Top 3 Tips to Nurturing Your Child’s Creative Side

By Guest Writer Brenda Lyttle
It is almost accepted as a norm by most people that the level of creativity is innate in every individual. All we can do is accept the way our mind works. The truth is, our growing environment in our tender years decide our graph of creativity to a great extent. Discouraging [...]

Yoga: The New Way for Teens to Beat Stress

There have never been any quick fix solutions to dealing with the pressures of a teen’s life: peer pressure, competition, the search for independence and belonging, school, hormones, family conflict. For a large number of teens the anxiety evoked by everyday life can lead them down a path of sexual promiscuity and alcohol and drug [...]

6 Pieces of Advice on Finding Parenting Strategies that Work

Not all expert parenting advice will fit every family or every family circumstance. Although parenting literature it is often based on sound psychological theory and principles, there are too many variables to consider when applying any given technique to a particular situation. Parenting strategies cannot take into account specific family dynamics, unique parent and child [...]

7 Ways to Prevent and Stop Bullying

Everyone has a responsibility in making their communities, homes and schools a safe and happy place for kids to be. Every year, thousands of kids are victimized by bullies and suffer the effects of fear and humiliation without support. Children do not always speak up when they’re being harassed because they are often embarrassed or [...]

4 Ways to Decrease Homework Frustrations

With the creation of routines and the development of healthy work habits, children can get homework done in a timely manner, and with less frustration.
Homework time can often be very stressful for children and their parents. Children can feel overwhelmed due to the amount of homework assigned, they may have a lack of understanding of [...]

Teaching Acceptance to Children: 5 Golden Rules

When children know about and are comfortable with people of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds, there are fewer incidences of intolerance and prejudice bullying. When children are taught acceptance they do not factor in exclusion criteria for being friends with someone of a different colour or religion; they are willing to accept people for [...]

How to Find the Right Help: Choosing a Mental Health Professional

Getting started with resources to help improve your mental well-being, or the overall well-being of your family, can be difficult at best. Finding a mental health professional that you feel comfortable with is like shopping for a good pair of shoes – they need to be a good fit! It’s a good idea to contact [...]

5 Steps to Improved Mental Health

Learn: Mental illness does not discriminate among social economic status, race, culture or occupation. All humans are vulnerable to being affected my mental illness – either through a family member, a friend or co-worker – or through personal experience. Acquiring information about common mental illnesses can ease fears or stigmas associated with mental health disorders.
Some [...]

7 Habits of People Who Successfully Cope with Stress

by Guest Writer Ryan Rivera
Stress is a normal part of life that can affect everyone at any given point of time. It is part of our body’s reaction to pressures from our work, problems in our finances and conflicts in our personal relationships. Truthfully, stress is a friend that helps us deal with pressing situations [...]

What’s your Attitude About School?

Helping Kids to Feel Good About Their Learning Experience
Parents who encourage and model positive opinions about education can teach kids to manage school stress and enjoy the experience.
As curriculum requirements continue to increase in all levels of education, students are experiencing considerable amounts of school stress. Most of this stress is caused by having too much [...]

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