Practical Parenting Solutions by Dr. Polly Dunn
Recently I was reading an article about how to keep your calendar updated, stay organized, and manage a household. Those are the types of ideas I’m always looking out for, so the article quickly caught my attention. There were tons of practical tips, but the whole time I was reading it I was thinking there was NO way I could make them work at my house. When I got to the end of the article, I ... read more
Have you ever wondered about the secrets that other moms were keeping? Thought, does this mom really have it as together as it seems? Questioned whether or not the way this mom acts in public is really the way she acts in the privacy of her own home? I know I have! Recently Parenting.com and Today.com released the results of their 26,000 mom strong survey revealing the hidden secrets that moms ... read more
Did you know that today is Family Day: A Day To Eat Dinner With Your Children? Family Day began in 2001 as a grassroots effort by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. Ten years later, Family Day is now a nationwide celebration. Why? Because research has consistently shown that children who are raised in families that eat dinner together regularly ... read more
Of course we all love our children, but let’s face it, they’re not perfect! They don’t always have good manners, throw more tantrums than we’d like to admit, and sometimes whine when they don’t get their way. Unfortunately, just trying to figure out how to improve their behavior can seem overwhelming with so many complicated theories and different opinions to choose from. And of course we all ... read more
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), children over the age of two should have their screen time limited to one to two hours per day. And kids under two should not have any screen time at all. That's a pretty tall order in today's society. Screen time used to just include the family television set in the den. Now families have video games, handheld electronics, computers, ... read more
