Bad parenting habits encompass a range of parenting behaviors that negatively impact a child’s well-being as well as the family’s stability. Children who are raised by parents who embody these unhelpful parenting habits experience difficulties in their growth and developmental years including: Low self-esteem Behavioral issues Academic struggles and Difficulties forming healthy relationships. Parents may […]
It is a cherished desire of parents to raise their children in an emotionally healthy home where each child feels loved and has a deep sense of belonging. Most parents do everything within their control to ensure each child feels safe within the family unit and that there is a harmonious relationship among members of […]
Modeling academic excellence in children involves identifying and cultivating and habits and skills associated with compounded academic improvement and achievement of the set academic goals. As a parent, you play a key role in this process by nurturing and helping your child acquire, develop and apply habits and skills that will make it possible to […]
Raising young adults and teenagers is very different from raising younger children. Teenagers and young adults are fully aware that they are separate and independent beings from their parents. They are also more aware of their departure from the family to start living independently. Therefore, they are more concerned about friendships, communities and career choices […]
An undermothered child is a child who is growing or grew up deprived of the warm, nurturing, loving care and emotional support from the mother or primary caregiver. In most cases, the primary caregiver is the biological mother. An undermothering mother fails to provide the conditions necessary for the child to be securely attached to […]
space Teenagehood is marked with astronomical physical, emotional and mental growth. Notably, the teenager’s brain undergoes unparalleled rapid growth and development. This key maturation process, coupled with the quest of autonomy and individuation from the family, makes teenagehood years confusing and challenging to the parent as well as to the teen himself. The following are […]
An emotionally immature parent is a parent who is unable to provide emotional needs to his/her child. The parent fails to make a solid emotional connection with the child. Owing to this, the child grows up emotionally malnourished and with an overwhelming sense of loneliness. This post will bring to your awareness 7 of the […]
Children show and receive parental love in a number of ways. From infancy, children are attached to parents and caregivers who provide for them, keep them safe and also meet their psychological and social needs. This is the reason why researchers in early childhood development like Bowlby emphasize the need for parents to be close […]
Parental expectations are the hopes, dreams and fears parents have about their children as they grow and how they will turn out upon maturation. Parental expectations have a colossal role in the day-to-day life of a child and how the child grows. For most children, especially at tender ages between 0-5 years, their sense of […]