Momma Stuff

Yes, it truly does. To illustrate: A startled interviewer asked a five-year-old girl, “Why do you want to be dead?” The sad-eyed tot replied: “Because it would be so peaceful. Mommy wouldn’t be screaming at me all the time.” Children have feelings. A parent’s thoughtless remarks can be devastating. A proverb states: “There exists the [...]

It is not easy. However, the Bible stresses “fellow feeling.” (1 Pet. 3:8) There may often be underlying reasons for a child’s misbehavior. For instance, one youngster began acting up in school. His concerned father, who talked for hours with the boy, said: “We continued to show him that we cared about him. Then he [...]

“Loving is not enough,” warns Dr. Arnon Bentovim, an authority on child care. “The child must have discipline and be offered guidelines which build up security.” Some single parents try to make up to the child for the loss of a parent by being overly permissive. Often it is not easy for a mother to [...]

Statistics from the United States show that the average sixth-grade student watches four hours of television per day—and that does not even include the time he spends playing games while staring at a computer or a TV screen. In a 1995 survey, more than 60 percent of the children admitted that they often played longer than [...]

How can you encourage your children to be responsible? A married couple named Jack and Nora recalled regarding their daughter: “When she could barely walk, she learned to carry socks or small things to her bedroom and put them in the proper drawer. She also learned to put toys and books away in their places.” [...]

Some parents may feel that they have more important things to do on evenings when schools schedule special occasions for parents to interact with teachers. Yet, really, what is more important than making yourself available to those who are trying to help your children get a good education? Good parent-teacher cooperation is vital! In Russia [...]

A small boy is excited, waiting impatiently for Saturday to come. His father is taking him to the zoo! All week long he has lived the day in his mind—he’s watched the seals streak through the water, he’s dropped peanuts into the trunks of the huge elephants towering above him, he’s thrilled to the roars [...]

“A new culture of giving in” to children has been noted among parents, says Udo Beckmann, chairman of a German teachers’ union. According to the newspaper Südwest Presse, Beckmann said that more and more children were being badly spoiled and, as a result, were not willing to exert themselves in school. “He stated that it [...]

Battered Parents. So sad… It has been well established that millions of children around the world are severely beaten and otherwise abused by parents. Not so well known is the fact that parents are often beaten, and sometimes viciously, by their children, mostly adolescents or young adults. In the United States it is estimated that [...]

It is interesting to note what young people say when there are group discussions of their problems in communicating with their parents. One teen-age girl revealed: “My sister’s the type that is always volunteering to help. Honestly—she likes housework. Then my mother says to me, ‘Look how much your sister does. Why can’t you be [...]