Responsible Parenting : Akron Science School

Ensuring Better Safety On The Road

Ensuring better safety on the road at night with a HID conversion kit One of the most terrifying things about driving with your children is the night time. This can be a nerve-racking experience largely due to the fact that in the darkness you just don’t know what you can’t see. Even with the remarkable technological advancements that we have had in the automotive industry there still seems to... [Click here to Read more]

How Healthy Are Our Children?

A lot has changed about our lives in the last Century; from fashion and music through to technology and transport – never in the history of humankind has man revolutionised itself so much, in such a short space of time. However, while many of these changes have served to improve the way we live from day to day, there is one change that arguably hasn’t – our diet. Today, junk food is everywhere.... [Click here to Read more]

Memory Development in Babies

What would our lives be like if we could never remember an event, a favored memento, a loved one? It’s difficult to imagine. Many of our memories are incredibly detailed and tied to a multitude of experiences, which we remember via thoughts and words. We also hold vivid memories that are linked to experiences involving a scent or taste. In the springtime, a common flowering bush exudes a... [Click here to Read more]

The Development of Grasping Ability in Baby

Most of us don’t think consciously of our hands as tools, but tools they are. Hundreds of times each day, our hands serve us: they make our bodies presentable to others, assuage our hunger, commit our ideas to paper, play chess, knit a sweater, set a table, and give love. Although we share with nonhuman primates the ability to grasp, we are the only species that has a truly opposable thumb,... [Click here to Read more]

Understanding the Brain Development of Your Baby

This thing that you’ve seen on a shelf in a museum, resting in a bell jar, looks like an inert vegetable but it’s an old brain. That’s what it is. But don’t let this desiccated thing fool you. At some point, that brain was pulsating and active in somebody’s head, just like your brain is active right now!. The brain, all few pounds of it, is a marvelous organ composed... [Click here to Read more]

How to Maintain a Good Relationship with Your Teenager

You are probably like most parents and wondering how to maintain a good relationship with your teenager. Although these years can be challenging they can also be an opportunity for your relationship with your child to enter a very special phase. These are the years your relationship will begin to mature into one of friendship and mutual respect. Setting Boundaries For the teenager, the teen years... [Click here to Read more]

Teen Weight Loss – Tips To Become Slim and Stay Slim!

Teenagers have many problems to deal with and weight gain is unfortunately one of them. Teen weight loss is a very important subject these days given that many places in the world are struck by an obesity epidemic. It is possible to address this issue by changing the teenager’s diet and lifestyle and also by putting a few important support systems in place. Teen weight loss can be achieved by changing... [Click here to Read more]

Responsible Parenting – The Effects of Bullying!

We have all heard of the horror stories of children who were bullied and ended up taking the law into their own hands by shooting up their school. This has also regularly happened in the workplace, where an employee has been bullied to the point that they did not know what else to do. Suicide is also very common among those who have been bullied. These are some of the very visible effects of bullying,... [Click here to Read more]

The Importance of Sleep in Infants and Children

Adequate sleep is essential for everyone and the quality of sleep is also vital. However, the importance of sleep in infants and children is extremely important. In infants, getting adequate sleep is instinctual even though many new parents find this hard to believe. Although they seem to spend a lot of time crying, the reality is that they still manage to catch adequate sleep if their environment... [Click here to Read more]

Responsible Parenting – How to Handle Teens Who Won’t Listen!

Teens who won’t listen? Are they the exception or is not listening a normal part of being a teenager. Why is it that the little child who loved to refrain back to you “but mommy, you said…..” has grown into a young adult who seems to not only ignore what you say deliberately but goes out of their way to ensure they don’t need to listen to you. The Three “P” Principles of Communicating... [Click here to Read more]

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