How to Help Your Child Handle Fear

Think back to the time you were child’s age. Did you hate the dark? Were you ever afraid of monsters, bogeymen, or bears under your bed? Did the noise of the furnace heating up sound like someone creeping down the hall? Admit to your children that you had such fears when you were young. It helps kids to know that their fears are not abnormal and that they can talk about them with parents. This dialogue opens the door to exploring ways children can cope with fears.

How to Reduce the Chance Your Child Will Be Sexually Abused

Parents can lessen the chance for sexual abuse to occur by setting limits for their children. You can also lessen your children’s chances of being sexually abused by someone you know by monitoring the adults who come into contact with your youngsters. Be wary of any adult who wants to spend time alone with a child for no appear ant reason or shows an unusual interest in one child above the other youngsters. When your child complains about an adult, listen carefully to the complaint.

Characteristic of Teenagers Today: Know Their World

One of my exhilarating learning activities while here in the "land of free and the brave" is speaking to parents of teenagers. I've found that the older and younger generations here don't differ very much from those back home. They have the same pressure, the same concerns and the same desires for their children.

Safe Your Child At Home

To take your home safer for your youngster when they're around:

1. Keep unsafe products out of reach and locked up.  These include cleaning products, household chemicals and medicines. Keep medicines in containers with safety caps.

Teaching Your Child To Say "Please"

Childcare's character education should take priority over their academic education, says Rabbi Menachem Mendal Schneerson in Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe.

The esteemed Rebbe-deceased leader of the Lubavitcher movement of Hasidic Judaism - says all other education efforts are basically meaningless unless built on the solid foundation of good character.