The Importance of Making Mistakes
So often, as parents, we try to prevent our kids from making mistakes. We issue warnings, reach out to help, or just do a job ourselves because we don’t want the hassle of fixing a mistake like a spill, fall, or ill-thought decision. But making mistakes is valuable and necessary for a child’s learning and development of self-confidence. How we handle mistakes can teach children that challenges are either threats to be avoided, or that they can be opportunities to learn and develop strong mastery skills. American parenting educator Kelly Bartlett explains on The Attached Family online magazine at http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2766
State of the World’s Mothers: More Qualified Health Care Workers Needed Worldwide
For women in our culture, pregnancy and childbirth represent a joyous time: enjoying a growing belly, fantasizing about how the baby will look, shopping for tiny layettes, and taking prenatal yoga classes. But for many women in developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth are risky and sometimes fatal for both mother and newborn. Pregnancy & Birth Editor Kathleen Mitchell-Askar continues this The Attached Family online magazine article at http://theattachedfamily.com/membersonly/?p=2762
OTHER FEATURE ARTICLES:
The Use — and Abuse — of Attachment Research in Family Courts by American psychologist Peter Haiman
Spotlight On: Balboa Baby
Embracing Positive Discipline’s Challenges, Routines for Preschoolers, and The “See One, Teach One, Do One” Approach to Teaching by American parenting educator Kelly Bartlett
Teens and Sex from an Attachment Perspective by Israeli parenting educator Shoshana Hayman
Respectful Potty Training, When Daddy Goes Away, and What to Do When Children Demean Each Other by American parenting educator Naomi Aldort
How to Respond to the Most Frustrating Phrases Kids Say and Why It’s Important to Help Children Make Friends by editor Rita Brhel
The 3rd Step in Responding with Sensitivity by American parenting educator Dottie Stone Coleman
Healing Birth, The Second Time Around by American mother Heather Spergel
The Delicate Balance of Parenthood by American child development specialist Megan Kunze
