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Helping to Form a Secure Attachment
Why do some infants form a secure attachment with adults, while others don't? Researchers believe that how easily an infant becomes attached depends on both the infant and the adults around her. Some...
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Block Parents of Canada
In 1968, following the disappearance and subsequent death of a young boy in London Ontario the Block Parent program was started by a group of women whose goal was to provide for the safety of children through a...
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Families in Chaos: Parenting a Child with O.D.D.
1. Life With The O.D.D. Child If you find that destiny has placed such a child in your care … to love - to raise and to nurture&hellip...
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Parenting a Teen
Educate Yourself Read books about puberty. Think back on your own. Remember your struggles with acne, your embarrassment at developing early - or late. Expect some mood changes in your typically sunny...
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Parenting Power Tools
Your perspective determines your experience in life, not your circumstances. What is one of the top complaints of parents today? There's always ten more things to do, and not enough time to do them! Given...
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Parenting Wars
It's unrealistic to expect to be totally in synch with your partner on every single parenting-related issue. After all, you'll face a smorgasbord of different parenting challenges before your children grow up...
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Parents as Lovers: How to "Babyproof" Your Sex Life
You already know how important it is to babyproof your home before your new baby arrives on the scene. What you might not realize is that it's...
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Replenish thyself: Steering clear of parent burnout
You wouldn’t dream of heading out on a lengthy road trip with your car’s gas tank running on empty. Odds are you’d run out of...
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Keeping Your Family Running Smoothly
I have to keep track of all the events in our house. Three schools and their inservice days, lessons, appointments and friends all need to be recorded. I have used all the systems: whiteboards, organizers...
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10 tips to help your family go green
With politicians and celebrities alike focusing on the environment, more and more teenagers are expressing interest in making a difference in the world around them. Besides encouraging your kids to reduce...
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Buying a Family Pet
Sooner or later, your child will probably ask for a pet. While owning a pet has many advantages such as teaching responsibility and fostering care and compassion in our children - pet owning is also an enormous...
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Family Meetings
Kim and Josh meet every week without fail. It's a date they never break. It is their family meeting; the time that they set aside for each other to discuss the week's happenings and deal with the joys and...
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Work and Family Balance
With so many two income and single parent families these days, parents are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve a balance between work, family and personal time. Regrettably, working parents try so hard...
