| Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 10:40:49 AM by Rose Martins | It's not always easy to be a parent and know that you are raising your child correctly.  There are no real parenting manuals, or parenting 101 courses to be taken that can give you a set of definite rules on how to be a good parents.
Never the less, there are plenty books out there that can give you an opinion on parenting, and some parenting aids and tips. Not every method works for every child, but you can probably find a parenting book out there that suits your style of parenting, and works for you and your child. Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting by Michael H. Popkin, Ph.D., is one such book.
This book offers week-by-week activities involving the whole family that are designed to promote good parenting, build family bonds and to simply have a good time. Even homework can become an activity in which you, the parent, can become actively involved and in which you can all have fun.
The activities suggested in the book, might seem to be pretty simple, but they are parenting methods that have been tried and tested, and come up trumps.
The author, Michael "Doc Pop" Popkin, Ph.D., is well known in the USA and has appeared on TV as a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and on CNN broadcasts. His methods with regards to parenting have been proven successful and used by parents throughout the USA.
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| | | NEWS UPDATE | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:48:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Background: Oregon's breast-feeding rates ranked highest in the nation last year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Oregon, 89 percent of new mothers in 2005 started breast-feeding, compared with 73 percent nationwide. Update: A volunteer grass-roots organization often recognized for raising breast-feeding awareness celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, including at a conference this weekend in Eugene. Seven women in suburban Chicago founded La Leche League International in October 1956, convinced that women trying to breast-feed lacked proper support from doctors and medical books. "It just seemed unfair to me that women who wanted to do the best for their babies couldn't get any help," co-founder Marian Tompson of Evanston, Ill., said last week.... | |
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| | | Exceptional marriages for normal people | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:50:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | There are many happily married people around and the world needs to hear from them, says a well-known radio host. Dr Greg Popcak's enthusiasm for marriage leaps off the pages of his website. The American family counsellor and popular Heart, Mind and Strength radio host insists that even today, when there seems to be so much against it, a couple can live happily ever after together. But it takes work. If it's comfort you want, he says, "don't get a marriage license, buy a Barcalounger." In this interview with MercatorNet, he talks about how to attract young people to marriage, the blessings of parenthood and what it takes to have an exceptional marriage. .... | |
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| | | Around Town... | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 6:50:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | South Peace and Mighty Peace Rural Electricification Associations are holding a special general meeting Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sexsmith and District Community Centre to vote on a resolution to amalgamate. For more information, call the South Peace REA at 1-888-957-2907. Nov. 3 Lost in Traffic, a play on the trafficking of women and children, takes place at GPRC Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Centre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students and are available at Second Street Theatre. Sponsored by Catholic Women's League and Canadian Religious Conference. Alberta Beef Producers fall producer meeting and election takes place Nov. 3 at Trumpeter Hotel and Meeting Centre. Beef-on-a-bun supper at 6 p.m., followed by meeting at 7 p.m.... | |
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| | | Nick Jr. Family Magazine November Issue Names Best Video Games and Fifty Best Toys in 2006 for Kids' Holiday Wish List | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:48:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The holiday season is once again upon us, which for some parents means frantically trying to find the perfect gift for their little ones. The November issue of Nick Jr. Family Magazine, on sale October 24, takes a look at the newest toys, gadgets, clothing and books for which kids will be clamoring. For the tech savvy kids, also featured are the Best Video Games for Kids of 2006, which lists the cream of the crop in console and PC games. The November issue also offers a behind-the-scenes look at dinnertime in the home of famed Chef Emeril Lagasse as well as celebrates the joy of the modern blended family. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061023/NYM052 ) .... | |
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| | | Baby TALK continues to meet the need | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:47:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | DECATUR - Ten toddlers and their caregivers may have spent a lot of time using imaginary hammers and saws, but jingle bells on sticks also turned out to be useful tools for building skills.Jana Howe and her 2½-year-old daughter, Sophie, for example, paid close attention to how theirs sounded as they tapped them on their shoulders, each other's noses and just in front of their ears, then joined in singing a song about bells ringing, shaking, tapping, rolling and resting.The one-on-one exercise was part of a Kindermusik class the pair is taking at Baby TALK. It's their third."It has made her speech better," Howe said. "She talks better than most kids her age."Thus the class is one of many ways Baby TALK fulfills the mission it started out with 20 years ago to enhance child development and nurture parent-child relationships during the critical early years.... | |
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| | | Address kids' fears of school safety | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 6:47:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | Kira Kay of Marblehead fought back her fears and took her daughter to preschool yesterday. Then she kept an eye on the clock until it was time to pick her up. ``I could imagine it all," she said softly. ``Little girls being lined up. There's even a blackboard in her room. Not that it ever would happen," she adds in a rush. ``I know how remote the chances are." In the aftermath of deadly shootings in less than a week at schools in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Wisconsin, what parent doesn't have heightened anxieties about children's safety? How we handle those fears is critical. Psychologists say our reactions can frighten children more than the event itself. And, they add, there's no instinct more important to fight than the one to keep your children home, unless there are specific threats.... | |
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| | | Raising book-lovers starts with parents | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:47:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | There has been a growth in programs to increase reading. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a program to encourage reading at home. Libraries have always emphasized reading. Radio shows are plugging reading programs. A recent study showed that when adults have books at home, the more literate the household becomes. It is being suggested that pediatricians ask mothers during office visits, "How many books do you have at home?" as part of an effort to increase reading. Certainly, reading is important. But why all the effort to increase reading? Some troubling statistics answer the question. Today, many college graduates in America cannot read and write well. Many high school graduates fail reading and writing. Americans, in general, are reading less. Book sales nationally have decreased.... | |
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| | | Two books on the top of homework | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:48:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Do American schoolkids need to buckle down or loosen up? It's an old debate in education circles, argued and reargued over everything from how children should learn math to how often if ever they ought to take standardized tests. Now, just in time for the back-to-school season, several writers emphatically rooted in the progressive camp are joining the fray with an assault on what they see as a growing menace to young minds: homework. Through tales of marred childhoods and family strife, sober research reviews and inspirational accounts of parents who have fought back against uptight educrats, they aim to demolish the notion that any good might come of asking students to take assignments home after the school bell rings. .... | |
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| | | Joys of puppy parenting outweigh disruptions, exhaustion | | Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:48:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | I am sleep-deprived. My neck hurts from always looking down. I haven't read the newspaper all the way through in a month. The kitchen and living-room floors are covered in chew toys and shredded paper. And though we're working hard to prevent it, I suspect the house smells a little gamy. This raising a puppy is not for sissies. .... | |
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| | | Vikas Swarup scoops 2006 Boeke Prize with his 'unputdownable' ... | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 4:48:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Diplomat and author, Vikas Swarup, was tonight named as the winner of Exclusive Books' 2006 Boeke Prize for his 'unputdownable' novel, Q&A, published by Random House. The book was also the favourite choice of thousands of Fanatics members who voted for it in an in-store competition. It is the ninth debut novel to scoop the Boeke Prize, following last year's The Time Traveler's Wife and the previous year's joint award to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and The Kite Runner. The prize, for the best page-turner and most compelling fiction of the year, was started 12 years ago as a tongue-in-cheek take on the more staid Man Booker Prize. Described as a beguiling blend of high comedy and touching melancholy, Q&A is the poignant story of how a penniless waiter from Mumbai became the biggest quiz-show winner in history.... | |
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