A father, someone to look up to, or someone to leave behind?

Everyone has their own ide in mind about a father. One’s thought might be different to another.

What about you? Has your father been there to watch you on your first school drama show? Has he been there to take care of you while you didn’t feel well? Has he made you a gorgeous tree house on the backyard?

Or, he was never there for you?

Father Day is coming. It’s time for you to remember every single thing about your father. The ups and downs of your father-child relationship. The happy and sad moments you both shared.

To the remembrance of a father, we, at InsParenting.com, pose some questions as you can see below to help you look deep into your heart. Just answer them before you come to him and express all your feelings…

1. What is a father to you?
2. What makes you love him so much? Or…
3. What makes you hate him?
4. Do you wish him to change? What are the changes? And, why?
5. Do you have something to say to him that you’ve been wishing to tell but couldn’t? What’s that?

Those questions are all yours to dwell on and respond to.

How?

Simply leave your comment below…now!

Well, that never occurred to my mind before, that the perfect smart girl like Hermione might contribute the increase in violence among girls.

However, Professor James Garbarino thinks the contrary. He said that girls who traditionally had been taught to suppress their violent tendencies now are getting mixed messages about their behaviour for watching super girl characters like Hermione, Buffy and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

He also mentioned that rates for girls arrested for attacks were rising.

Professor Garbarino is a renowned psychologist who wrote books on violence and trauma on child development. His two famous books are Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them and See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What Can Be Done about It.

When I first looked at the cover, I fell in love with this book. The color is so attractive and girly.

I bought it as a gift for my 14 year-old niece for her birthday. I try to always give books as gifts.

My niece seems to like not only the cover but also the story. She told me that she liked Stargirl and Leo–the boy who falls for Stargirl. She said that Stargirl was a very attractive unusual girl.

“You know, what…she plays ukulele and sang happy birthday to everyone on their birthday,” said my niece with excitement.

So I borrowed the book from her to check out what’s so special about this girl, Stargirl a.k.a Susan.

She is special. She wears long skirts. She has a pet rat named Cinamon. She doesn’t wear makeup. She’s different.

But, even if she’s nothing alike to other ‘normal’ girls, she’s still enjoying her life at her new high school, Mica High School–after 15 years of homeschooling. That’s what I like so much about this book.
The message that the writer, Jerry Spinelli, is trying to send throught this novel is the encouragement to be unique despite the pressures at high school. Be yourself and somehow you’ll fit in.

It’s a good book for your teens at home, especially for those who feel different from others.

• Grow something together
• Let your child say grace on tonight’s dinner time
• Take your child on a hayride
• Teach your child a secret code
• Watch returns of your favourite childhood TV series with your child for it gives you two a sense of change and a basis for comparison
• Let your children invent their own pizzas using whatever toppings they choose

Have a nice weekend!

It’s true that natural infection almost always causes better immunity than vactination. However, only Hib, pnemococcal, and tetanus vaccines that are better at stirring immunity up than natural infection.

Then again, the price paid for vaccination–the inconvenience of shots and sore arm–is nothing compared to that for natural infection:

• paralysis from natural polio infection
• mental retardation from natural Hib infection
• liver failure from natural hepatitis B virus infection
• deafness from natural mumps infection
• pneumonia from natural varicella

So, what’s the waiting for? Chech out your baby’s immunization schedule now!

As the First Lady of California, Maria Shriver can be categorized as an extraordinary person.

Does what she achieves in life have anything to do with her being the daughter of such wonderful parents?

According to what she said to Oprah and Lesley Stahl about her family, her parents play a big role in what she becomes.

Maria and her four brothers were raised that they can make a difference, and that they must make a difference in their life, whether it’s volunteering in an existing program, or starting their own.

While sitting down at dinner, the parents asked them, “What have you done? What are you gonna do?”

They were conditioned to make their life meaningful to the world.

Let me ask you, have you been doing the same?

Put your children in a condition where they believe that they can make a change, a better one?

It’s good that you do.

But, let me also suggest you something.

Before pushing them into being someone extraordinary, start with yourself. You’re their role model.

Just like what Maria’s parents have done. Well, no need to be politically active. Start with simple things in your surrounding.

There’s another thing. Observe your children’s characteristics. Are they the kind of persons that can accept such driving force?

If you think they can’t, find another way to encourage your children.

However, nothing is impossible. Let’s change the world by raising wonderful children!