A visit to the dentist is often fraught with anxiety but toys in a dentist' waiting room might be the answer for children. So which ones should your dentist have?

It behoves the dentist to have a range of toys, such as Schleich characters, to appeal to all age groups so that any young patient can find something of interest. Children are always apprehensive going to the dentist and will seldom settle down to look at a book, unless the parent takes an active role in helping the...

I had never realised that I was a poor girl before I was 12 years old.
My parents are the most ordinary people. Dad was a plumber of a small company and mum ran a tofu stall in the market near our community. In my childhood, we lived in a double-room house. Small as it was, mum decorated our house in warm and fragnant colors and in the house, you could always feel that you were at home and was greatly welcome.
I had no idea that I was from a poor family for my parents never...

Well, summer is almost here and it is almost time to forget about homework and the stress that comes with it. Now is the time to focus on getting ready for summer vacations and having fun outdoors doing the things that all scouts love to do. You know what I am talking about.

Fishing, camping and just being outside with your fellow scouts and friends. But what we have to remember before we go out on our first expedition is to make sure that we have all our scout equipment in good,...

It is because of the popularity of video games, summer camps are now including video game designing and creation in their curriculum and camp activities. In fact, there are camps that offer special training in different aspects of the gaming world.

Kids are acquainted with the basic principles of creating arcade and platform games by means of courses offered for example, Clickteam® Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer ® and Adobe® Photoshop®. Apart from creating games,...

According to National Survey of Substance Abuse TreatmentServices there are anywhere between 40-60,000 people in a treatment center a month in Texas alone. Now, that is a lot of people struggling with some form of drug abuse. Among that number we see that around 27-30% of those in treatment centers are teenagers. I think it is safe to say that we are living among a generation that is affected by the use of some form of substance. It is hard for any teen to not know a family...

Statistics on teenagers suffering from depression and other mental ailments are alarming. Various studies suggest that 1 in 4 teens suffer from some sort of mental illness. Teenage mental illness, to include depression, can have dire consequences. Teenage suicide is on the rise. It is the third leading cause of death in the age bracket of 15 to 24 years. Dealing with depression in teens is an important step in reducing these numbers in our society.

Many things can lead to...

Kids answering you back all the time and just being downright defiant? Children bickering all the time? With you or with their siblings? Do you need help with defiant children and managing defiant kids? This article will help you and suggest a useful website for further help.

Why Are Kids Defiant?

Defiant children are often angry, frustrated, looking to externalize blame and operating under the assumption that they are equal in authority and wisdom to adults. This results in...

Living life as a teenager is not simple at all. For one, there are a lot of rules and you are obliged to obey those rules unless you want to be grounded. But the toughest of them all is when you are overweight or suffering teenage obesity . One seems to experience all kinds of jokes as a teenager when you are fat. Those around you will not only make fun of you but also humiliate and mock you in public. This kind of harassment will hurt your ego and at the same time will cause teen...

There was a time when adolescents were not given the place in society they deserved. The life path unfolded for individuals as childhood which led straight to adulthood. There was no place in between or no significance given to this important phase in life. However over time, adolescence emerged as an extremely important period of life where an individual makes a transition from childhood to becoming an adult. Hence, adolescent psychology was born.

While, changed living conditions...

When was the last time you visited with a lonesome only to have their children frog demo you out to the backyard to vista their newest acquisition which you knew little about, their pet guinea pig?

And delightful they are, for guinea pigs make great pets, but they were not forever a domestic animal, so just where do they originate from, and where did they get that name from, because, lets face it, a very odd name.

Well let me shock you by initially saying that they...