Parenting4Tomorrow

Following are child development articles written by Diana Converse, Family Life Educator for the University of Florida Extension Service in Hillsborough County (Tampa).  Diana has these articles on her blog that is called "Parenting4Tomorrow."

        July 2010 Blog

• Power Struggles and Choices
  
• Parental Depression
  
• Responding to Children's Fears
  
• Family Meal Time
  
• Debates Over Spanking
  
• Nurturing Mothers
  
• Child Care Safety
  
• Children's Bad Habits
  
• Teen's Developmental Tasks
  
• Being a Nurturing Parent
  
• Facts on Children's Lying
  
• Getting Along With Your Teenager
  
• Talking to Children about Failure
  
• Teens Do Hear Prevention Messages
  
• What Middle School Kids Want to Talk About
  
• Teaching Children About Money
  
• Reading to Children
  
  August 2010 Blog
  
Homework
• US Math Scores Not Keeping Up Globally
• Getting Ready for Elementary School
• Channeling Your child's Creativity
• Hey Daddy - Read to Me!
• Divorce and Children
• Avoiding Food Fights
• The Cost of Raising a Young Adult
• Parental Monitoring Redefined
• Arguing in Front of children
• Five Ways to Show Love to a Child
• Talking With Your Baby
  
  September 2010 Blog
  
• Children and Chores
• Grandparent Care
• Dealing With Toddler Temper Tantrums
• School Drop Outs
• Teens, Drugs and Family Dinners
• Reframing YourToddler's Annoying Behaviors
• When Your Child Doesn't Want to Go to School
• Accessing Your Child's Readiness for Self Care
  
  October 2010 Blog
  
• Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Children and Lying
• Children Using TV As a Guide for Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors
• Moral Development in the Classroom
• Test Anxiety
• Teens and Extra Curricular Activities
• Healthy School Lunches
• Developmental Tasks of Teens
• Helping Your Child Deal with Peer Pressure
• Outcomes of Bullying
• Childproofing Outdoor Areas
  
  November 2010 Blog
  
  
• Honey and Infants
• Setting Limits and Standing Firm
• Dieting Linked to Smoking Among Girls
• Harry Potter - Good for Reading
• Teenager's Internet Use
• The Protective Role of Grandparents
• Preventing Holiday Exhaustion
• Realistic Holiday Expectation
• Re-evaulating Your Holiday Traditions
• Teaching Teens About Money
• What Parents Can Do to Fit Their Child's Temperment
• Understanding Your Child's Temperament
• Breakfast and School Performance
• Sexualization of Girls -- What Parents Can Do
  
  December 2010 Blog
  
  
• The Importance of Play
• Parents Give Teens Alcohol
• Year-round Education
• Imperfect Holidays
• Teens Expect to Cohabit Before Marriage
• Managing the Holidays with Young Children
• Holiday Stress
• Holiday Safety at Grandma and Grandpa's House
• Dinner Table Conversation Starters
• Being with the In-laws at Holiday Time
• Resolution for the New Year
• Got Balance?
  
  January 2011 Blog
  
• Is Your Child an Underachiever in School?
• Grandparent Distress
• Step Siblings and Academic Outcomes
• Four-letter Words
• Reacting to Child's Swear Words
• Adolescents and Weight Loss Diets
• Long Distance Caregiving
• Second-hand Smoke
• Baby Sleep Safely
• Childhood Stress
• Social Roles and Women's Health
• Toilet Training
• Who's Watching the kids
  
  February 2011 Blog
  
• Toilet Training While Out with children
• Letting Natural ConsequencesTeach a Lesson
• Forgiveness in Marriage:  Is it Always a Good Thing?
• Single Mothers Are Teaching Boys to Do Housework
• Single Parenting and the Time Crunch
• Adults with Kids at Home Eat More Fat
• What Every Child Needs for Good Mental Health
• Baby's Intellectual Development
• Healthy Snacking for Children
• Impact of Divorce on Teens
• Immigrant Family Strengths
• Caregiving and Legal and Issues
  
  March 2011 Blog
  
• Teaching Kids How to Make and Keep Friends
• Pleasant Family Meals
• When to Introduce Solid Food to Baby
• There's Nothing to Do!
• Group Dating for Young People
• Each Day Is a New Account
• Talking with Your Toddler
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Teen's Developmental Tasks
• When to Get Help for Stress
• Keeping Baby Healthy
• How Do Cohabiting Couples with Children Spend Money
• Is TV Making Your Child Fat?
• Parenting Multi-racial Children
  
  April 2011 Blog
  
• Teenager Pregnancy:  Costs for Taxpayers
• Children and Pesticides
• Caregiver Stress
• Meal-time Battles and Diets
• Marriage and Family Therapy
• Raising Chronically Sick Children
• Bonding with Your Bottle-fed Baby
• Foster Parents
• Creative Questioning
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Time...Is on Our Side
• Tips to Get Your child to Try New Foods
  
  May 2011 Blog
  
• Helping Children Cope with Divorce
• Teens "Hooking Up"
• Table Manners
• Step-Grandparent Relationships
• Media Influence on Pre-teen Body Image
• Trends in Balancing Work and Family
• Learning to Parent
• Helping Your Child Deal with Peer Pressure
• Defining Family by Children's Living Arrangements
• Sibling Rivalry:  What's a Parent to Do?
• Your Teen Wants to Date
• Dealing with Toddler Temper Tantrums
• Keeping Teens out of Summer Trouble
  
  June 2011 Blog
  
• Family Emergency Plans
• The Reading Gap Between Boys and Girls
• Teen Birth Rates
• Money Needs and the family Life Cycle
• Swallowing Problems and Older Adults
• Co-parenting and Father Involvement
• Kids' Big Worries
• Bedwetting
• Step-grand-parenting
• R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
  
  July 2011 Blog
  
• Disaster Planning for the Elderly
• The Wonderful World of Toddlers
• 7 Principles of Discipline
• Middle Childhood Development
• Cyberbullying
• Children and Allowances
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
  
  August 2011 Blog
• Planning Healthy Family Meals
• Time Management for Today's Kids
• Women and Diabetes
• Children's Fears
• Ways to Keep Your Teen Safe
• Retirement and Family Life
• School Bus Safety
• TV and Very Young Children
• Reading to Children for Better School Performance
• Navigating Your Parents' Finances
  
  September 2011 Blog
• Attachment:  A Lifelong Commitment
• Peer Pressures and Riskly Behaviors
• Winning Isn't Everything
• Handling Divorce Emotionally
• Can You Spoil a Baby?
• Resolving Family Conflicts Before They Grow
• Growth Charts
• Helping Your child Make Friends
  
  October 2011 Blog
• Three Rules About How Babies Grow
• Suggestions for Stepfamilies
• Playing Your Child
• Older Adults and Physical Activity
• Double Day Work:  How Women Cope with Time Demands
• Guidelines for Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems
• Grandmothers as Parents
• It's More than Hormones
  
  November 2011 Blog
• Negative Discipline Is Harmful
• Examine Attitutudes About Your Teen's Sports Participation
• Teething -- Baby's First Tooth
• Teenagers Are the Greatest!
• Ten Reasons to Read Aloud to Your Children
• Vacation - A Learning Experience
• Holidays:  Family History or Family Hassle?
• Thanksgiving Day
• Helping Children Learn About Expectations
• Self-centered Children
  
  December 2011 Blog
• Holiday Gifts When Parents Are Divorced
• Holiday Gifts for Kids Don't Require Big Spending
• Dealing with Deployment of Family Member
• From What Do Children Learn Most
• New Evidence in Adolescent Risk Taking
• The End of the Day
• Staying Connected When Away from Your Children
• Family Anxiety and the Economy
  
  January  2012 Blog
• Children's Health Impact on Family
• Parent's Spending Money on Teens
• Parents' Negative Styles of Communicating
• Reasons for Needing to Connect and Communicate
• New Moms:  Take Care of Yourself
• Ways to Get Your Kids to Listen
• Kids Appreciate Helicopter Parents
• "I'll Pencil You In" - The Overscheduled Child
  
  February 2012 Blog
  
• The American Family Strengths Inventory
• Ten Things Kids Can Do in Tough Times
• The Role of Music in Building Baby's Brain
• Recognizing Risky Behavior or Problems Before They...
• Establishing New Routines After a Family Separation
• Parenting Question #1
  
  
  
  
  
  
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