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Parenting is a difficult job, however valuable parenting tips can make the job easier. Here, you will find many valuable articles and stories offering parenting help in today’s world. We share knowledge and skills necessary to successfully raise your children from birth through their senior year in high school. Use these resources for guidance on how to successfully raise, praise, discipline, teach and love your child.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
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Allowance Survey |
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
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Responsibility: Teaching Accountability for Their Actions |
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A person of character is responsible, diligent and accountable. A person of character considers the consequences of his or her actions before acting. |
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Monday, June 15, 2009 |
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Sleepless In Parentville! |
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Sleep deprivation. It’s something I’m sure you’ve experienced more than once since your baby came home. Losing sleep is part of your job description as a parent. And it doesn’t matter if you have a toddler or a teen. |
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 |
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Effective Parenting Techniques - How to use Time Out Successfully |
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Dr Phil in his effective parenting survey of 17,000 people found that the two top challenges facing parents were making punishment work and improving school performance. |
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 |
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Allowances |
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This is one of those topics hugely influenced by everyone’s own experience growing up. Kids seem to get so much in material rewards these days, an allowance almost seems like overkill. |
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 |
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Children And The Internet |
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Most parents understand the need to pay attention to what their kids are doing while on the computer. But how far do you go? What’s protecting your children and what’s violating their personal sense of privacy? Do teenagers deserve privacy? |
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Saturday, March 07, 2009 |
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High School And Beyond |
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By now, you’ve probably figured out my belief that parents have an important role to play in every stage of a child’s life. We often joke about “being done” when our child turns 18, finishes high school, goes off to college, gets a full time job, or some other adult transitional event. |
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
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Middle School Mania |
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When my husband and I moved to Austin, TX, our daughters were entering 6th and 4th grades. In choosing an area to live, we focused, as many parents do, on the school systems. We had two years left of elementary school for our youngest daughter, middle school for both and we also knew that we would still be in the same home when both our girls entered high school. So the question... |
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 |
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4th & 5th Graders, Taking Steps Away From Home & Parents |
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Although your children have been exposed to the world beyond your home in many different ways, it’s not until they reach this developmental stage that the exposure begins to really show. Much of this is positive. Kids in the 9-11 age range begin to really express their uniqueness. It’s during this time that kids begin being identified by their interests and activities. |
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 |
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K-3rd Graders |
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Tears, tears and more tears. This is definitely a time for tears. And if you’ve gone through this stage with your child, you know I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about the parents. |
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 |
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Two To Five Year Olds, The Pre-School Years |
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If I had to choose one period of time in the lives of my children I would love to relive, it would be this timeframe, two to five. Although many have characterized this time as full of strife and conflict ... |
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 |
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Ages 0 to 2 - The Building Block Years |
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Parents of infants know the value of the clothes dryer. Not the washing machine, not the vacuum cleaner, not even the refrigerator compares with the value of the clothes dryer. And they could care less if it even dries clothes! |
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
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What's At Stake? The Explosion of Kids Who Never Hear No |
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It’s reasonably safe to assume that children do best when parented without too many “extremes”. Kind of like Goldilocks, children need love and nurturance and discipline and guidance in “just right” proportions to grow to their potential. |
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
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You Can't Spoil A Baby, And Other Child Rearing Myths |
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You can’t spoil a baby. Of course you can. Babies (0-12 months) have obvious needs and ignoring those needs will get you one very cranky baby (and in more serious cases, a neglected baby). But how you meet your baby’s needs is really the foundation on which you will build your future parenting skills. |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
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Why We Spoil Our Kids |
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It’s hard to believe that any parent starts out planning to really spoil their child. Maybe if your last name is Trump or Hilton, you might expect differently. But for the most part, we all want children who grow up to be compassionate, independent, loving and appreciative people. |
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 |
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Compassionate, Independent, Loving, Children |
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Spend any time at a playground lately? How about a playscape at a local fast food joint? Ever visit a preschool, elementary, junior high or high school classroom? I guarantee that in all of those places frequented by both parents and kids, you will find among the pandemonium, compassionate, independent and loving children. |
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