'Single Parents' Section

How To Balance A Family, Your Job, And Your Stresses

In can be difficult for adults to have to take care of their families and manage their careers. This can cause a lot of stress and anxiety. As a result, here are a few steps in how to do take care of your family and your career without getting stressed.
Try to set goals for […]

Choosing Gifts For Your Mother

Choosing gifts for your mother is not an easy task to do. When we decide to buy a present, we cannot be 100 percent sure that she will really appreciate it or not. How will you know what she’ll appreciate? You are either a single mother yourself, you asked one what she could really […]

Choosing A Unique Baby Shower Gift Idea: An Important Decision

Unique baby shower gifts can be fun and creative or personal and memorable. As long as they are from the heart, unique baby shower gifts become keepsakes that families will treasure for a lifetime.
Baby showers are meant to celebrate the impending arrival of the newborn baby into the family. The baby shower party […]

Getting Your Child To Eat Vegetables

Many parents strive to ensure that their children eat vegetables. Some meet with complete success, others with very little success. Veggies contain many vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients that a body needs to main good health and energy. They help protect against the effect of aging and reduce the risk of cancer and […]

Buying Bunk Beds For Kids

Among bunk beds, the most common are bunk beds for kids. Bunk beds made for adults differ with children bed bunks, since the former serves a more functional purpose, similar to military bunk beds. On the other hand, childrens’ bunk beds are built for another purpose - an entertaining one - and that is, […]

No Kidding - Preparation The Key To Preventing Abducted, Missing Children

Did you know that, according to figures from the RCMP, approximately 186 children are reported missing each day in Canada? That’s one almost every 7.75 minutes; recent US statistics are much more alarming, somewhere in the United States approximately every 40 seconds a child is reported missing. In fact, by the time you have […]

What Parents Need To Know About Child Safety And Identification

There seems to be a general misconception concerning child safety and child identification. In speaking with parents, one thing becomes very clear. Parents commonly believe, that by recording their children’s fingerprints and DNA information, they have taken all the steps necessary in order to protect as well as provide identification for their children.
Unfortunately, this […]

Bird Flu Blues - Helping Kids Cope With Fear

My son Josh was scared. You could see it in his little face. Angst was written all over him. His knuckles were as white as his t-shirt. He starred down. “What’s up?” I asked with a smile hoping to relieve his fears. “Daddy,” he nervously replied, “I’m afraid I’ll get Bird Flu!”
And this from […]

Snatched In The Night-What Every Parent Should Know About Home Invasion Abductions

Home invasions have made the news recently as a frightening form of child abduction. This type of abduction is not new, but it is starting to become more common as traditional forms of child abduction are becomming less effective.
This type of child snatching has parents panicked and paranoid. After all, where is your child […]

Toilet Training Children With Down Syndrome

Most parents wonder how their children with Down syndrome will learn to become toilet trained. This is understandably an anxious time for a parent, as you might be thinking about sending your child to a preschool program and wonder if he will ever be out of diapers. Teaching any child to use the toilet […]