Babylicious
Learning How to Raise a Happy, Confident and Successful Person

Part 1
The most important take home point I thought was that the parents who were most consistent in enforcing rules were the ones that were most warm and had the most conversations with their children – they “set a few rules on the key spheres of influence and explained why the rules were there.  They [...]

They say that you should avoid creating competition between your children in order to preserve the sibling relationship.  However, I have discovered that siblings can also be positive influences when you have a toddler with displaying challenging behaviours.
Whether this is all part and parcel of normal toddler development, or perhaps Gavin is just more disagreeable [...]

Although this chapter doesn’t really relate to me now, it was still a very interesting read.  It is also good preparation for me when my boys eventually become teenagers – although I often wish that they never grow up.  What can I say?  I’m enjoying them too much at this cute and adorable age.
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There is a common misconception that being an only child is in some way detrimental to that child’s social development.  The theory is that being an only child deprives that child of the many interactions he would otherwise have with a sibling which would go a long way towards fostering the development of his social [...]