Do you live under the dictatorship of a little child? Learn how to respond when your preschooler thinks she is the boss of you.

Bossiness is inherent to preschoolers. It kicks in, because their vocabulary is growing and they are just now in the process of breaking into the social world with little or no understanding about consideration and respect for other people’s opinions.  And of course, let’s not forget that they’ve been bossed around all their lives by their parents.  Telling people what to do, therefore, has been incorporated into their world view.  Being bossy is normal, natural, part of the way the world works.

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Turn the day around when your child insists there is nothing to do.

There are many reasons why children get bored. Boredom isn’t so much about “lacking something to do” as it is an inability to become engaged in any specific activity.

 Educational psychologists say children fail to engage in a particular activity when the child perceives the activity to be unchallenging, tedious, repetitive or meaningless.  

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The happy child is a healthy child.

Trauma and stress in early childhood can affect one’s health even after many years. The trauma and stress may already be resolved, but it could still result in weaker immunity in a child up to adolescence.

A study has revealed impaired immune function among teenagers who had experienced either physical abuse or had spent time in orphanages as youngsters. The report comes from the University of Wisconsin Madison and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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