Fatherly Tips

How To Avoid Raising a Mean Girl - Establish a strong, loving relationship with your daughter. Reinforcing positive behavior (sharing, generosity) and having zero tolerance for negative language (stupid, dumb, weirdo) at toddlerhood will help to raise an assertive, not bullying, daughter. - Time now for the Dad Joke of the Day - What do you get when you cross a cetipede with a parrot? A Walkie Talkie.

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How To Emotionally Prepare Young Kids for School - Look for signs of anxiety and address them. Whether or not your kids show signs of worry, spending at least a week preparing for the school year with your child — including making them more familiar with the school itself — will go far. Time for the Dad Joke of the Day - Why can't a nose be 12 inches long? Because then it would be a foot.

Presented by Bose. Bose Frames look like regular sunglasses, but tiny speakers hidden in the temples create an immersive experience unlike any other. Go to Bose dot com to find out more. - Treat the transition as you would jet lag. This means moving your kid's sleep back gradually, day-by-day in small increments until they are set with a bed-time routine consistent with their school schedule. And here's the Dad Joke of the Day - What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck.

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When to Discipline Your Toddler - Turn to timeouts when your kids are old enough to potty train. Before this, the best remedy for an acting up kid is to use redirection, distracting them away from their defiance with a silly face or a tickle. Or you could tell them a Dad Joke, like this one - I like telling Dad jokes. Sometimes he laughs.

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How to Prevent Bed Wetting - Keep calm and carry on when it comes to night-time accidents. 20 percent of potty-trained kids will wet their beds until they reach kindergarten and stress is itself one of the most common bed-wetting triggers. - And it's time for the Dad Joke of the Day - Why did Mickey Mouse take a trip into space? He wanted to find Pluto.

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How and When to Introduce Children to Computers - "-Introducing children to technology has no real upside until after their sixth birthday when they possess the mental capacity to think a bit more abstractly. -Before the age of six, parents should be much more focused on socialization, confidence, self-control, and all the other good traits no one associates with browsing online.

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How to Keep Kids Safe Online - "-If parents try to get in on digital safety when their kid has already hit their teens, the impact of their guidance will be blunted -Opportunities to talk about data safety often come when playing online games with kids. When they’re playing games, parents can find out from the child what they really like about online technology, and what it is that they’re maybe less sure about, and seize those moments.

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