Molding Your Teens

Are you having sleeping problems lately thinking about your child's future? Are you one of the many parents who are having problems with their teenagers? It is absolutely a fact that two out of ten teenagers go through a stage that we call storm of problems but with proper guidance, these kids will surpass all these struggles in life. Is it possible for kids not to experience problems in life? Nope, but it is possible that a teenager may not turn to drugs, alcohol, pre-marital sex and even suicide when problems hit his life. How do you do this? Proper guidance and quality time spent by parents to their children will be of great help. It may sound corny or mushy but young men also need love and affection from their parents. They are also humans who crave companionship as well as an understanding ear from their parents.

Aside from spending quality time with your teenagers, you should inculcate in his young mind the boundaries of right from wrong. It would be better for the kid to know his limitations, and to know that everything here on earth may be permissible, and not everything is beneficial to him. That is why, at an early age, it is better that you introduce to him to productive ways on how to spend his time.

1. Coin collection- if your child is the introvert type, then you introduce to him the art of coin collection rather than he will spend the time lock up in his room talking. This will open up his eyes about the history of economy. You can start by searching online on how to begin a coin collection, and share it with him. Anyway, it is not hard to start a coin collection these days because one can already purchase genuine old coins such as the 1878 Morgan Silver Dollar.

At What Age Can I Start Dating

Dating is the first of the pre-marriage relationships. The other stages are courtship and engagement. It simply means meeting, appointment, going out with someone or seeing someone with the objective of learning relationship skills or socialization and building a relationship. The age at which someone starts dating helps to determine which dating objective is in focus. The ultimate objective of dating is to find a courtship partner or would be spouse.

At what age one can start dating has become a thorny issue. Among the advanced climes of the world, dating is incorporated in the growing up of people.

Yoga For Children

The philosophy and practices of classical Yoga are for application by adults and it can be anticipated that parents will naturally transmit appropriate information to their children.

However as Yoga offers a total education ranging from physical culture to mind training and spiritual awareness it is understandable that there are many aspects which can be contributed by the professional Yoga teacher and used to complement present educational systems that are found wanting. To help towards this end I dedicated many years pioneering in this field. In many parts of the world where I have travelled and presented ideas and techniques designed to adapt classical yoga teachings for children they have been enthusiastically received, serving to attract more teachers to this particular specialization.

Challenges in Education in Today's Society - Globalization and Changes in Education

Recent investigations in the study of demographical trends at global level are currently making light on a very controversial aspect, although ignored by global institutions, like O.N.U., U.N.D.P., G 20, same by organizations with attributions in the educational field (as UNESCO, Youth International Authorities and other). The so-called "demographic winter" phenomenon, which reveals the dramatic consequences of the "modern" life, marked by familial and moral decline, by miscarriage, vulgarization and the homosexuality "normalization", by the poisoning influence of the majority of mass-media and the "Hollywood culture" are inoculating egocentrism, frivolity and irresponsibility. Considering this demographical trend offers a new dimension to the way in which abundance and resource of the world are distributed and also gives a new vision on elementary educational issues.

Character Education For Kids is Very Important - Moral Education For Modern Day Children

Why Character Education for kids is so Important?

There has been a shortage of character education in schools and this is becoming more evident from the increase in the crime rate and violent incidents taking place all over the world. Studies those have been made in different countries and the subsequent research done by experts and NGOs go on to show that there is a dramatic "moral decline" in the western world including America and Western Europe as well as Australia.

Much of these destructive trends are a direct result of the modern day social ideologies and thought processes that perpetuate self-indulgence and gratification of ones own being. Modern day thought processes deeply believe in the statistical data and is therefore obsessed with the massive growth in the mass media, the online world and the social networking sites like Face book, Orkut, Twitter etc. Modern day kids often try and look for solving their problems on the net which results in utmost confusion and wrongful decision making by them.

Retransforming the Education System

There are certain set of moral values and traditional beliefs that are passed on from older generations to newer generations. These values and belief now however are falling short of the latest trends in the education system. We all now that change is inevitable. Based on this theory the education system also needs to undergo tremendous change so that it can cope up with the fast changing times. The old standards of reading, writing and learning have to be left behind in order to put new methodologies to use. The world today is a global village and the education system of today revolves around this thought.

The subjects whether related to academic topics or with social concerns are being talked about at international level and not at national or regional level. The schools today are not teaching the lessons of patriotism. No one wants to limit their child's thought to the borders of a country. The teachers of today teach the lesson of unity in diversity. Instead of teaching "God bless America" teachers are emphasizing on "We are the world". The lessons that even give a single hint of racism or traditionalism have been chucked out of the text books. The text books have lessons which are compatible with the whole world. The social issues also are related with issues like global warming and other environmental issues.

The Moral Education of Children

Many parents are concerned about laying a good foundation for their children that they might grow to become moral, responsible adults. In part, parents often rely on Sunday school or other types of religious education to help convey the message of morality. In raising moral children, there are a few points that bear remembering.

First, child rearing is a developmental endeavor. That implies that children progress through moral stages and understandings at a certain (variable) pace. There is little evidence that children can be hurried along the developmental journey. There is a developmental track for moral development, social development, and cognitive development. All areas of development come into play in our efforts to raise moral children. Jean Piaget, the famous developmentalist, reminds us that young children have not yet arrived at the stage of formal, symbolic thought.