How to Cultivate Your Child’s Imagination
Are you unknowingly teaching your child to feel disconnected?
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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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Is Forced Politeness Bad For Kids? Teach This Instead
Forced politeness in childhood—”Thanks! That’s just what I wanted!”—can deplete self-control. Let’s teach our children to internally express, rather than suppress, their emotions.
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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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How to Get the Most Out of Working with a Child Therapist
Getting through a divorce is hard enough for children. Enlisting the help of a therapist can go a long way toward making it easier for some kids.
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Working Fathers Need to Exercise
Working Fathers – You need to be (just a little bit) selfish with your time and exercise!
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Parenting Is Not About Controlling Your Child
I hear this often by parents who are frustrated with their child’s behaviors, their difficulty in not being able to make their child concede to their demands. But is parenting really a phase in your and your child’s life that’s about control, […]
Raising a Moral Child
What do you do when your child’s thoughtfulness doesn’t turn out so well? Affirmation and criticism are what’s needed.
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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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