25 Ways to Talk So Children Will Listen. A major part of discipline is learning how to talk with children.
The way you talk to your child teaches him how to talk to others. Here are some talking tips we have learned with our children: 1. Connect Before You Direct Before giving your child directions, squat to your child’s eye level and engage your child in eye-to-eye contact to get his attention. 2. Open your request with the child’s name, “Lauren, will you please…” 3. We use the one-sentence rule: Put the main directive in the opening sentence. 4. Use short sentences with one-syllable words. 5. If he can’t, it’s too long or too complicated. 6.
You can reason with a two or three-year-old, especially to avoid power struggles. 7. Instead of “no running,” try: “Inside we walk, outside you may run.” 8. Instead of “Get down,” say “I want you to get down.” 9. “When you get your teeth brushed, then we’ll begin the story.” 10. Instead of hollering, “Turn off the TV, it’s time for dinner!” Pregnancy Week by Week. Parenting.com: Pregnancy, Babies, Toddlers and Big Kids. 7 Things Every Parent Should Discuss with Their Children and 3 Things They Absolutely Should Not. Image via John Cave Osborne To be an effective parent, you must also be an effective communicator.
Yet being an effective communicator doesn’t necessarily make you an effective parent. After all, there’s the little issue of what, exactly, it is that you should be communicating to your children. And, perhaps even more importantly, what it is that you shouldn’t be communicating to them. Here are seven things that definitely need to be covered: 1. Image: DamienHR’s photostream via Creative Commons Parents owe it to their children to have a discussion about God, whether they’re believers or not. 2. Image: je@an’s photostream via Creative Commons A lot of people have a hard time talking about sex with their spouse, much less with their children, but it’s imperative to tackle this issue early and often. 3.
Image: Marion Doss’s photostream via Creative Commons You don’t exactly have to keep your eyes peeled for tragic stories involving fatalities due to underage drinking and drug use.