Well-known psychologist and author Oliver James states in the preface of his book ‘Not in your Genes’ that the latest evidence from the Human Genome Project is proving that psychological traits that run in families is not genetic. No human being is perfect and all our...
We need to understand that everything a child does is a choice, but the problem is, what are the consequences of these choices? One of the main ideas of the SmartChoiceParenting programme is that parents should encourage and allow their child to make choices, but they...
To curb your child’s impulsive behaviour you need to focus on the small things. Here are 10 tips which are easy to implement and have good outcomes: 1. The majority of kids today don’t have manners. Manners slow a child down. As an example, instead of taking your...
Myth 1: Some kids are born impulsive and others are not. All kids are born impulsive and from the moment they become aware of the world around them, what they want they take, or have attention if they don’t get the own way. A child is born subjective, in other words...
What happens when a child is too dependent on the parent, or an adult to help them with many things? In all my years of assessing and dealing with families who had children that were not doing well at school, or had been diagnosed with some or other disorder, I noted...
Here are the reasons:- Many parents with impulsive kids believe that some kids are born impulsive and others aren’t. What all parents need to know is that every human child is born self-centred and impulsive? From the moment a tiny tot becomes aware of the world...