5 Steps To Nurture Emotional Intelligence in Your Child

5 Steps To Nurture Emotional Intelligence in Your Child So you want to raise an emotionally intelligent child and and you're wondering where to begin? Start with these five steps. 1. Acknowledge your child’s perspective and empathize. Even if you can't "do anything" about your child's upsets, empathize. Just being understood helps humans let go of troubling emotions. If your child's upset seems out of proportion to the situation, remember...

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Seven super foods to help boost your child's brain power

Seven super foods to help boost your child's brain power by ANNABEL KARMEL, femail.co.uk Eating certain foods during the day can help boost your child's brain power. Bananas and dried fruit provide good 'fuel' to your child's brain for example, and breakfast cereal provides an excellent start to the day and will help sustain your child's energy throughout the morning. Here, we look at seven superfoods to boost your child's brain power BREAKFAST...

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Your Newborn: 30 Tips for the First 30 Days

Your Newborn: 30 Tips for the First 30 Days Parent-to-parent advice on feeding, soothing, and more during baby's first days at home. By Heather Swain from   Breastfeeding It's been six weeks since our daughter, Clementine, was born. She's finally sleeping better and going longer between feedings. She's also becoming more alert when she's awake. My husband and I, on the other hand, feel like we've been hit by a truck. I'm amazed...

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Healthy Meal Planner: How Much Does My Kid Need to Eat?

How Much Does My Kid Need to Eat? Use this age-by-age guide to find out the amount of food your child should be eating -- and how to create healthy habits for a lifetime. By Sally Kuzemchak, R.D. from Parents Magazine From Day 1, we worry about our kids getting enough to eat -- yet with the childhood obesity rate at 17 percent, we also fret that they'll get too much. What's the right amount? To cut through the confusion, nutrition experts...

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Pregnancy and baby

Baby and toddler meal ideas If you need some inspiration to help you cook healthy and tasty food for your kids, try these meal ideas.  They're not suitable as first foods, but fine once your baby is used to eating a wide range of solid foods. When preparing food for babies, don’t add salt, sugar or stock cubes directly to the food, or to the cooking water. Breakfast ideas for babies and children Unsweetened porridge or cereal mixed...

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8 Signs of a Healthy Baby

6 Reasons to Stop Worrying About Baby's Development Even if you fear you don't know the first thing about newborns, after a few weeks with your own little darling, you start to hear a difference between his hungry and tired cries. You know how he prefers to be rocked and burped. You grow more confident about your parenting skills. If it weren't for the exhaustion and the hormonal overload, you'd feel like you have everything under control....

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Zika virus: The symptoms and what travellers and pregnant women need to know

A pregnant woman waits to be attended at the Maternal and Children's Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras AFP PHOTO/Orlando SIERRAORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images The Zika virus is becoming a growing public health concern in the Americas, prompting officials to advise pregnant...

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