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Teaching Children How to Balance Technology and Life

Teaching Children How to Balance Technology and Life

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By teaching children how to use technology in a healthy way, we can help them develop the skills they need to lead a balanced and fulfilling life– Screen use among children is spreading like an epidemic. They are getting addicted to screens and this habit makes them stubborn and has health problems besides. Doctors say that the screen makes the child enjoy more and more, which cannot be replaced by parental love. So once the child is addicted to the…

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Nurturing a Positive Personality: Parenting Secrets

Nurturing a Positive Personality: Parenting Secrets

A positive personality helps children to be confident, and successful in life Personality is the set of characteristics that make a person unique. It includes their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Personality is shaped by a variety of factors; including genetics, environment, and life experiences. It is an image that lives in the minds of others and is what defines a person. For example, when the name of Nelson Mandela is mentioned, the image of a great, hard-working, and persistent leader is…

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Teaching Children How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety

Teaching Children How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety

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As parents, it is important to recognize the signs of stress and anxiety in our children and to provide them with the tools and resources to manage it. The child of a divorced mother was studying in 10th standard at our school. The mother lived in very poor conditions and used to beg to teach her child. One day, the child was verbally abused in the house and that minor verbal abuse drove the child to commit suicide. The mother, who…

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Tools for Children to Succeed in the 21st Century

Tools for Children to Succeed in the 21st Century

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As technology advances, it is important that children are taught the skills they need to be successful in the modern world. When I was a child, my mother used to tell me that my relatives could do hard physical labour like climbing mountains for firewood or harvesting crops, but I couldn’t. I was in the village with my mother at the time, and physical labour was regarded as a skill and perfection. Those who could harvest crops and climb mountains were…

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Teaching Children About Drug Addiction: The Curse

Teaching Children About Drug Addiction: The Curse

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By educating children about the risks of drug addiction, we can help them understand the consequences of their actions and make informed decisions about their health and well-being.. Addiction (to drug) is a disease, not a character flaw. It takes great courage and strength to confront the monster of addiction and try to put it in its place.”  — Demi Lovato One day, students reported that two schoolchildren were unconscious. When they were brought in, they were not in their full senses….

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Conflict Resolution Skills in Children

Conflict Resolution Skills in Children

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Conflict resolution skills teach children how to deal with disagreements and disputes in a positive and constructive manner– Conflict cannot survive without your participation. — Wayne Dyer As a child, there was always a problem at school because the children fought a lot. With few disinterested teachers, the children were not engaged in the class. They would threaten each other and fight in the streets after school time. Sometimes these fights even took place in groups. That was the age of chalkboards,…

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Parenting with Discipline: A Guide to Raising Happy, Positive Children

Parenting with Discipline: A Guide to Raising Happy, Positive Children

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It is important to establish rules and boundaries (Discipline) for children at an early age and enforce them consistently– Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. — Jim Rohn One day, a father came to my office with a complaint that my teacher was not allowing his son to sit in the class. I asked the teacher about the matter, and he told me; “The child does not sit in class, throws…

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How Reading Books As a Child Changed My Life? Proven Pathways

How Reading Books As a Child Changed My Life? Proven Pathways

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If I hadn’t spent my pocket money on books, you wouldn’t be reading this right now If you don’t read a book for two days and talk on the third day, your speech will not have the sweetness that it does after reading books. unknown The relationship between reading books and humans is as old as humans themselves — as old as human civilization. Our habits, which are formed by our thinking, shape our lives. Reading books has the most significant influence on…

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Developing Good Social Skills in Children: An Elder Story

Developing Good Social Skills in Children: An Elder Story

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Social skills assist children in making friends, getting along with others, and succeeding in life It may not have been more than two years ago when I had the opportunity to listen to an elder at a gathering. At that time I was not only well aware of communication skills but also working on them. This old man was an uneducated seventy-year-old who had hardly ever touched a pen in his life. While listening to him, I felt that this elder…

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Fostering Children’s Self-Confidence: Nurture Now to Avoid the Costs of Low Esteem

Fostering Children’s Self-Confidence: Nurture Now to Avoid the Costs of Low Esteem

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As parents, it is our responsibility to work on our children’s self-confidence. By doing so, we can help them to become more confident, resilient, and successful in life– Confidence is not ‘they will like me’. Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’. — Christina Grimmie There are many people around me who don’t have a degree. They have hardly earned a secondary certificate but earn many times more than me. Earning more means that they are living better than me and…

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