Unexplained Infertility – What Can You Do Now? (No Comments)

So you have been diagnosed with “unexplained” infertility. What happens now? Infertility in itself is hard to bear but having been through all the tests and still to have no answers is even worse. But there is still hope.

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The Importance of Rate of Speech When Parenting Your Child (No Comments)

Rate of speech is defined as how fast or how slowly a person speaks to another. Rate of speech can non-verbally communicate either in-depth knowledge, or pure uncertainty about any subject matter. It can also non-verbally communicate the patience or impatience the speaker has with the person listening.

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How Long to Get Pregnant? – A Father’s Perspective (No Comments)

Planning a child would be hard at the best of times, not planning a child can be harder, but when it just isn’t working; what do you do? A lot of emphasis is placed on timing and planning that critical moment when ovulation is taking place. For the father to be you are like a clock, then it’s by the alarm clock.

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Five Pacifier Weaning Tips For Busy Moms (No Comments)

Follow these 5 simple steps to reduce the stress and tears while pacifier weaning. Ask any mom and you’ll find out how difficult it can be to wean your children from their beloved binky.

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How to Know If You Are Pregnant (No Comments)

If you have regular cycles first thing that you will notice is you will loose your period cycles. Self pregnancy test instruments are available in all the medical stores. Follow the procedure given on the cover. If you see 1 line on that, then it is negative, if you see two lines on that, then congrats you have conceived.

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More Tips on Active Listening Skills to Use When Listening to Your Child or Teen (No Comments)

The purpose of this article is to give some more useful tips on how to actively listen to you child when he or she is telling you a story or venting a frustration. With these 3 tips in mind you will be able to reconnect with your child in ways you never have before.

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Are Disposable Potty Training Pants a Good Idea? (No Comments)

Disposable nappies really liberated babies and toddlers from the cumbersome bulky and discomfort of the terry nappy. They brought greatly absorbent nappies, and made mothers lives a whole lot easier.

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The Importance of Looking at Your Child’s Facial Expressions When Parenting (No Comments)

Just like eye contact, facial expressions are very powerful way to communicate non-verbally! In fact, even if your child is not making eye contact with you during the moment, you still have the ability to be “in-tune” with him or her by looking at the child’s facial expressions.

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The Importance of Body Distance When Parenting Your Child (No Comments)

Let us examine the powerful ways we send messages to one another (and our children) through our Body Distance…Body distance is the last tool to examine in non-verbal communication. Simply put, body distance is used to take over someone’s personal space, or give someone personal space. When we are really close to someone physically it communicates care, concern, seriousness, or someone’s safety is in jeopardy. When we are far away from someone physically, it communicates less care, less concern, relaxation, and freedom is permitted.

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Relaxation Breathing – For a Better Night Sleep (No Comments)

First of all I am not a nurse or doctor. I am a former nanny with a B.A. in Sociology. This breathing exercise is meant to help settle children down from a hectic day so they can peacefully go to sleep.

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