Parenting Helps

Improve your parenting skills and your parenting knowledge with the info here. Parenting tips and help. Parents looking for advice on raising their kids will find a lot of great help here. Get parenting advice, tips for toddlers, tips for preschoolers, tips for children, tips for preteens, discipline ideas, chores, and more.

6.5k Pins

·15h

Babywise Mom | Valerie

What to look for in determining gifted vs smart kids. This post outlines 6 traits and what those traits look like in smart children vs gifted children. At some point in your parenting, you might start to realize your child is quite smart. The word gifted might even pop into your head. At same time, you will find yourself wondering, is she gifted or just really smart? How do you even determine that?

A gifted child has unique needs.

Just as a child in speech therapy needs specific education and help for that, a child who is gifted needs specific education and help. Most gifted children are out of sync in areas of life. “The more highly gifted the child, the more out of sync she is likely to be within herself, with wide difference between areas of strength and areas of relative weakness”. 15 most typical characteristics of gifted children. These characteristics can help you determine if your child might be gifted. These start on page 12 in the A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children book.

Has your child been identified as gifted or talented? Are you unsure exactly what that means? Here you'll find information about how gifted and talented children are identified and classified in the public school system and what services and other accommodations the schools are required to provide for them. Other gifted resources also included. Gifted and Talented Kids What You May NOT Know. SunshineandHurricanes.com

Parenting Gifted Children

Universal Orlando Parks Travel Tips for Families

Universal Snacks images. Green Eggs and Ham tots, hot butterbeer, giant donut, butterbeer ice cream, Mels Drive-in, and a cottage pie.

There will be a lot of testing going on with this age. Your little one will do things just to see if you will say no. She will ignore you to see what happens. She will also really want to continue her fun, and listening will mean she has to stop it. Here is how to respond when she ignores your instruction or tells you no. For the younger toddler, one of the most precious things to her is the ability to move around on her own. If she won’t obey, and you carry her instead of letting her walk, that is one of the most devastating things in her world right now. If she is misusing something, then she loses it for a time. The length of time will vary based on age. What to do when your child tells you “no” after given an instruction. Get step-by-step guidelines for baby through 8 years old. Positive Discipline, Logical Consequences, Strong Willed Child, Parenting Techniques, Discipline Kids, Her World, Stop It, Favorite Words, Positive Parenting

What to do when your toddler tells you NO!

There will be a lot of testing going on with this age. Your little one will do things just to see if you will say no. She will ignore you to see what happens. She will also really want to continue her fun, and listening will mean she has to stop it. Here is how to respond when she ignores your instruction or tells you no. For the younger toddler, one of the most precious things to her is the ability to move around on her own. If she won’t obey, and you carry her instead of letting her walk, that is one of the most devastating things in her world right now. If she is misusing something, then she loses it for a time. The length of time will vary based on age. What to do when your child tells you “no” after given an instruction. Get step-by-step guidelines for baby through 8 years old.

How to STOP Kids from Hitting and Biting. No one wants their child to hit or bite another child. It can be quite embarrassing to have your child hurt another child. If your child is hitting or biting siblings, it is not embarrassing but it is just as frustrating. Find out what to do and how to handle these situations. The Future, It Hurts

The Future

It Hurts

How to STOP Kids from Hitting and Biting

How to STOP Kids from Hitting and Biting. No one wants their child to hit or bite another child. It can be quite embarrassing to have your child hurt another child. If your child is hitting or biting siblings, it is not embarrassing but it is just as frustrating. Find out what to do and how to handle these situations.

My husband and I were engaged over what is known as “the holidays.” We had a short 7 week engagement that went from November 14 until January 2. We were also both full time college students, so we were engaged over finals week. Needless to say, it was a stressful time to try to cram in wedding plans. My husband and I found ourselves absolutely dreading the approaching holiday season. The last two years had not been enjoyable for us in the least. I hated dreading that time of year. It had previously been my favorite time of year, and religiously an important time of year. We decided we needed to set some boundaries and lay down expectations. Here are some frank tips for helping you to set your own boundaries. Tips to help you balance time with all sides of extended family Strong Marriage, Boundaries Tips, Were Engaged, How To Juggle, Marriage Goals, Finals Week, Little Family, January 2, Extended Family

Tips for Juggling Extended Family During Holidays

My husband and I were engaged over what is known as “the holidays.” We had a short 7 week engagement that went from November 14 until January 2. We were also both full time college students, so we were engaged over finals week. Needless to say, it was a stressful time to try to cram in wedding plans. My husband and I found ourselves absolutely dreading the approaching holiday season. The last two years had not been enjoyable for us in the least. I hated dreading that time of year. It had previously been my favorite time of year, and religiously an important time of year. We decided we needed to set some boundaries and lay down expectations. Here are some frank tips for helping you to set your own boundaries. Tips to help you balance time with all sides of extended family

a woman holding her head in front of a christmas tree with presents on it and the words how to keep the christmas spirit

Keeping the Christmas Spirit as a Parent

How to keep the Christmas spirit during the holidays even while you are busy getting Christmas ready for your family. 6 things you can do to help you keep the Christmas spirit and enjoy the reason for the season.

How To Stop Aggression in Kids

No one wants their child to be bullied. It is something that would break our hearts. But I think that even more so, we don’t want our child to be the bully. At least I feel that way. Luckily, I don’t think it has to be an either/or situation. Along the same lines, no one feels happiness inside when their little angel is aggressive toward another child. This post isn’t about the rare aggression. We are talking about when you would describe your child as aggressive. Get 9 tips for how to help your child stop being aggressive. This works for consistently aggressive kids and also occasional aggression.

three children sitting on hay bales with text overlay that reads 13 month old pretoddler schedule and routine

Brinley Pre-Toddler Summary: 13.5 Months Old

13.5 month old pretoddler schedule and routine. 13.5 month old schedule. Baby schedule for baby’s 58-59th weeks. 58-week-old and 59-week-old baby routine and daily life. Learn about feeding a pretoddler, weaning from a bottle, independent playtime, cleaning up after playtime, teething, and throwing food on the floor.

McKenna Teen Summary: 14.25 Years Old

Daily life and schedule for a 14.25 year old teen girl. Learn about common concerns that come up with the teenage group. This covers 14 years old through 14.25 years old.

8 year old life and daily routine. Learn about her daily schedule and how to handle things that come up with eight year olds. Learn about extracurricular activities, dealing with difficult friendships, and favorite books. Raising Kids, Difficult Friendships, Social Skills For Kids, Extracurricular Activities, Intentional Parenting, Extra Curricular Activities, Daily Schedule, Screen Time, Daily Routine

Raising Kids

Difficult Friendships

Social Skills For Kids

Extracurricular Activities

Intentional Parenting

Extra Curricular Activities

Daily Schedule

Screen Time

Daily Routine

Kaitlyn Child Summary {8 Years Old}

8 year old life and daily routine. Learn about her daily schedule and how to handle things that come up with eight year olds. Learn about extracurricular activities, dealing with difficult friendships, and favorite books.

Growth Spurts In Babies

Growth Spurts in Babies: All the Info

Growth Spurts in Babies: All the Info. Get all of the info you need for handling growth spurts in babies. Find out how often growth spurts happen and how they work. All about growth spurts. How to hand a growth spurt with your baby’s schedule, when to expect growth spurts to happen, and how growth spurts work.

two girls with yellow gloves and one girl is holding up a rainbow colored object while the other

Toddler Sticker Chart

Behavior Management Chart

Chores For Kids By Age

Free Printable Behavior Chart

Age Appropriate Chores For Kids

Free Printable Chore Charts

Chore Chart For Kids

Doing Chores

Age Appropriate Chores

A Beginner's Guide to Kids Doing Chores

It is not an easy road. There will be many years when your child’s contribution is waaaaayyy below the standard of clean you have set for yourself. There will be many more hours spent helping, teaching, and walking your child through chores than there would be if you just did it yourself. There will be many creative efforts taken by your children to find a way out of the chores. You will have frustrating days when it seems like no one is doing their chores or everyone is taking a million hours to do simple tasks. Sounds hard right? So why bother? See my simple 3-step method for teaching kids to do chores. You will also find 8 tips to make that 3-step method effective now and long-term.

an orange and white brochure with images of food

Thanksgiving Meal Ideas

Traditional Thanksgiving Recipes

Traditional Ideas

Traditional Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Meal

Hosting Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Side

Thanksgiving Traditions

Thanksgiving Menu

Traditional Thanksgiving Side Dishes

Once you get married and have children, the countdown is on and your days are numbered before you will find yourself hosting a Thanksgiving meal. Even before that big day comes, as an adult, you will likely be contributing to the meal and bringing a dish to share. We have hosted Thanksgiving a couple of times and actually find the menu to be be quite easy to make. Here are side dishes people listed as their must haves. Thanksgiving Meal Ideas. Thanksgiving menu items for side dishes, main dishes, and dessert. Traditional ideas and non-traditional Thanksgiving meal ideas.

the best toys for pre - toddlers to play with in their month's

Toys For 10 Month Old

Best Toys for PreToddlers 12-18 Months

Pretoddlers will develop milestones differently. Some will be focusing on gross motor skills while others care more about fine motor skills. You want toys that allow for growth in those areas. Toddlers are little scientists and will enjoy toys that provide an avenue for experimentation (turning knobs or dumping things out are experimenting). 35 of the best toys for pretoddlers. Great educational and fun toys and gift ideas for your 12-18-month-old little toddler.

Wake Early

Gentle Sleep Training

Unable To Sleep

Sleep Training Baby

Early Morning Wakings Reasons Why

Early Morning Wakings Reasons Why. Get all of the reasons your baby might be waking early in the morning. Your baby can wake early in the morning before your desired wake time for a variety of reasons. It often happens when baby is extending night sleep and making it longer between feedings in the middle of the night.