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Making Christmas Last All Day Long: Fun and New Traditions for this Holiday Season
By: Amanda Kimball We live in a fast-paced world. Our kids are accustomed to getting everything they want right when they want it. Then they move on to the next activity astonishingly quickly. It seems as if they are incapable of taking a minute to slow down and enjoy...
Helping Young Children Avoid P*rn Addiction
By Katelyn King No one wakes up in the morning and decides, “Today I am going to get addicted to porn”, especially not a 5th grader. But it can happen, and it does. It happened to my own brother. When my brother was in 5th grade, his best friend showed him a...
Online Bullying: What to Do!
How Parents Can Prevent And Deal with It By Ariane Robinson It’s true, kids can be cruel. I still vividly remember the insults thrown at me by a group of “popular” girls at my junior high. Their ridicule made it hard for me to attend school, but I knew at the end of...
Inspiring Kids to Choose Their Own Body Image
By Hannah Herring Growing up, my hair was almost always long. By the time I was twenty, I had allowed my hair to grow past my hips. One day, I woke up and announced to my roommate that I was getting my hair cut. We found a salon and walked in. I informed the...
Social Media and Kids: 6 Tips for Curbing Isolation and Loneliness
By Ariane Robinson Thanks to social media, video chatting, text messaging, and emails it’s easy to connect with friends and family. All-day long we text, post, and comment. Wouldn’t that mean that we are closer and more connected to others than ever before?...
Social Media Bullying: Understand It. Stop It!
By: Courtney Cagle Amber was browsing Instagram when she saw an unappealing picture of one of her school peers. Curious, she started going through the comment section to see what her friends were saying about the picture. Her friends were posting comments such as,...
5 maneras en que los niños pueden usar los teléfonos inteligentes para bien
Por Haley Hawks Traducido por Luis Antonio Mayen Castellanos Nací en 1995, y me pareció que estaba en medio de una gran revolución tecnológica. Recuerdo cuando mi escuela pasó de no tener computadoras, a clases obligatorias de computación, con papeles escritos a mano,...
No tengas “La Charla de Sexo” con tu hijo: ¡tengan muchas!
Por Amanda Grossman-Scott Traducido por Luis Antonio Mayen Castellanos La primera vez que tuve una conversación sobre sexo con mi hijo mayor, probablemente le di demasiada información. Todo comenzó cuando asistí a una proyección para padres de la película que...
Lesson: Talking to Your Kids About Consent
It is absolutely imperative that your teen knows what it means to give consent. They need to know that if any attention is unwanted, it needs to stop. Consent is giving informed, clear, and conscious permission or agreement. It’s crucial that your teens understand what constitutes consent when it comes to sex, both for themselves and for others, so they will know when “yes” really means “yes.”
Errores comunes que los padres cometen cuando hablan a sus hijos sobre el sexo
Por: Ariane Robinson Traducido por: L. Antonio Mayen Castellanos Para muchos padres, la parte más difícil de tener "la conversación" con sus hijos es saber cómo iniciar la conversación. Mientras crecía, recuerdo a mis propios padres andar de puntillas...
Kids Can Change the World with Their Phones: Do Your Kids Know How?
By Ariane Robinson So many amazing changes and movements have been created by teens across the world. Powerful examples like Malala Yousafzai’s fight against the Taliban for girls’ education and the students behind the more recent #neveragain movement after recent...
What Online Predators Don’t Want YOU to Do
By Kelli Bouck As I scrolled through the photos on my phone, I was caught up in all the spectacular pictures I had just taken while on vacation with my sisters, until my eyes fell upon something I never expected to see. Right there, among my vacation photos, appeared...
UNA SIMPLE LECCIÓN PARA ENSEÑAR A TUS HIJOS DE CONTACTOS FÍSICOS POSITIVOS/CONTACTOS FÍSICOS NEGATIVOS
Ayuda a tu hijo a comprender que hay buenas maneras de contacto físico y otras que no son apropiadas. Capacítalos enseñándoles a conocer el propósito y el significado del contacto físico positivo y que el negativo es un mal contacto que los hará sentir incómodos. Les...
Tame Your Family’s Media Before it Takes Over Your Lives!
3 Simple Ways to Keep Your Family Media-Healthy By Haley Johnson When I was eight years old, I attended my best friend’s birthday party. Her parents were lavish with her, and the parties were extremely engaging. This particular year I remember being shocked and...
