Bedtime matters! In a significant study a couple of years ago, British researchers compared the bedtimes of over 10,000 children and found that a regular bedtime had a significant influence on [...]
Back to School Tips Before your child starts another year of school, it can help to get in touch with exactly what is the role of school in your family’s life? Although home school can be [...]
In our “information age,” parents and authorities alike seem to put ever more emphasis on “early learning.” We have endless educational toys, flash cards, and kindergarten [...]
There is so much pressure on our children today to perform well in sports that many children and their parents overlook the importance of responding appropriately to pain. Often children are so [...]
A recent parenting book has added to what has been called the mindful parenting movement. Mindful Parenting, by Kristen Race, a brain researcher, has stimulated articles in the New York Times and [...]
With kids out of school and at home looking for things to do, don’t settle for them spending hours playing video games, surfing the Internet, watching friends’ posts on Facebook or [...]
Click here to read all 3 articles I hope you enjoyed these three important articles! Randy Rolfe Take Home Tips: Be candid with your kids about how you feel about drinking. But do so only after [...]
Click here to read the full post Randy Rolfe’s Take Home Tips. Kids are kids because they are less experienced in the ways of the world than their parents and because they are less strong [...]
When I was looking for an image of school for this article, I found only smiling faces of students fully engaged in the classroom or having fun on the playground, or smiling as they read their [...]
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the cost of being a parent. Reports claim that it costs $200,000 to $300,000 to get a child to age 18. That sounds pretty scary. How many of us [...]