Dealing With Being a Tween If your daughter is just beginning her tween years, or if she’s having trouble making it through these volatile years, fear not. There are tips you can pass on to help her adjust and thrive so that by the time she enters high school, she’ll be well on her way to becoming the young woman you knew she’d become. Puberty Is Normal Puberty is natural (but a bit of a pain!...
A list of references, with contact information The 21 badges and dates earned Leadership positions A list of all the required documents Signatures of approval from the applicant, his scoutmaster, unit committee chair, council official, Eagle board of review; and scout executive Academic history: Schools attended and school activities, including leadershipReligious record: Church or temple membership or a “no affiliation” statementExtracurricular activities: Athletics, music, etc.Scouting record: A listing of Cub Scout and Boy Scout involvement, including years, leadership positions, awards, community service projects, Camporee involvement, summer camp, and any High Adventure trek participation....
All these expenses are in addition to the cost of gifts given throughout the year, be they birthday, surprise, or holiday-related presents. Though not essential, gift-giving is an ingrained cultural act and a way to demonstrate and celebrate our love, care, and affection for others. These don’t have to be extravagant purchases, but usually, there’s some dollar cost associated with them. Should you be part of a large family with numerous children, gifts suddenly feel more like a burden than the joy they’re meant to be....
More: Everything You Need to Start Homeschooling According to a Former Elementary School Teacher As with most things, giving purpose, shape, and organization to your day will help you and your children feel more comfortable with homeschooling, which can feel very loose until you choose to define it in certain ways. Remember, education was not made to be one size fits all, so there are several things to consider before you build a homeschool schedule....
If you’re feeling like your kids are out of control, take steps to regain your power. Maintaining your authority is important to your child’s well-being—and it’s important for your own emotional health too. Establish Rules and Structure Believe it or not, kids like rules and limits. Kids feel safe when they trust that their parents are good leaders who can set and enforce rules. If you struggle to get your kids to listen, these strategies can help....
It’s well known that fertility treatments like Clomid (clomiphene), Gonal-F (follitropin alfa), and Follistim (follitropin beta) make it more likely you’ll conceive multiples. But other factors like your height, age, diet, and family history can also increase (or decrease) your risk of conceiving more than one baby at a time. Learn more about what increases the likelihood of having twins. How Common Are Twins? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) birth statistics, there were 120,291 infants born in twin deliveries in the United States in 2019....
The products recalled were Walgreens Pain Reliever Acetaminophen (150 count bottles), Kroger Aspirin (300 count bottles), Kroger Ibuprofen (160 count bottles), and Kroger Arthritis Pain Acetaminophen (225 count bottles). These products are required to have child-resistant packaging because of the risk of poisoning. Child-resistant packaging is one of several ways we can keep our children from accessing medicine. But, it’s not enough on its own. Manufacturers can slip up, as we see in these recalls....
Even when there are bus services or other transportation options, managing the family schedule can still feel like a part-time job. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to keep the schedules straight and ensure everyone gets to where they need to be on time. Set a Limit on How Many Activities the Kids Do It’s OK to set a limit on how many activities your kids do every year....
The technology for electronic fetal monitoring arrived in the 1960s and 1970s but had to undergo reliability testing before hospitals and clinics started to use it. Electronic fetal monitors provided a graph (on a paper printout at first, and later, on a computer screen) that showed how a fetus’s heart rate responded to contractions. An advantage of electronic monitoring over the fetoscope method was that it could be done without requiring the provider to be at the patient’s bedside....
Help Your Child Avoid Bullying Start by educating your child on how to stop bullying in its tracks. Make direct eye contact with the bully and use a calm but firm tone of voice to tell them to stop. If joking comes easy, try humor to shift the energy of the moment. Don’t try to fight the bully. Instead, walk away if possible and find an adult to get help. Tell parents or a trustworthy adult about the situation so they can help create a plan to stop it....
If you’re feeling stuck on how to teach your kid to tell time, take a deep breath. Learning to read a clock is a step-by-step process that starts with simply building an understanding of what time actually is. Then, it slowly but surely builds to the ablility to read the time to the minute. When Should I Start Teaching My Child to Tell Time? Sometime during first grade when your child is about 6 or 7, you can start teaching them to read an analog clock....
How Identical Triplets Happen While many people are familiar with the terms “identical” and “fraternal” in describing multiples and use them to describe whether twins or triplets look similar, what these terms actually refer to is how the multiples formed in utero. Monozygotic or identical multiples form from the same egg. In the case of identical twins, the fertilized egg splits in two. In the case of identical triplets, the egg may split just once into three or it may split twice (where the egg splits first in two and then one of the two splits again), resulting in three embryos with the same general DNA characteristics....
With the tips and examples that follow, get a better understanding of identity achievement and how you can support your children or the young people in your life as they set out on the path of this transformative process. What Psychologists Say About Identity Achievement Psychologists believe that identity achievement can only occur after a person has actively explored a wide variety of options available to him. In other words, a person must undergo an identity crisis (or identity moratorium) in order to reach identity achievement....
But they’re also a natural breeding ground for conflict. After all, the basic premise of so many sports is “me vs. you” or “us vs. them,” so it’s not totally surprising when tempers occasionally boil over on the playing field. Most of us have seen something like this happen during professional sporting events, where it’s not uncommon to see spats erupt between players—or even fans. Hockey, basketball and baseball are just a few sports where you—and your child—may see voices raised and fists flying....
Freeze foods at peak quality; they will taste better than foods frozen after several days of refrigeration. Immediately freeze foods you don’t plan to use within 1 to 2 days. Slightly undercook prepared foods; they will finish cooking when reheated. Most casseroles can be prepared and refrigerated up to 24 hours in advance. Add 15 to 20 minutes to cooking time if casseroles are chilled. To test egg freshness: Immerse egg into a pan of salted, cool water....
