Thank you very much from my heart for your continue support!

We have a new design of our home page at www.parents-and-kids.com.

During the two weeks, “Parenting Blog” discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“The Challenge Immigrant Family Face”

Immigration to a new country has never been easy. When it comes to educate their children, immigrant parents have even more obstacles because of the cultural conflicts.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/12/the-challenge-immigrant-family-face/

“ How Parents and Children of Immigrant Families Learn and Assimilate Into the New Country?”

“Do in Rome as Rome does”

In order to be able to adapt to the new country really quickly, parents and kids have to learn together. Here are some suggestions for parents and kids in immigrants’ family.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/12/how-parents-and-children-of-immigrant-families-learn-and-assimilate-into-the-new-country/

Welcome your comments!

We are approaching the holiday season, in “Parents Place”, we discussed several topics to help you prepare for the busy holiday.

“Healthy Holiday Eating Tips”

It is common that people gain average several ponds during holiday season. Big change of weight in a short time does affect our health! In order to stay healthy, healthy eating for parents and kids in the Holiday Season is essential. Here are some practical tips on eating healthily during the holiday season.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/health-food/47

“Using a Holiday Gift to Show Love”

Holiday is the time to say love to your parents, kids, family and friends. Using a holiday gift to show your love is a great way. We share some homemade holiday gifts ideas and some holiday gift ideas by your budget.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/education/48

Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!

At “Kids Place”, a kid wrote a script, and “slow-zombie” was showing in it…… Real world? Anime world?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/high-school-student/21

At “Ask & Answer of Forum”, we got one of the answers on the question “Private schools or public schools?” at http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/education/71#comments

Another question is asked, which is “Any holiday gift ideas for parents and kids?” at http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/education/72

Welcome you join the discussion and share your experience with us.

If you want to be inspired and want to inspire your kids, check out our weekly updated well selected world famous “Quotes, Proverbs, Adages” at

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/quotes/en/

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Merry Christmas and Wish You Have a Healthy, Happy, and Successful

New Year!

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This week “Parenting Blog” in www.parents-and-kids.com discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“How to Motivate Teenagers to Be Their Best”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

I like the quote and believe that as human being, we should try our best to be our best. I also want to pass this value to my children and share my thought with those who have same believe.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/12/how-to-motivate-teenagers-to-be-their-best/

“How to Guide Teenagers on Nutrition and Exercises for Staying Healthy”

Health is the first priority for all of us. Nutrition and exercises are the fundamentals for staying healthy. Nowadays there are more and more overweight and under exercised teenagers. Teaching teenagers how to eat right and exercise become more important, which gives them the motivation they need to make fitness a part of their everyday lifestyle. By staying healthy, teenagers can improve their study effectiveness and a longer and higher quality life span.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/11/how-to-guide-teenagers-on-nutrition-and-exercises-for-staying-healthy/

“How to Help Teenagers Manage Stress”

We say teenagers like the sun at 8am, which means they are going to make progress, they are going to have a bright future. However, teenagers do have to know how to manage stress, because nowadays with the increasing competition and increasing distraction, they are under pressure. They are trying to figure out their future path, where they fit into the world, they sometimes feel lost, sometimes become over-anxious; they need parents’ guidance and support to develop stress management skills.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/11/how-to-help-teenagers-manage-stress/

Welcome your comments!

For those who are preparing for SAT, we recommend you

“How to Prepare the SAT Subject Test SATII”

In this post, we answer “what, why, when, how” questions related to SATII, and also recommend some SAT II Prep Strategies.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/11/how-to-prepare-the-sat-subject-test-satii/

If you are interested in internet business, let’s learn it together at “Parents Place”.

“Top 20 SEO Tips”

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is crucial for a website to get traffic from search engines, namely to serve more users. There are Whitehat SEO and Blackhat SEO. If you use Blackhat SEO, your web pages can be banned. Therefore, to learn the good techniques and avoid bad ones is a must.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/42

“Using a List of Ping Services to Generate More Traffic to Your Web Site”

Every web site wants more visitors, in webmasters’ word, wants more traffic comes to the web site. How to generate traffic is a very hot topic for webmasters, and there are many ways to achieve it, such as SEO, web 2.0 etc. Using a list of ping services to generate more traffic is one of the great ways.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/46

Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!

At “Kids Place”, a kid is talking about “Cats” and I learn something from it.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/high-school-student/19

At “Ask & Answer of Forum”,

We got some answers on the question “Can you recommend some piano teachers for kids?” at http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/education/70

A new question is asked, which is “Private schools or public schools?” at

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/education/71

Welcome you join and share your experience with us.

If you want to be inspired and want to inspire your kids, check out our weekly updated well selected world famous “Quotes, Proverbs, Adages” at

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/quotes/en/

If you want to recommend us to your friends, using the following link

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2449821&loc=en_US

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Thank you very much from my heart for your continue support!

This week “Parenting Blog” in www.parents-and-kids.com discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“Understand Children’s Needs”

To understand children’s needs is must for good parenting. Only we as parents understand children’s needs, can we help children in a positive way and meet their needs as possible as we can, which leads to effective parenting.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/10/understand-children-needs/

“Parenting Teenagers”

Teenage is a very difficult time for kids themselves as well as their parents. The kids no longer remain kids and they are yet to become adults. In order to achieve better parenting, we would like to discuss several topics. We will start with the development of teens’ brain, then move to figure out what are teenagers’ needs? How to connect with teenagers? How to help them handle stress? How to guide them on nutrition and exercises? How to motivate them? How to be a good parent to guide teenagers to success?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/10/parenting-teenagers/

Welcome your comments!

For those who are interested in learning Chinese or Japanese,

We did some research on the web and summary as the following to help those who are interested in learning Chinese for free or Japanese for free.

“Learn Chinese Free”

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/2008/11/learn-chinese-free/

“Learn Japanese Free”

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/2008/11/learn-japanese-free/

If you are interested in internet business, let’s learn it together at “Parents Place”.

“Three Easy Steps for Effective Keyword Research ”

Keyword research is used by search engine optimization (SEO) to find actual search terms users enter into the search engines when they are conducting a search. It is the first and a vital step for search engine optimization to raise your website’s visibility. If your website is targeting the wrong keywords, the possibility that search engines and your users find your website is very low.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/22

Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!

At “Kids Place”, a post is talking about

“US Presidential Election”

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/middle-school-student/14

At “Ask & Answer of Forum”, we have a question

“Can you recommend some piano teachers for kids?”

If you know any piano teacher, we appreciate you can help answer this question at

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/education/70

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Thank you very much from my heart for your support!

This week “Parenting Blog” in www.parents-and-kids.com discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“Thoughts on Confucian Parenting”

Confucius (Kong Fu Zi/K’ung Fu-tzu, from 551 to 479 B.C) was a Chinese philosopher who focused on human morality and right behavior, had tremendous influence on East Asia culture.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/10/thoughts-on-confucian-parenting/

“Observation on Japanese Parenting”

In Japan, many women become full-time housewives after they got married. After a baby was born, it is his or her mother’s responsibility to take care of him or her. Early childhood education is called mother education in Japan, and a lot of Japanese think a mother’s capabilities determine her child’s development and growth.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/10/observation-on-japanese-parenting/

Welcome your comments!

For parents of high school students:

“Great Free Stuff for ACT Preparation”

We did a lot of research and summarized a list to help students prepare ACT efficiently.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/2008/10/great-free-stuff-for-act-preparation/

If you are interested in internet business, let’s learn it together at “Parents Place”.

“How to Market a Website Inexpensively and Effectively”

Like any business, marketing your website is crucial. In order to market your website inexpensively and effectively, here we introduce five online and four offline marketing ways to achieve that.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/16

Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!
Read interesting posts at “Kids Place”, you may be surprised at what you read.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/

At “Ask & Answer of Forum”, we have a very serious question “What Makes Me?”
Join our discussion at
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/

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Thank you very much from my heart for your support!

This week “Parenting Blog” in www.parents-and-kids.com discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“How to Be a Good Parent”

We answered the following questions:

How to define “A Successful Child”? What are the good parenting principles? What are some parenting styles? What are the characteristics of a good parent by North American Culture? What kind of lessons we have learned although some parents desired to be good parents and actually tried hard, at last just got bad results?

Welcome your comments!

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/topics/be-a-good-parent/

For parents of high school students:

“Great Free Stuff for SAT Preparation ”

We did a lot of research and summarized a list to help students prepare PSAT/SAT efficiently. We already received a lot of compliment for this great and must read info.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/2008/10/great-free-stuff-for-sat-preparation/

Recently, several friends asked me

“how can I start a website? How did you do that?”

I answered the question in “An Easy and Effective Way to Start a Website”.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/12

Writing is a critical skill for communication, which can fire a person’s thought, can deepen a person’s thinking. We encourage parents to practice writing by “Post a New Topic” at “Parents Place”:

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/

Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!　Welcome kids to “Post a New Topic” at “Writing Plaza” of “Kids Place”:

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/

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This week “Parenting Blog: Kids Are Our Future” discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“What is Family Education for you?”

As parents, what role should we play on raising kids? Is it merely to bring up kids by providing them for emotional, physical, social needs? To nurture kids to become independent and competent adults? Is there something more? In order to help kids to succeed in the global society, what the value we should teach them? How to handle the culture difference even the conflict?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/09/what-is-family-education-for-you/

For parents of high school students:

“Best Ways to Prepare for PSAT/SAT/ACT”

We summarized eight ways to help students prepare PSAT/SAT/ACT efficiently.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/09/best-ways-to-prepare-for-psat-sat-act/

Our “Forum” has a “new face”, we redesigned the user interface(UI), hope you feel more convenient to post your new topics and write comments.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/

“East Asian and American Values”

There are fundamental value difference exist between East Asian and American.

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/culture/8

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In the recent several weeks, www.parents-and-kids.com discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.

“How to Maximize Children’s Learning Ability”? We discussed IQ, EQ, innate temperament…

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/09/how-to-maximize-childrens-learning-ability/

For parents of high school students:

“20 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on PSAT/SAT”

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/09/frequently-asked-questions-on-psat-sat/

For parents of preschoolers and kindergartners:

“Kids Love Coloring Pages”, give the little ones 2-3 page “homework” every day, let them keep busy…

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/2008/09/coloring-pages/

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Firstly, I want to say thank you very much from my heart for your support!

In the recent several weeks, we discussed on “Help children prepare college” in “Parenting Blog”.

Several interesting topics are

Career Trend may interest anybody

How can Parents Help Children to Prepare for College?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/08/how-can-parents-help-children-to-prepare-for-college/

Common Sources of Financial Aid

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/08/common-sources-of-financial-aid/

You are very welcome to share your idea and experience with us!

Looking forward to meeting you on the website!

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In the past several weeks, www.parents-and-kids.com discussed several interesting topics; I would like to share with you.

What are the Pros and Cons of Letting Teens Work?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2008/07/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-letting-teens-work/

Parents have different opinions, debating, looks hot……

Should Parents Allow Kids to Play Games?

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/topics/use-games-as-educational-purposes/

Nowadays, almost all the kids like playing games, boys, girls……

A Good Habit is a Key to Success

http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/topics/encourage-a-good-habit/

For a lot of successful people, part of their success is attributed to the goal they have a strong willing to pursue, but a larger portion goes to the habits they developed from early childhood……

Thank you very much for your support.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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www.parents-and-kids.com

English, Chinese, and Japanese speakers come together, share information, post problems, exchange ideas, and learn together. Our goal is to help parents and kids understand different culture, help each other, learn together and succeed in the global society!

Let’s join this exciting community!

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