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Parenting Pointers: Parenting with Confidence

Motherhood Moments

Parenting is a difficult and rewarding task that comes with many challenges. In this pioneering book, “How To Do- Parenting With Confidence," Author Vanessa Kahlon offers a refreshingly honest and practical guide to the highs and lows of parenting. Why can it be helpful to have some "parenting one-liners?"

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Enriching Education: Study Reveals Crisis of Confidence in American Education

Motherhood Moments

Today the national think tank Populace , released its Purpose of Education Index , which reveals radical shifts in how Americans view K-12 education. The COVID era fundamentally altered the way most of us view education and what our kids should get out of it. Americans don’t want ‘better’; they want different.

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Emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 lockdown brought families closer together, but also required a lot from parents

Motherhood Moments

School closures and emergency remote teaching caused by the COVID-19 pandemic put a particular strain on families with children with special educational needs. However, parents were nevertheless also concerned about the learning, well-being and relationships with friends of their children.

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Parenting Pointers: Peaceful Parenting

Motherhood Moments

How can parents best meet the complex needs of their children in these complicated times? Giving and receiving the trust, communication, cooperation, respect, and joy that every parent and child deserves, ultimately allows our children to become the leaders our future so desperately needs.A What is Peaceful Parenting?

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Parenting Pointers: Synthetic Identity Theft

Motherhood Moments

Children are especially vulnerable to a new form of identity theft – synthetic – which now makes up 85 percent of cases and means thieves use combinations of real and fake information to take out loans, get credit cards, purchase cars, collect unemployment, and much more. How can parents protect their kids?

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Parenting Pointers: Speech Disorders and Friendships

Motherhood Moments

Published on the 17 January in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances , the study was led by researchers at the University of Bristol and used data from world-renowned longitudinal study Children of the 90s (also known as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, ALSPAC).

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Parenting Pointers: Cyber Legends and Cyberbullying

Motherhood Moments

33% of teenagers have sent explicit images or text to someone Only 38% of cyberbullying victims are willing to admit it to their parents. Being involved in their child’s online safety education provides parents comfort and enables open communication about current and future online activities and experiences they may engage in.

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