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Getting Pregnant

How Long Can You Take Prenatal Vitamins?

As you hold that bottle of prenatal vitamins, a cascade of questions might flood your thoughts. One particular query might stand out: how long can you take prenatal vitamins? Well, dear reader, buckle up! We’re about to dive into what prenatal vitamins entail and the healthy timeframe of usage.
A prenatal vitamin isn’t just a supplement. Within each small pill lies teeming nutrients, ensuring both mom and baby remain healthy. But when should these pills become a part of your life, and should you stop taking them…

cbd for anxiety in teenager
Health

CBD for Anxiety in Teenager? Risks and Benefits

A 2020 study about Canadian youths reveals that many young adults 10-22 suffer from anxiety disorders. It is disturbingly becoming a norm for teenagers to experience a social anxiety disorder.
With CBD’s impressive feats in anxiety treatment, it’s no wonder people consider it for treatment in teens.
In this post, we’ll explore details about CBD for anxiety in teens.We will also weigh the …

Health

How Parents Can Model Healthy Habits

Imitating our role models has always been a critical part of childhood development. In fact, the power of mirroring is “pre-programmed” into everyone’s brains — helping people navigate their early years and adapt to customs and beliefs around us. As children stay with their parents for most of their lives, it’s unsurprising that kids pick up habits and behaviors from them, whether good or bad. To ensure children grow up to make healthy choices, parents should not just tell …

Health

How To Teach Your Child to Make Their Bed

Teaching your child how to do chores is important and essential for their growth and development. Most kids may not enjoy it, but it helps create structure and good habits, while also teaching them important social and emotional lessons. 
When you teach your kids how to do chores, they learn the importance of responsibility and doing their part for the improvement of their surroundings or their quality of life.
Having your child make their own bed in the morning is a great introductory chore for them. It’s very …

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Parenting

What Every Parent Needs to Know About Vaping

Vaping is a common behaviour among teenagers today. These teens inhale and exhale vapour from electronic cigarettes to feel pleasure. Young people prefer premium juice to regular cigarette smoke because it is cheaper and safer.
Considering these teenagers are under parental care, parents must understand vaping comprehensively. Parents can tell if their children are vaping or advise them if they know how it works.
How Vaping Works
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are devices designed to allow users to inhale nicotine …

Health

How To Stop Nursing Your Baby To Sleep

There’s nothing more magical than nursing your baby and watching them fall sound asleep in your arms. But it can become a problem when they become too reliant on that pre-bedtime feed and become unable to sleep without getting nursed first. 
This can result in everyone’s sleep being disrupted. You could be setting yourself up for a lot of sleepless nights until your baby grows out of it themselves.
Fortunately, it is possible to break this habit of nursing before sleep.

Parenting

How To Teach Kids to Engage in Positive Self-Talk

It’s common for children to fall back into negative self-talk when they’re faced with a particularly difficult challenge that they feel they can’t overcome. Feelings of doubt and self-depreciation start to arise and it can be hard to get rid of once the feelings kick in. 
When teaching them how to cope with negative and self-deprecating thoughts, it’s important to emphasize that these negative thoughts and feelings should be acknowledged and not erased but they should also reframe their thinking and focus on the positives that the situation brought on …

Parenting

How To Support Your Child’s Mental Health

Keeping your kids physically healthy is a feat that most parents excel at. But when it comes to their emotional and mental well-being, it’s another story entirely. It’s important to place value on caring for your child’s mental health because this is what allows them to develop resilience against the obstacles and challenges that they will eventually face in the real world.
But being both emotionally and mentally healthy is not something that can happen easily and organically. Here are ways you can nurture your child’s mental health:

Health

Why Is My Child Chewing on Their Shirt?

During a baby’s oral stage, they get the urge to take everything they could get their hands on and put it in their mouth. They usually do this when they’re teething or when they want to explore the world around them. But, what about when an older child suddenly starts chewing on their shirt?
A child may seek oral stimulation during their development stages. This is rooted in a human’s most basic methods and need for self-regulation and calming. Older kids may also still seek this, and not just infants or toddlers. 

Ages and Stages

Staying Connected to Your College Freshman

Sending their kids off to a college is one of the most difficult things a parent can go through. You’ll miss your day-to-day interactions and the feeling of just having them nearby. Every day, you debate whether you should initiate communication or wait for them to contact you first.
It can also be hard to balance being there for your child while also not being intrusive. This transition can definitely bring about major changes in your life but if these changes are handled right then it can result in your child growing into a mature and responsible adult. …