Your Child's Growth, Health and Development

Monthly Archive: September 2017

Sons 0

Parenting

As a Mother Raising a Son

Today’s post is from a guest blogger. Mrs. Jeong shares her insights as a mom raising two active sons. This is translated from the original Korean post, so click on the Korean language link above if you would like to read the Korean version. As a mother raising a son,...

Self Esteem Love 0

Parenting / Self Esteem

12 Tips to Build Your Child’s Self Esteem

I attended a new parent seminar.  The presenter was a child psychologist who also had an extensive experience working as a guidance counselor in the public school system. There, I learned that as a parent, raising your children with high self esteem should be one of the top priorities. A...

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Bilingualism / Parenting

On Raising a Bilingual Child

Benefits of Bilingualism Beyond the obvious and practical benefits of bilingualism, such as being equipped to understand a whole new culture, studies have shown that being bilingual has many other benefits. For example: According to a 2004 study by psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual preschoolers had an advantage in...

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Child Development

Definition of Childhood Obesity

Body Mass Index (BMI) is often used to determine obesity in children and in adults. BMI is most commonly determined as a ratio of weight to height squared. As such, BMI is not perfect because it does not directly measure body fat. A muscular athlete may have a high BMI,...

WHO vs CDC 0

Child Development

WHO vs. CDC Growth Charts

WHO stands for the World Health Organization, “The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.” (form Wikipedia). CDC stands for the Center for Disease Prevention and Control, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading...

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Child Development

How Tall Will My Child Be?

Let’s face it. Heightism or Height Discrimination is actually a thing. It affects both your love life and your professional life. One inch equals $30,000 in the online dating world, and a person 6 feet tall would be predicted to earn nearly $166,000 more over the course of 30 years...