Various ideas pour in from friends and families when they plan you party. One may suggest a simple cake and just a few presents while other may suggest a carnival themed party for her one-year-old which is complete with pony rides, a popcorn machine, and clowns.

While selecting the idea is ultimately in the hands of the parents, one also has to keep in mind the budget. A simple birthday party may suit an average household budget the theme based birthday party would suit more a lavish household.

A lot of things have to be kept in mind while preparing for the first birthday party. These range from invitation cards to birthday cakes to gifts and so on. Below here we have collated a list of few of the items which are generally used in the planning the first birthday party of your child:

The lovely Decorations include……

Festive Balloons hung on the walls
Favourite photos of your child from youth to old
First Birthday banner or poster for guests to sign in

Creative arts and crafts include…….

Tattooing
Nail painting
Beading

Fun frolicking games include…..

Passing a festive balloon on the tone of music
Free play area for kids
Box Yards

Fun Food for kids include…..

Potato Smileys
Cheese and crackers
Raw vegetable platter with dip

Planning a birthday party is not a cake walk. While preparing a birthday party consumes a lot of energy, it also gives a fun and frolicking moments which is spent with your friends and families. To enjoy more of such moments with your friends and families one can always make use of specialized party planners who cater to the management of such events.

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1. Always warn your children on any of their misdeed before chastening.

2. Ensure you give your children the punishment that they are capable to do and even related to what they did.

3. Maintain consistency and monitor the punishment given to your children.

4. Good parenting involves maintaining calmness and voice of businesslike behavior.

5. Have it in mind that a minute of a child is an hour because children sense of time is different from the adults.

6. With good parenting tips, you will understand how to be consistent because even up to the age of twelve years, children still could not understand those things that are outstanding to the rule and if you are not consistent, they will take you as a liar.

7. Another good parenting tip is to accept caring and teaching as discipline because helping your children to be of good behavior is the best you can give to them.

8. Do not discipline your children unnecessarily.

9. Good parenting requires unity from both husband and wife. Whenever you did not agree with a certain punishment, ensure you are patient until the occurrence has been sorted out with your husband or wife and do not try to take decision on your own before the time.

10. Give your child many opportunities in order to assist them in the tasks that involves parent. Young children love to belong and feel helpful and felt bad whenever you tell them that they cannot help because they are too young. If such statement is made in good parenting, such child will become violent.

11. Make preparation for quiet place at the time out. Do not attend to any child talks during time out. Just separate yourself from people in the family.

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You can bring up children that you can be proud of with the tips listed below:

1. BATHING CULTURE: Nearly all toddlers have inherent fears and one of the commonest among all is bathing. When it comes to taking bath, they generally fears drowning, not even the highly reasonable such as calving toddlers are bold enough to face bath. You can motivate your child to imbibe bath discipline by making available to him or her toys, coloring agents, bubble baths, stories, music and even games. Just tell him to collect his cherish toy and bath for it daily. Systematically your child becomes use to the bathroom items, water and the exact time. Alternatively you can always take birth in company of your child. As he or she is getting use to this without resistance, adhere to the usual time schedule.

2. TEETH BRUSHING: Admittedly, it is herculean task for virtually all the parenting toddlers to imbibe teeth brushing into their children. The bitter truth is that nearly all adults including myself find it difficult to brush teeth twice in a day. It is therefore suggested that you begin the introduction of this culture into your toddler early enough. Do not wait until your child grows 5 to 10 teeth, the moment the teeth start its eruption begin the cleaning with moist clothes, this will guarantee fresh breath for your child. At toddling, brush your teeth same time with your child. When taking him for shopping give him or her room to select the customize type of his choice tooth brush.

3. BITTING BLUES: In direct response to self difference, some children result to biting. This is an expression of annoyance, impatient or in a bid to gain your focus. Your response towards this behavior should not be negative otherwise; you will only succeed in justifying the reason for biting. One way to educate your toddler that the attitude is not welcomed is to watch the child’s attitude each time he or she is in the gathering of people. Anytime you notice he or she is about to bite for any reason, ensure that you look eyeball to eyeball and say “stop it”. It will be very bad of you to bite back your child as you will be giving him or her wrong impression. Do not forget to give him or her compliments anytime he or she protests with utterance and not biting.

4. SHARING WITH JOY: Seeing a new toy for the first instance, they tend to monopolize it. By this, one may quickly conclude that they are selfish and domineering. It is erroneous on the part of any parents to cease the toys as a result rather they should give that children a little time to get tired of these toys and relax their controls.

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a. One of the advantages of reading good parenting books is that it will help you to manage your home before the arrival of your children and when the children comes, if there is any bugging problems, you will be able to tackle them even you will be able to identify the problem before it happens. Reading a child rearing books will be of help.

b. It is also advisable to buy good parenting books that will tell you all the necessary things that you will need through out the age one of your child. Through this you will have the knowledge of what you will probably pass through and when the need arise; you will know that you are on the right track.

c. Another advantage that to be derived from reading good parenting books is to know more about children health challenges and how to tackle them. When you are familiar with the symptoms and the names of all this viruses and sicknesses of your baby or kid and the cure of the diseases, then your anxiety will not be too high and you will spend less in the hospital on your child’s medication and medical check ups.

d. Nutrition knowledge is another advantage that could be derived from child rearing books. This will let you know the right proportion of meals that is good for your health and that of your children. With the help of the good parenting books, you will be able to prepare a food for your children which they will not be able to resist.

e. Reading good parenting books written by pediatricians and psychologists as you will have enough knowledge medically on how to train and nurture your kids.

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Try to be a Good Example: The parents should try to be a good role model for their daughters. Fathers should treat all women equally and mothers too. Mothers should feel proud of being a women and this should be known to your daughter. Whatever the parents do will only affect the daughters. So, it is the duty of the parents to behave in a right path.

Encourage their Interests: Try to find out the passion of your daughters and make them excel in that field. Do not hesitate to what they ask. Make them perform well in which they have interest. Encourage her to participate in different activities.

Provide Independence: Give your daughter full independence so that they come to know about the world and they would be able to manage with any kind of situations. Do not run behind your daughter wherever she goes. Let her alone so she might learn things from surroundings.

Encourage Self-Worth: Just encourage your daughters on her success. This does not mean to scold when they fail. Try to encourage them as much as possible and do not compare your daughter with others. Make your daughter feel that she is unique from others. Make her to feel her worth and ask her to proceed on her strengths.

Spend your Time: Try to spend your time with your daughter so that she might not feel alone. Spending time will let to know about each of them. You can know your daughter well if you are frank to her. Show her love, care and affection.

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There is many a tip that one can easily follow for the best trial of good parenting to the new generation child! Troublesome as it may be to understand the sentiments of a bratty or an adamant child, it is essential to try and have a multi approach with children. Children have many demands today. Their exposure to television, cable, internet and peer pressure at times, that the child may experience in school, could make the child competitive, adamant or stuck with an attitude. These are quirks that can be overcome by new generation and new age parenting.

-          Understand your child as a friend at times, instead of looking at a situation as a parent or an adult only.

-          Give your child the confidence to be able to come up to you and have a chat with you about anything that can be playing on his or her mind. This will develop into a structure and a productive relationship between you and your child, thereby making the rapport one that is effective and efficient.

-          Children have the ability to speak brashly at times, when they do not realize what they are saying could be harsh or attitude-stricken. At times like this, instead of being strict, leniency, understanding and proper explanation will show the child that he or she is speaking incorrectly and the explanation will help them understand clearly and confidently. Of course, at times, a good shouting is necessary when things go or seem to go out of hand. A strict message when sent across with no verbal abuse of language, with only a good flow of sentences,  said with firmness, and this to be done only when completely needed, is a good way to show a child a good lesson.

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-          Be a friend when it is needed to your child. See your child’s confidence and ability build up and enhance by being friendly with them, laughing with them,  sharing emotions with them, understanding them as their friends would and putting yourself in their shoes and giving advice as a third or a neutral party and this will help a child to extents that are unimaginable.

-          Being strict or having a firm say when things seem to be spiraling out of control or out of hand, is a good measure or a balance to the equation with your child. For instance, if your child has really crossed his or her limits. Then it is good to have a firm say and firmly state or explain with a firm and string voice to your child, so that he or she understands that you are not joking and that you are explaining to him or her what is right and needed, and this will help to strike an equitable balance in your approach and in your rapport with your child.

-          This balance will help the child to understand when you are being lenient and when you are being strong about certain view points and this will help your child to respect and learn from you more.

-          An open relationship of trust and honesty is certainly important. For instance, do not lie to your child and your child will learn honestly from you and never be dishonest too. At times, when you are trying to be protective to your child and thereby do not want to honestly say something, do not be dishonest, instead try to divert to another topic, but for honestly to be inculcated in your child, a parent must try to do so too or divert the topic.

These are fundamentals pertinent to the new gen parent or new age parent.

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Why do you think that is? What could be the possible reasons for the existence of such a workshop and nowadays, for many a parent, a need based tool?

What are the reasons behind the innate need to have a regular updating in your parenting skills?

Let’s try to answer the above with logic and sensbilites. Children are like sponges, they grasp what they hear and they grasp what they see. Years and decades ago, there was no concept of a cellular phone or a Television with Cable tv. There was less exposure and therefore, fewer chances of children breaking rules and fewer chances of children rebelling.

Today, it is a set trend, especially in metropolitans like Mumbai, for children to act out and act rebellious and in the process, have a communication gap that later goes on to be filled with the aid of much-needed tools like Parenting Workshops.

What do Parenting Workshops provide?- Well, for starters, they provide an insight into the minds of children from a parent’s point of view. These workshops are designed to allow parents to understand children. To render understanding to a child’s point of view is a kick-start to a good communication between parents and children. These workshops vary in their duration and number of days. They instill advice in parent’s minds about recognizing the needs of children in their indirect way of showing their needs, for instance, through rebellion or outrage or outbursts . By recognizing those needs, a better solution is possible. A harmony is formed. This is called decoding a child’s behavioural pattern. Learning methods to instill discipline yet not be harsh is a equitable balance and it is like walking on thin ice. A parent has to be cautious and has to keep in mind the level of flexibility to possess. These workshops give a certain new kind of confidence to the parents to deal with their child. Teenage years are often, complicated because the child and parent face new obstacles and difference of opinions on nearly every topic discussed and this becomes a challenging situation, but these workshops train parents to keep a grip on their mind and their actions and try to understand the different changes that their child is going through emotionally and psychologically and with that knowledge, parents find it simpler dealing with those bratty teenage behavioural patterns. Last of all, Harmony at home gives a child a breath of fresh air. Unity between parents and harmony at home is a contributing factor towards a positive development for a child.

Children are the future of the country – It’s a popular quote and it’s true. It’s similarly true that children belonging to this generation are far more exposed and far more aware than any other generation of the past and the future will only increase this quotient. Therefore, parents too need to keep up the pace of updating their parenting methods and keep on par with the updating of the exposure the kids receive…!!

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Pointers to parents to deal with difficult children

1. Children have hearts of gold and this saying will remain a constant. So often, when children are being difficult and a parent thinks yelling or hitting a child is the answer, it is far from the truth. Children respond to warmth. If a child has broken a rule of the house for the first time, be gentle in your explanation to the child. If the same rule is broken the second time, first find out if has been intentional or not. If it’s been done unintentionally then excuse the child and explain again. If it’s broken for the third time, then be stern voiced and tell your child. If any more times, then exhibit a strong tone in voice ( lean towards the beginning of strict by putting your foot down and even firmly raising your voice a bit to prove a point to your child )
2. Children who are difficult are often coping with different thoughts or insecurities of their own and do not always express them to a parent. This is why when you your child dis-obeying you or being the opposite of behaved, then you must first try to find out what is playing on your child’s mind.
3. There is a saying Spare the rod and spoil the child. But today, every move is accounted for. Every move of a parent has to be re-thought several times. What used to never be on the radar today has made it to topping lists—-Child Psychology. Child psychologists are making their professional galore across the globe. So parents, think many times before laying a hand to hit a child because as stated before, children today have a different mind structure and a different constitution. Yes, a gentle hit where a child does not really get hurt, once in a way, when things look to get very out of hand, is a possible method of inducing good discipline, but any more than that, you might lose communication and respect of your child for that time.
4. Give curfews to your teenage kid. (when he or she goes out in the evening) Let your child understand that he or she cannot take curfews and deadlines for granted
5. Ground them only when necessary (Time-out)
6. Have a conversation and discussion with your child. Let there even be scope for positive debate and this will leave an impressionable mark on your child
7. You were a child once too———- Different as you may have been,——— You still  may have been difficult in your own way——-

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Let’s go through some easy exercises that would benefit your child through the walk of life.

1. Encourage Reading. You should motivate your children to read. For younger kids, you should set up a schedule of reading with them.

2. Allocate Assignments. Ask them to finish an assignment depending on their age. For the smaller children it can be picking up their toys or for the elder ones, helping you with a more complex task around the house. Assign a time limit for them to finish the task within and as they’ve effectively accomplished the task, appreciate and praise them to boost their confidence.

3. Create Lists. For long or comprehensive assignments or if your child needs to complete a number of tasks, crafting lists can help them concentrate on their tasks. A huge task is made less frightening if you split it up into steps.

4. Make them have a picture of success. Keep asking them frequently what do they want to achieve in life. Make them sketch images of the success they want and place it wherever noticeable. This way, they will be focused about their aim and will have an ambitious outlook towards life.

You can keep changing these exercises according to the age group of your child or their maturity level. This will help them throughout their life and will build their concentration level. They will be comparatively more focused and will be able to concentrate better.

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