My Kindergartener Hates School. What Should We Do? Introducing Dr. Heather
This year, one of our sons is starting kindergarten. Being a second-born, he was “raring to go” to school; he talked about it incessantly over the last few months. When ...
Are you the best Parent you could be for your child?
Parent as Leader, Parent Leadership. What does it really mean? Do you think that as a parent you are also a leader and if so, how do you go about ...
News
Glubble V2.1 released. A whole new Kids Browser
We’ve just released Glubble v2.1. This release provides a whole new kids browser and personal logins for each child.
Family Man®
Family Man® “On the Loose” By Gregory Keer
I have a bad stomach. Some of it is due to my inability to digest dairy products and Indian food, but most of it stems from stress. Days before a deadline or hours before a public speaking appearance, my tummy plays host to a band of demonic scientists gleefully mixing chemicals to see which combination’s create the grandest explosions.
But it’s not the big anxieties that trouble me most. It’s the countless little ones that buzz around my nervous system each time I try to do my work well enough to keep my job, take a frantic trip to my kids’ schools to pick them up on time, and compose a column that keeps people from dropping off to sleep. (If you’re still awake, you might notice the perspiration beads dotting the spaces between the words on this page.)
Parent Talk
My child has no friends
We are social beings. From the moment we are born we make distinction between the people around us, between relatives, friends and strangers, and start to communicate.
The friendships children have with each other are different than those they have with parents and relatives. Of course, learning and social support result from relationships with parents, teachers, and other adults. But they don’t substitute for other relationships and it is among other children that kids learn how to interact with equals.
Why friendships are important
Children need other children to learn valuable social skills. Through interaction with (school) friends they learn how to do things like join groups, make new friends and deal with competition and conflict. Children need friendships to develop their own indivduality by providing them a supportive context in which self-exploration, emotional growth, and moral development can occur.
Glubble Blog
Get the free Glubble iPhone app today!
At Glubble we love taking family pictures and uploading them to our Family Timeline. We are happy to announce that the free Glubble iPhone app has arrived in the iTunes store!
Ask Linsey
Ask Linsey: Beth in Chicago
Q: I love all the websites suggested to my family in the Glubble library collections, but some aren’t age-appropriate for my youngest children? How can I be sure that they aren’t accessing websites intended for the older siblings? (Beth in Chicago)
Great news! Glubble now allows parents to customize the collection of websites for each user! That means that your children can have a completely different set of websites available to each of them, based on their age and computer-literacy level.
The BabyShrink
Dr. Heather – Finger-Sucking in Preschoolers
Dear Dr. Heather,
My daughter is five-and-a-half and starts kindergarten in the fall. Though she’s not developmentally delayed, she is a bit emotionally immature. The thing is — she’s a finger sucker (the 3 middle fingers on her right hand). It doesn’t interfere with her play, but if her hands are not busy, her fingers are in her mouth. Even when she talks, I constantly have to say, “I can’t understand you if your fingers are in your mouth.” Her 3-year-old brother is a thumb-sucker himself, so that could complicate any attempt to get her to quit.
Quite frankly, this drives me BANANAS. But I don’t want to make her quit just to soothe my own self-consciousness or aggravation. If I do try to help her quit, how? Help me, BabyShrink!
Ellen D.
