All They Want To Be Is Rich, Famous And Look Good!
Overindulging children leads to External rather than Internal life goals resulting in a greater risk of unhappiness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and intimacy problems.
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Raising Body Confident Kids
How can we raise body confident kids? Read on for how we can break the body-shame cycle from being passed down to our children.
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Working Together to Parent a Child With Special Needs
Do you have a co-parenting alliance, or are you at odds with your other half?
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Boredomtunity: Why Boredom Is the Best Thing for Our Kids
My kids felt perfectly justified following me around and haranguing me, even though they knew it was against our rules. Why? Because they were bored, and boredom is the worst.
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Helping Perfectionist Kids Learn to Tolerate Mistakes
Kids often hear, “Mistakes are part of learning.” But if they have perfectionist tendencies, they don’t believe it. Here’s a way to help kids be more accepting of their mistakes.
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What We Get Wrong About Children’s Self-Esteem
Real self-esteem isn’t about loving ourselves; it’s about being able to let go of the question, “Am I good enough?” by connecting with something bigger than ourselves.
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Keeping Your Children Safe from Sexual Abuse
Five Things that Parents can do to Protect their Children from Sexual Abuse in the New Year
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9 Strategies to Avoid Passing Your Fears On to Your Kids
Afraid of dogs? Flying? Injections? Spiders? Generally anxious? How to keep your children from developing the same anxieties.
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8 Amazing Ways Teens Change as they Become Young Adults
Here’s what to expect from your teens as they become young adults.
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The Science of Spanking
Spanking has been a common form of discipline for decades. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that parents don’t spank their kids. Here’s the research on why.
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