If you feel that your child is spending too much time playing video games or chatting with friends on the net, and your attempts to limit the child’s screen time fail, you may consider using a strategy based on Kids’Skills. …
No matter how hard parents try to protect their children from having dreadful experiences, it is the nature of life, that almost all children go through such experiences anyway. Common dreadful experiences that children can experience include accidents and natural …
In many families with more than one child, quarrels, arguments or fights between the children in the family are common. This is often called sibling rivalry, because the assumption is that these disputes are caused by jealousy or envy. This …
At an early age, children realise that touching or rubbing their genital area feels good. Some pick up the habit of doing this in public. Boys may touch their penises and girls may find different ways of rubbing themselves against …
The best way of preventing children from bullying each other is to help them develop skills that promote friendship, collaboration and caring for others. Two such skills – apologising and defending - are particularly relevant when bullying is occurring. Apologising …
Perfectionism Perfectionism means that the child strives to be perfect and cannot tolerate not succeeding in what they do. As a result of their perfectionism, the child becomes easily frustrated, anxious or angry when they fail to live up to …