kids and teens

When you see the environment today, there is no doubt why a child grown up into a world of nightmares. Everyone must understand what is slowly happening in our generation right now. Let us take a look on the real situations in life and ask ourselves if it is normal for a child to bear those things below: 1. Children on the streets - feeling of rejection, hunger and thirst not just for money or food but for love 2. Prisons for Children - is this a normal thing for a child to bear? 3. Broken Families - pain and sufferings where the child started to rebel. These common cases affects not just a very little part of Kids and Teens lives but it affects their whole future. Those were just three but how can we protect them from other cases if we ourselves does not aware of it? Let's change their directions, let's help them to realize their worth. Be a part of their journey. Your part cannot be bought by money but can be an advantage to each children on the place where God puts you. Chil

Mandalas are geometric patterns starting from a central dot, working outward in repetitive patterns, often integrating symbols and vibrant colour. A circle within a circle is a universal pattern full of symbolic meaning. It is simple yet contains an element of the eternal. Mandalas remind us of our relation to the infinite world both beyond and within our bodies and minds. There are numerous ways to teach kids and teens about the beauty, complexity, universal nature and healing powers of mandalas. Three of which will be discussed here along with specific examples and applications. Explore Mandalas in Nature Mandalas are all around us. One simply has to walk through a garden to find beautiful flowers in bloom and appreciate their circular, repetitive patterns. Increasing awareness of the many manifestations of mandalas in nature can begin by examining an atom. Each cell is a mandala. On a grander scale the universe with the rotation of the planets around the sun or the shape of th

The Internet, what a wonderful invention! Could something as useful as the Internet be unsafe for our children? Lets consider the following scene. You are planning a trip vacation in a few days. You have everything ready. You are packed ready to go on your dream vacation. You leave your seventeen year old son Jason in charge of the house for that week. After all its just a week and you have left him enough money for food and all other expenses he might need while you are gone. You remind him that he is not to open the door to strangers and that no one is to enter the house who are not other family members or friends he knows well. How safe is your seventeen year old son? Safe or unsafe? You might think that your teenager is safe. You thought of everything he might need to survive on his own while you are on that one week dream vacation you have waited for so long. You left thinking you are the best parent in the world. You even reminded him that he is not to let stran

Raising great kids is not talk but work. Parenting or guarding young ones is one of the most difficult tasks on earth and truly it is one work we get little or no training but if it is done rightly, the rewards are fulfilling and long lasting. To raise better kids and teens, you must be intentional about it. Nothing works until your mind is in it. See raising kids and teens as a work that must be done properly if not the family and entire community will suffer the ugly consequences. Anything one learned during kidhood or teenage years sticks and can be difficult to unlearn. As one who is entrusted with the duty of raising these young ones, whether you are their biological parent or not, you should give this work your best. You should know that for anything to thrive, it requires time and care. As a higherlife coach, major part of my work involves helping people make a positive difference with their life and living, and I thought it necessary to write on this topic because children are

People these days are rapidly starting to get cell phones at an earlier an earlier age. Particularly Smart Phones. These cell phones go anywhere from the Apple iPhone to the Blackberry. Although, the question is which one is the best for your child or teen? The Blackberry was originally based as a business phone mostly for adults. With the Blackberry you get easy to retrieve e-mails, texts, and internet access. Plus their hit game Brick Breaker. Along with these features most of their models like the Blackberry Curve have a full accessible keyboard as for their one model the Blackberry Pearl and the Blackberry Pearl Flip come with a half keyboard with around two letters per key. Although, don't get this wrong the Blackberry Pearl's keyboard does have a feature where it tries to predict what you are going to type and works very effectively and mostly helps you type fast with the smaller size phone. The Blackberry also includes a camera with a very nice zoom option. Along wit

Some kids worry much more than their peers about their grades, boyfriends, their looks and their popularity. If you are an over- anxious parent, the chances that you have such a kid are increased. If you, as a parent, communicate to them your own nervousness and preoccupation about their performance frequently then the odds are increased that, even if they were originally quite normal and sanguine, they will become nervous, short-fused and abnormally worried. Kids and teens raised in a functional, healthy family environment are much more likely to view their world in a much more normal, realistic way and not experience oppressive forms of anxiety. However, abnormally anxious kids manifest perfectionist traits, including omnipresent self-doubt, that will require you to provide excessive amounts of reassurance to soothe them. Of course, not all manifestations of anxiety are abnormal; most are in fact, normal and these children usually grow out of their anxiety. However, it is impo