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Encourage Your Children to Try New Endeavors
Are you a parent who encourages your child to try new things such as learning how to play the piano, the guitar, Taekwondo, hockey...
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When Divorce is Unavoidable
No one goes through divorce school when they’re getting married...
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Don’t Do a Victory Dance When Your Child Says You Were Right
When I met with Heidi, she told a different story. Yeah her parents had made her transfer, she said, but that part didn’t bother her...
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Three Ways To Create A Healthy New Normal After The Empty Nest
“He’s been gone two months and three days.” Then it became, “Five months and 17 days.”
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3 Reasons Why Your Teenager Rejects Your Excellent Advice
Ever wonder why your teen takes a pass on your advice? Especially when you know for a fact that it’s really good? Here are three reasons why teenagers might look elsewhere for solutions or support, or nowhere at all. It can explain those times when they stick with a bad decision even though they know it’s bad, or insist on being right even when it flies in the face of all reason. Are they being difficult or defiant? Probably not. Often they’re just trying to save face after h
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Parenting A Successful Child
There are as many theories about raising children as there are children. Most parents will admit that they had no idea of what raising...
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Raising Resilience: Parenting Tips that Go the Distance
Every loving parent wants childhood to be a positive experience for their kids...
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Help Your Child Build Healthy Reward Pathways
When you reward bad behavior, you literally wire your child’s brain to repeat the bad behavior. No parent intends to do that, but it happens so easily. When you know how, you will reward only good behavior, and give your child a good start. Imagine that your child grabs a cookie from someone. You tell them it’s not nice, but you let them keep the cookie. “Just this once.” A young brain learns from the cookie more than your words Cookies trigger dopamine, the brain’s reward ch
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The Secret Advantage of Chores for Toddlers
Does your toddler do chores around the house? I know, I know, you’re probably thinking what could a toddler possible do? They can hardly walk, talk or blow their own nose. How could they possible be responsible for helping around the house? Chores from the youngest age are not only possible; they also have secret advantages. Why So Young? Starting chores at a really young age sets the expectation that everyone in the family should pitch in, at least to the best of each pers
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Confidence or Arrogance: What Kind of Child Are You Raising?
We all know the feeling…the moment of pride when someone notices how outspoken or articulate our child is...
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Teaching Kids Respect
By Anne Leedom There is a big question making the rounds among the parents at my daughter’s class. Should the kids refer to the parents’ friends as “Mr. Jones” or “Mrs. Smith”, rather than using their first names? I was quite shocked, having come from a home where it would have been unheard of to refer to one of my parent’s friends by their first name. This was reserved for only the closest of family friends and relatives, and even they always had “Aunt” or “Uncle” in front o
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How To Raise A Loving Not Manipulative Child
1. Establish Ground Rules
Establish ground rules in your home and in your family relationships. Be clear about the kind of family you are and how you expect your children to treat those within and outside of your family. “We treat others with respect.” “We do not mock or make fun of others.” “We stand up for kids who are mistreated.” 2. Model Compassion
Emphasize caring, compassion and giving. Manipulative children can be self-centered, raise your children to care about the
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When Mental Health Issues Touch Your Family
Divorce rates continue to rise and families can be destroyed. In some cases, couples can move forward and handle child rearing and financial issues with minimal disruption. Antisocial Personality Disorder is defined as: A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years old, as indicated by 3 or more of the following: failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing a
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Getting Your Kids to WriteThank You Notes
It's not easy to get your children to sit down and comprise thank you notes? You feel like you are pulling teeth? Consider the following tips and make that important time less stressful for you and your family. Tip #1
Model the message. Write thank you notes yourself. Make sure your children see you do this. Say things like, “I’m going to write my thank you notes now. It’s fun for me to let others know how much I appreciate their gifts.” Never, ever let children hear you com
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The Do’s and Don’t of Teaching Kids Self Control
Experts tell us that self control is one of the most important virtues kids need to do well in life...
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Keeping Your Kids Safe from Sexting
By Erik Fisher, PhD Why is this happening, and what do you need to be aware of to keep you and your kids safe? Generation Reality So many kids in this generation have grown up in the age of reality shows, and so many of them will do almost anything for attention and to try to fit in. We have had Survivor, Fear Factor, Big Brother, and Jackass grace the screens of our television, movie theaters and internet for almost a decade, and the ability for children, tweens and teens to
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Five Critical Beliefs to Instill in our Kids
There has been a strong movement in recent years on raising caring kids...
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