Raising smart, healthy and happy kids

Raising Kids for Heights of Success: Four Must-Have Skills to Teach Your Kids Now

2011-11-06T05:51:00.000-08:00

Raising Smart Kids – Four Must-Have Skills to Teach Your Kids If you are starting to read this article you are most likely a parent - a concerned and an involved parent at that. Another brilliant observation one would make is that you are looking for the secret recipe to raising a smart, genius and a highly skilled super-child - the recipe that parents of Tiger Woods and Mark Zuckerberg of

Food for Thought ... And Body

2010-12-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

We talked about nurturing healthy eating habits in kids in one of my earlier blog articles. Today let's focus on diets that target development of specific physical attributes and functions. Food for brainA healthy diet is absolutely essential along with mental exercises and games in order for kids to develop strong cognitive abilities. Essential Fatty Acids and antioxidants are the key

And You Thought Keeping Kids Safe Was Simple - Well You Were Half Right

2010-09-20T20:04:00.000-07:00

Article first published on Technorati Safety First – it’s a common phrase but we ignore it all the time. You sit in the plane and ignore all the safety instructions from the air hostess - don't we all? It’s complacency, the enemy of safety. The best way to make people safe is to teach safety habits when they are young. Once something becomes a habit or a second nature, you don’t have to worry

Fast Thinking Creative Kids

2010-08-15T21:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not a big fan of putting kids in one of those Bee contests - Spelling Bee, Geography Bee etc. unless ofcourse they themselevs enjoy doing so. Don't get me wrong - preparing for all these contests does help but does it guarantee future success? I think not. One thing that we know DOES get close to being a sure shot way to success is having a sharp and creative mind. I've talked a lot about

Anger Management Tips for Parents and Kids

2010-06-27T12:50:00.000-07:00

Article first published as Anger Management Tips for Parents and Kids on Technorati. Anger brings out the rawest of human emotions in us. Kids are no different. Kids get frustrated and angry as we do. Anger is generally an “uncontrolled” emotional reaction . Well, can it be made “controlled” and productive reaction? This is the theme of one of the recent articles on anger management published on

Passion Has to be Found, Not Enforced

2010-03-29T20:13:00.000-07:00

Tiger Woods began as a golf prodigy at the age of three when he won a putting contest against Bob Hope on TV. Pete Sampras began tennis when he was also three. Bill Gates wrote his first computer program when he was in the eighth grade. What did they have in common (besides, of course, being highly successful in their fields)? Passion from an early age. Parents are always looking for passion in

Healthy Eating Habits in Kids - Get'em Started Early

2010-02-18T20:21:00.000-08:00

The "First Mom," Michelle Obama, kicked off a national effort to address childhood obesity. What a great cause to support, but why did it come down to having someone like the First Lady put her weight behind it (no pun intended) to address this alarming situation? CDC statistiscs on childhood obesity show that the number of obese kids has grown almost threefold, to about 17%. Although alarming,

Over-parenting does not help make your kids smart, healthy or happy

2010-01-11T21:02:00.000-08:00

Finally we have the main stream media, specifically The Time magazine, writing about parents going berserk over their kids or over-parenting. Believe me, I'm probably one of these "helicopter parents" when it comes to kids' safety but that's where my "extreme" nature stops. C'mon folks go back 20-30 years ago when you were a little kid and recall how you used to play and run around with your

Training kids to think strategically and out-of-the-box

2009-11-15T20:11:00.000-08:00

In one of my first articles - Raising kids to be mentally smart and sharp - I wrote about three critical mental abilities areas that you must focus on: Memory, Strategic/Out-of-the-box thinking and fast information processing. I've already talked about Memory in one of my previous blogs - hope your memory is good and still remember reading my blog. Today I'll focus on Strategic and out-of-the

Want your child to be happy and healthy? Become happy and healthy parent first

2009-10-25T19:37:00.000-07:00

The world smiles when you smile but it doesn't really cry with you - this is generally true for the world but does not completely apply to your kids. Your kids do show signs of stress if you are in the dumps. Good or bad - the mood does rub-off on people around you - including your kids. Your son or daughter will learn to behave the way you do - overtime. We all behave in ways we shoudn't in

Good memory - key to being smart

2009-09-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

Some time ago I had written about three skills (see Raising kids to be mentally sharp and smart) that are most critical in my opinion for a child to achieve success as an adult. We'll talk about the most important of the three skills today - MEMORY. Memory is the most important but probbaly the easiest of the three skills to master. It's no different than training a muscle - the more you exercise

H1N1 or Swine flu - facts for parents

2009-09-07T20:23:00.000-07:00

Folks, it's that time of the year - yes !!! kids are going back to school and parents get to have some relief from that hourly dose of "Dad Mom I'm bored, what do I do now." Well the problem is, this time around parents are not getting that much mental relief - H1N1 or Swine flu is on everyone's mind. Since one of the key goals of this blog is to provide parents information and tools to keep

Top 10 Items to have at home for sick or a hurt kid

2009-06-23T20:39:00.000-07:00

Here I was thinking where do I start? What is that one thing that a father is not aware of? What really would help him through the initial learning experiences of a newborn or growing up child. A colleague of mine walked up to me wanting to discuss how his 1 year old son was falling all over the place hurting himself. Even though he ended up hesitatingly hiding away most of the expensive

Are kids that watch TV smarter compared to ones that don't?

2009-06-16T20:29:00.000-07:00

My answer is a big YES. Let me explain.I had a friend who loved to grow vines around his house. So one day, at the entrance of his house he decided to grow two vines, one on each side of the entrance. His plan was to train one of the vines and let the other decide its destiny. So both got fertilized and irrigated in exactly the same way. The only difference being, one was being shown the path,

Raising kids to be mentally sharp and smart

2009-06-11T20:18:00.000-07:00

Most of us grew up thinking that if you are good in school, are getting A-grades and are on top of your class it's pretty much guaranteed that you'd be successful when you grow up and make lots of money. In my own personal experience, it's true that you should encourage your kids from the very beginning (yes I'm talking pre-K) to learn age appropriate academic skills BUT the big truth in my

A Dad with common-sense advise on raising happy, smart, loving and healthy kids

2009-06-06T14:00:00.000-07:00

No, we don't have a Ph.D in child development and we didn't get a 100 million dollar grant from the government to do research on this topic. What we did get was a revelation from the powers of the Universe along with all the secrets of life including how to raise happy, healthy and smart kids - and in this blog we'd tell you all those secrets - for free. Yeah right ! Who are "We"? We are a