Dealing with bad habits is part and parcel of being a parent. The human brain is hardwired to seek out comfort shortcuts in response to certain environmental factors such as anxiety or boredom, so it’s little wonder that children from toddlers to teens can soon fall into bad ways. Teaching our kids to be emotionally resilient is about giving them the right tools to cope with negative moods. If a habit starts to have a bad impact on their lives, then it’s a good idea to teach them how to break it – a skill they can carry forward into adulthood. In fact, you might even learn something along the way that you can use in your own life.

Too often, we talk about mental illness like it’s an easy problem to fix. Many people are under the false impression that medication is enough to cure issues like depression. Some make the mistake of assuming that therapy offers quick fix. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. While some people do find that short-term treatments keep their mental health in check, the majority of problems are ongoing. That means sufferers have to make a constant effort to keep themselves on top.

A healthy household is a happy one and when you have children, there’s a responsibility to ensure you are doing everything you can to take care of their own health until they’re able to do it themselves. So here are five tips to keep your household healthy.

If you would like to be a good parent, looking after your kids’ essential needs is only the first step. You will have to take responsibility for their mental health, their life choices, their diet, and their education, as well. Being a parent is not easy, and you will face many challenges. First of all, you should keep them safe when they are only small and when they start experimenting and make you worry. Below you will find a few tips on how to take a shot at raising happy and confident kids.

There’s nothing that matters to us so much as our children, they’re quite rightly the most important factor in a parents life and the motivating factor behind so many decisions we make. So when something goes wrong that affects our kids, it’s easy to see why so often we completely go to pieces and lose our cool. But this can make a bad situation so much worse, and it can also affect our children all the more to see someone they trust to have control of a situation completely freak out. Learning to stay calm in a crisis is definitely a parenting skill that can prove extremely valuable.