childhood development, children, discipline, parenting, raising children

The Importance of How to Discipline Your Children

As a parent, you know that disciplining your children is an important and necessary part of raising them. But it’s just as important to pay attention to how you discipline them as it is to why you discipline them. While a child being lazy and irresponsible is certainly detrimental to their development, the most critical ...

Emma Lu

A naughty girl.

3 Reasons Why a Family Cannot Become Prosperous

Having a good family tradition is more valuable than possessing wealth alone in the long run. A good family tradition is a foundation for a family to become prosperous for generations. 3 pitfalls to avoid to become prosperous 1. Spoiling and indulging children In a traditional Chinese family, parents, who exhibit authority and wisdom, raise ...

Emma Lu

A smiling, happy family.

Great Sons and Greater Fathers

On Father’s Day, we take a look back at the meaning of fatherhood, both of great sons and greater fathers, and its significance in our present-day society. It seems like wherever we turn, men and fathers are taking a beating, with the blaming of patriarchy for every problem under the sun. In short, fathers are ...

Armin Auctor

Family Values You Should Teach Your Children

The modern era is highly individualist. The primary aim of every person is to satisfy their desires. Some say that such attitudes have created a generation of people who shun family values and related social norms, a behavioral shift they believe will take society down the path of ruin. How did it get to this ...

Emma Lu

Parents and their son.

Good Parenting: How to Respond to Tantrums

There is a story of a mother who didn’t know what to do when her child threw temper tantrums. Depressed, she sat outside the house. There, as she watched the flowers in her garden, she realized something about parenting. When she went back in, she had a strategy for dealing with one of the most ...

Raven Montmorency

Young boy throwing a tantrum.

Keeping Your Home Looking Decent With Kids

Having small children in the house can be a mind-bender for most parents, especially when the kids are really young. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the constant stream of chaos that they can effortlessly unload on you. However, there are always ways of keeping your home looking decent even with a bunch of kids ...

Raven Montmorency

A young child with playthings.

How to Teach Your Children Good Habits

You want the best for your children. You want them to grow up as kind, good-natured, and respected individuals in society. To accomplish this, you must teach your children good habits. What’s amazing is how easily we forget when we were kids and the environment that helped mold our personality into what it is today. ...

Raven Montmorency

A mother holding her daughter.

4 Ways Working Parents Can Support Each Other

According to a survey conducted by the Harvard Business School, almost 94 percent of professionals tend to work in excess of 50 hours per day. In a family with two working parents, the added stress of managing children and the household can take a toll on them. A 2015 study by Pew Research Center found that ...

Raven Montmorency

A husband and wife walking their child.

A Sordid Tale of Raising a Child in Communist China

Kirsty Needham is a journalist who works as the China correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. In one of her recent write-ups about her life in China, Kirsty recounts the “unpleasantness” of raising her child in the country. Living in China with a child Kirsty starts off by mentioning an incident that occurred while she ...

Max Lu

A young Chinese boy.

Hong Kong Couple Ask a Taiwan Pastor to Take Care of Their Child

Immediately after giving birth to their first baby in Taiwan, a young couple decided to return to Hong Kong to get back to the protest. They wanted to entrust their baby to the pastor, Huang Chun-Sheng, and said: “We are willing to give our lives for Hong Kong.” The Chief Pastor of the Presbyterian Church ...

Helen London

The young couple was involved in the protest.