All About Parenting |
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Reduce Stress and Enjoy Your Kids More
The Hardest Job in the World There's a new person living in your house -- a demanding new person who, though pretty small, seems to take up the whole house. And in between doing the new baby's laundry...
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Learning From Your Mistakes
Becoming an effective parent entails making a series of educated guesses and seeing what works. In doing so, we inevitably make mistakes. There will be times we're rigid when we should be loose, loose when...
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When Anger Hurts Your Kids
I recently recommended a book to a client who was concerned about the effect her anger was having on her kids. I assured her that this book did not point fingers nor induce further guilt. When Anger Hurts your...
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Hidden Messages
Casual Remarks It's a curious affliction: the tendency to talk about one's children in the most brutally honest and hurtful ways without realizing that the cherished subjects of the offensive comments are...
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Working Towards a Balance of Needs
Between kids and step-kids, Paula is a mother nine times over. She is also a professional fund-raiser, writer, and film producer. One afternoon, in a rare moment without children, she talked about the conflicts...
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Parenting 101: Parenting Skills Workshop
Welcome to the internet parent education workshop. This skills workshop will help you as parents to discipline kids from toddlers to teens. It will help you to encourage children and adolescents to feel...
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How Can I do Something for Children?
These are difficult times for families. Vast economic and social changes over the past twenty years mean that most parents are struggling as never before to juggle jobs, household work and family life. Because...
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Ten Parenting Paradoxes
"Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person...
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Parenting in the Home Office
When my husband and I launched our home-based business a few years back, the local newspaper sent a reporter over to take a picture of my partner and I spending "quality time" in our home office with...
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No "Butts" About It
In spite of the powerful and mixed messages our children receive from the Internet, media, and their peers, parents still have the biggest influence on whether or not our children smoke. Research has shown that...
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The Pitter Patter of Puppy Paws
I swore I'd never do it. After the kitten fiasco, I said, "That's it! No more pets." But, I missed that little kitten as much as anyone. Then, one night, I had this dream about a beagle puppy. I...
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Do You Recognize Your Parenting Style?
There are as many different ways of raising children as there are children. Diana Baumrind's research (1967, 1971, 1977 1979; Baumrind & Black 1967) has found three parenting (caregivers) styles. Are you a...
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Family Values and Power Struggles: Your Competent Child
We are at a unique historical crossroads. Across many different societies, the basic values that secured the foundation of family life for more...
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How Do Children Learn Values?
Every interaction with children provides an opportunity to teach values. While no parent tries to make every kiss goodnight a lesson, it's useful to think about the opportune times for teaching in families...
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Choose how you parent
Are you concerned about your parenting skills? If so, there are things you can do. Parenting skills are generally learned through our early life experiences with our own caregivers. The process is called "role...
