Nana, poppa, grandma, and grandad. They come with all sorts of names and can be some of the most special people in children's lives. But the generation gap between grandparents and kids can sometimes be hard to navigate. Joy Sluiters from the Parenting Place, spoke to The AM Show. Watch the video. … [Read more...] about How to build relationships between grandparents and children
Between parents and children
David Coleman: When the dinner table turns into a warzone between parents and kids
In my experience, however, the issues that parents have with their child's eating habits are more to do with the dynamic that has grown between the parent(s) and child, rather than being about food, per se. Children instinctively know that they need food to survive. The smallest of infants, the most active toddlers, and the most laid-back teenagers all know that food is essential for life. And so, all children eat. The trouble only arises when they don't eat what their parents want them to eat, or they don't eat when their parents want them to eat. I think it is entirely wise for children to pay attention to the signals from their bodies and to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. In other words, like a grazing animal, they eat as hunger comes upon them and they stop eating when they have had enough. Ironically, while eating is an instinctive act for children (and adults), we must also remember that a desire to feed our children, to both nurture and sustain them, is an … [Read more...] about David Coleman: When the dinner table turns into a warzone between parents and kids
WATCH: Violent fight breaks out between PARENTS at children’s football match while kids watch on sobbing in southern Spain
THIS is the moment a violent fight breaks out between parents during their children’s football match in Murcia. The shocking video sees kids getting caught in the middle of the adults’ punches. Parents can be seen kicking each other to the floor by the side of the pitch as their children watch on sobbing. The incident broke out today during a ‘friendly’ children’s match between Beniajan and Lorqui at the Campo Municipal de Los Marques. It is believed some adults became aggressive after hearing other parents insulting their children during the game. … [Read more...] about WATCH: Violent fight breaks out between PARENTS at children’s football match while kids watch on sobbing in southern Spain
The growing disconnect between parents and children
While it is clear that new inventions in the field of audio-visual technologies are presenting new challenges for parents in terms of their role in raising their children, it is also clear that the role and responsibilities of parents, in other words the significance of appropriate parenting, has never been as crucial as now in the wake of digital technologies and the way they have absorbed children, adults and families.In order to fulfill this role appropriately in light of children's access to various provisions of the internet – which is increasingly happening at much younger ages – and the diversifying content of the issues, not only do parental digital literacy skills become more crucial in empowering and protecting children, but also the significance of parental modelling behavior and the quality of parent-child interactions and relationships. In other words, as the number of gratifying and enticing stimulants increase rapidly, the significance of providing children … [Read more...] about The growing disconnect between parents and children
Parents and children living in poverty have the same aspirations as those who are better off
Much is written and said about families living in poverty, but accounts rarely draw on the experiences of these families themselves, writes Gill Main.Read the newspapers or listen to politicians, and you’d think that these “troubled families” are fundamentally different to better off people. They are presented as living in “cultures of dependency”, where no one has had a job for generations.People claiming social security benefits are portrayed as feckless scroungers.That’s why my colleagues and I spent two years with eight families in Leeds and York, developing an in-depth understanding of how they thought, talked and acted in relation to their resources.We also surveyed 1,000 parent-child pairs, with children aged ten to 17 who were representative of England in terms of gender, age and socioeconomic status, to find out how families’ different approaches to getting and sharing resources related to the well-being of children.After checking and … [Read more...] about Parents and children living in poverty have the same aspirations as those who are better off