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| This is a big step in your life – some would say the biggest. Your emotional and psychological well-being is just as important as your physical health. These articles and resources will help you make the transition to new parent. Even if you’ve done it before! |
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| Teaching Kids to Have Faith |
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| Parents have the ability to teach their sons and daughters to embrace the calmness and serenity of prayer, as well as the power of faith. And from that faith can come amazing results. ... more |
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| Building a Positive Body Image |
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| Eating disorders are just one damaging byproduct of body image issues among teenagers. Obesity, promiscuity and depression can also darken what should be happy high school years, all because teens don’t believe they measure up to standards of beauty set by the media, their peers and themselves.
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| Work=Guilt for Many Parents |
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| Tara Ziegmont loves her job as a high school science teacher. But for an entire year, the Etters resident cried nearly every day as she got ready for work. She couldn’t even truly enjoy weekends because she’d spend the time wallowing in the knowledge that she had to go back to work. ... more |
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| The Sick Day Shuffle |
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| It’s a morning scenario working parents dread. You wake up and so does your child – and he’s sick. “Anytime your child is sick it’s stressful,” says Minke Kooistra, an inside account manager at Staples and mother of Gavin, 5. “Knowing that things are stacking up at work makes it even more stressful.” ... more |
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| John and Kate Decision Makes Divorce a Hot Topic |
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| With the announcement that John and Kate Gosselin's divorce this week, the subjet has become a hot topic. Here, Sheila Vance offers five tips she hopes will help children dealing with divorce in their families.... more |
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| Dads & Their Little Girls: The Special Bond Between Fathers and Daughters |
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| For many dads, the connection they have with their daughter is special. A different relationship than that between father and son. Maybe dads are bit more protective of their daughters, and there’s probably a soft spot in their hearts for their girls. That could explain why do many women are still “daddy’s little girl” long after childhood.
The foundation of these relationships is formed early, and it strengthens as the years go by. In honor of Father’s Day, we celebrate the special connection between dads and daughters by looking at the lives of three Central Pennsylvania dads who are raising little girls. They come from different backgrounds, but each has a nurturing relationship with his children.
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| Helping kids cope with stress |
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| Compared with what adults face, it might seem like kids don’t have that much to stress about. But kids have their own concerns, and kids’ ... more |
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