Good Parenting Guide

  Parenting Tips and Advice

Avoid Helicopter Parenting

It's likely that by now you already know that 'helicopter parenting' means 'hovering' over your child at all times. It's fine to be a protective parent, but micromanaging all your child does is not. Better to be a 'submarine parent' and step in only when needed, to allow child to grow.

Breastfeeding Baby Problems

Generally considered to be the best option for baby's health and wellbeing, breastfeeding is not void of many different problems. From baby's reaction to breast feeding to sometime mother's milk production issues. But there are health benefits for the baby.

Breastfeeding Questions

As a new mother, no doubt you'll have many questions about breastfeeding. How often should the baby be nursed, breastfeeding at night, and what age should breastfeeding be dropped. These and other questions are answered.

Four Parenting Styles

Each parents will have different parenting styles, but basically those can be reduced down to 4 different styles: authoritarian, indulgent, authoritative, and passive parenting. The best parenting though happens with combination of two or more styles.

Good Parenting Tidbits

As a new parent you're faced with many different issues that you are expected to understand and deal with. Some of the most important baby topics are those of Caesarian delivery, how to bath your baby, SIDS or crib death, and even circumcision.

Manage Home as Single Parent

Households headed by one parent are a growing reality. Children from these households grow up with a more open view of the traditional roles and knowing the value of the hard work. Here are some tips to manage a happy and healthy family as a single parent.

Parenting Tips for Babies

For any family, especially a young family, parenting is a challenging, full-time occupation. Goog parenting tips helps you deal with many parenting responsibilities, from baby diapers and thumb sucking, to baby growth and immunizations.

Parents Health Issues

The health of your child is one of your key responsibilities as a parent. Often parents are ready to sacrifice anything for their child to have a happy and enjoyable childhood. But this care should not be detrimental to parents' health, who must ensure that they look after their wellbeing.

Raise a Strong Army Family

These days women enjoy more equality in the army forces and many have chosen a military career. But can a soldier mom balance her career with that of raising a family? With the help from husband, moms in armed forces can raise a strong army family.

Single Parenting Tips

Parenting can be hard even with both parents present. But single parenting can be even more challenging and demanding. By assuming role of both parents, single mom's task is ever greater, that requires some good tips to guide her through.

Terrible Twos Advice

Whoever termed the phrase "Terrible Twos" was mistaken to apply the terminology to boys or girls at the age of two. The author Jillian Livingston writes from her motherhood experience how "terrible twos" are a lot of fun, contrary to what the phrase implies.