By Gladys Gardner Jenkins, M.A. Moving can be an exciting adventure or an uncomfortable disruption in your child's life. But since children usually follow the lead of their parents, the degree of...
Latchkey children
by Stephen H. Sheldon, D.O., F.A.A.P. "Latchkey children" is a term for youngsters less than 13 years old who care for themselves for significant periods of time before and/or after school and...
You and your baby
The coming of a baby into a home is bound to cause a certain amount of conflict. From time to time, mixed feelings are aroused in parents as well as in brothers and sisters. Most fathers of first...
My feelings
How shall I tell someone what makes me happy? Or what makes me sad? I'll make up a poem. I'll choose from all the words I know, the ones that tell exactly how I feel. I'll put them side by side in...
Families everywhere
I know that my family does some things differently from the ways other families in the world do the same things. But I also know that families---no matter where they live---do some things in the same...
My family
Maybe I live with my natural parents, the mother and father to whom I was born. We love each other. We are a family. But maybe I do not live with my natural parents. Maybe I was adopted. My mother...
Everyone is a “me”
All call themselves "Me." Each person in my family is a "me." Every one of my friends is a "me." Of course, all those "me's" are people. So they are all alike in many ways. All people have...
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson tells of the adventures of a family that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. The story was made up more than 180 years ago by a real Swiss family. They imagined they...
Can you “read” the pictures?
Look at the elephant! Do you see the soldiers on the prancing horse? No, it's not a parade. These are pictures painted on a house in India. Other pictures tell about the family in the house---if you...
Do we have to?
"Aw, come on! Let's play one more game." "We can't. We have to go home now." David and Betty didn't want to leave. They were having too much fun. But helping to set the table is a rule in their...
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