Kids & Family
Offering Tips on Dog Care and Child Rearing
From flax seed to picking a suitable reward, our bloggers this week delve into pet and child care tips this week.
We had another canine-themed week in Glenview Patch’s Local Voices section, where community members are invited to blog about what’s on their mind. Here’s a round up of some of the week’s blogs — for those of us on two legs as well as four. If you’d like to join our roster of bloggers, please click here to sign up and start posting.
- Who knew that yogurt, pumpkin and green beans were good for dogs? Our Animal Sense blogger did,
- Merlin, every time life throws something potentially scary — in his case a couple of big dogs — your way. “Life is like that sometimes. You can worry and worry because you don't know what's going to happen and then the thing you were worried about ends up being no big deal.”
- Do you know what the derivation of the word “au pair” is? let us know that it means “on a par” or “equal to” in French, so no it’s not “just a nanny with a funny French name - a live-in domestic servant, meant for the rich only.” The blog has lots of other info about how you can welcome an au pair into your family.
- And speaking of kids, child and family psychologist Sherri Singer discusses . She fights the idea that rewards are a uniformly bad idea. “To those who argue that reward is not important, I ask them, would any of you continue to go to work if your paycheck stopped today?”
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