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By Wacui Makori
Basic Principles of Parenting
Whenever things get tough, it helps to get back to the basics, to address issues from the very beginning and build upwards towards the desired solution. The same applies in parenting, sometimes when things with your child are not going as you would expect or want them to, it helps to look at the very basic principles of good parenting to identify where you could be doing wrong or not doing at all that is causing these problems. ...
Teach your child to be assertive
After the excitement of good grades in the K.C.P.E exams, reality is now slowly dawning in for the candidates. Form one is just around the corner and with it comes the very real possibility of dealing with bullying in the new school. Bullying has been identified as causing psychological pain to an individual; it instils fears and ultimately cripples personal growth.Child psychologist Timothy Njogu describes interaction between teens as taking ...
What is your child's temperament?
Last weekend, I was
invited for a parenting seminar and the topic of the day
revolved around understanding our children. In his remarks, the facilitator
told us that there is no right or wrong way for our children to be. We all are
just what we were created to be, no-one gets to choose a personality or
temperament; one is just born with it. He said, “We often label our children’s
traits as being ‘normal’ when we i...
Breeding Shame At Home
In
its most basic definition, shame is defined as a form of distress or
humiliation caused by consciousness or awareness of one’s guilt,
dishonour or recklessness. There is however another definition of
shame as an inner experience of being ‘not wanted’, being
unlovable and believing that one is irremediably bad.
This
type of shame is borne in childhood and has everything to do with the
kind of environment a child is ex...
Tips for practical, hands-on parenting
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