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Raising Step-Children is…

We families now a days are nuclear(I guess because a divorce is like the atomic bomb to children), on top of dealing with those problems there may be another child or sometime two or three all in one home(like a Brady Bunch type deal). Unlike Brady Bunch there could be serious problems if step-parents don’t [...]

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Single Parenting Effects

Dr. Haim Ginott, a renowned psychologist, mentor and a teacher once remarked, ‘Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression’. Thus, the effects of single parenting on children may, in fact, shape their perception of the world around them. There was a time, when breaking off or staying away from the [...]

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Male Puberty Stages

To define in simple terms, puberty is a phase in human life when changes take place biologically, psychologically, socially and cognitively; boys start to reach their manhood and girls, their womanhood. 10 to 14 is the male puberty age, while for girls, it begins a little earlier, between 9 and 12. This is the reason [...]

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Controlling Parents

‘Parents know best’. Or do they? This has been a dilemma for most children and now this question has become a hotly debated topic in psychology. It is true that as children we might not able to distinguish between what is wrong or right for us and it is here that our parents with all their [...]

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