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Parents Monitor Your Children

By: Anthony DillettThere is a wide generation gap on Internet usage between parents and children and the gap continues to grow as more children are introduced to computers and the Internet. Recent figures show that 90% of school-age children have access to computers either at home or at school (National Center for Education Statistics [...]

Sponsor Your Elderly Parents

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By: Lindsay Wagner

Should I consider finding a house nurse? Should I send my parent/parents to an old age home? What will make them happy?
It’s been documented that because millions of people are deciding to migrate, millions of frail elderly people are left behind to fend for themselves. While the young leave their home countries for [...]

Planning for Parent Care or Spur of the Moment Elder Care Decisions…you Decide

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By: Carol McGowan RN and Cindy Streekstra RN

When our family members are well, we usually do not think about what may happen in the future. As baby boomers age, they will become the largest group of elderly that our nation has ever had. And, their parents are aging as well. As a result of these [...]

Parent and Child Problems

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By: Sylvia White

How hard is it to be a parent?  In one sense it is quite easy, but when it comes down to helping and advising your children it can be very difficult.
 Parents always think they know best and that is part of the problem, we don’t.
 Yes we have been through those difficult years so [...]

The Life Cycle – Taking Care of Your Parents

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By: Lori S.m. Hollenback

There comes a time when every child has to take care of their parents as they age. Some of us will take them in, but when they need more care than you can provide you turn to assisted living or a nursing home. Here are two things to consider when looking [...]

Maintaining Sibling Relationships as We Lose our Parents

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By: James P Krehbiel

We of the baby-boomer generation are feeling the pressure as we provide care for our elderly parents.  It is painful as we helplessly watch our loved one’s experience the impact of failing health.  We feel powerless against the ravages of deteriorating health and mourn our losses as our parents begin the descent [...]

Educating parents through parent teacher associations

By: Vikas SThe norms in academics are getting more and more stringent, the curriculum at school is getting larger and new age moms and dads are becoming busier. There is a huge gap between what the children do at school and the extent to which parents are being able to help students. Neither is it [...]

Attachment Parenting: Parenting in a Detached Society

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By: Stephanie Lehane

ATTACHMENT PARENTING:  PARENTING IN A DETACHED SOCIETY
By Stephanie Lehane  (January 2009)
There is a modern-day debate surrounding a centuries old practice that has been coined “attachment parenting”.  To first understand the controversy, one must define the term attachment parenting.  Attachment parenting is a way of child-rearing that serves as a guideline, rather than a [...]

Finding Parental Advice Online

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By: andrew.regan.2006@googlemail.com

Every year of a child’s young life can be a challenge to work through for the parents as well as the child, and learning how to deal with specific situations as they arise can be tricky. After all, no one gives you a manual on how to be a good parent when your little [...]

Is Your Elderly Parent Driving You Nuts?

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By: Carolyn L. Rosenblatt

By:  Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, R. N., Attorney at Law
Caregiving can be a beautiful, though difficult experience.  We love our parents, and want to help as they grow frail and less able to do for themselves.  It is our last chance, at this part of their lives, to show love, to be loved [...]

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