Mindfulness Parenting
In addition to all its benefits for health and well-being, mindfulness can help you respond better to parenting challenges. Here’s a simple 5-step plan for getting started.
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Now They See Them, Then They Don’t: Imaginary Companions
What parents need to know about children’s make-believe pals and the many roles they play.
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Ten Self-Care Tips for Parents
Our work as parents is to care for our kids. We spend considerable time helping them learn self-care to manage stress. Yet we often fail to find ways to care for ourselves.
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Six Ways to Help A Child Who Has A Toxic Friend
It is critical that a parent possess the tools to identify a toxic friendship and assist the child in escaping the abusive union before irreparable damage is done.
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Promoting Empathy in Our Kids (and in Ourselves)
Empathy enables us to relate to others and motivates us to help those in need. Unfortunately, empathy is on the decline. Here’s how to promote empathy in our kids and ourselves.
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Adolescence and the Age of more “Talking Back”
As more adolescent independence grows, the teenager tends to become less quietly compliant with parental demands and limits, and more willing to take parents on in disagreement
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Teen Phone Use 101
Caring, supportive parents assume their teen will sort out how to use their new phone well – and then that phone seems to consume everything.
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Rethinking Intelligence: Saving our Different-Minded Kids
Have you ever wondered why so many different-minded entrepeneurs did so poorly in school? Maybe its finally time to rethink our ideas about intelligence.
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When Both a Child and Partner Have ADHD but You Don’t
A concerned mom from a family with two ADHD and two non-ADHD family members tries to figure out how to keep her family happy and healthy.
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Understanding Your Teen’s Time Management Anxiety Mode
Five common time management anxiety modes to help you understand your teen.
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