Three Common Mistakes in Parenting
Failing to give children family responsibilities, being a “friend” instead of an authority figure, and letting the culture raise your kids are 3 avoidable parenting errors.
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How Change Drives the Parent-Adolescent Relationship
Managing to stay caringly and communicatively connected as adolescence redefines their relationship is what parent and teenager need to do
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What Kind of Sports Parent Am I?
Parents need to ask themselves some hard questions about their role in the good and bad of youth sports.
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Restoring Children’s Play: Creating Places for Social Play
To enable children to play freely with others, we must create spaces safe enough for today’s nervous parents, yet free from adult control. Here is a list of possibilities.
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Coping With Divorce
No matter who you are or who wanted the divorce, you can still feel like your life is upside down.
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When You’re Breaking Up, Don’t Break Your Kids Hearts
Children are innocent beings, and it is our job to protect them. Yet sometimes people actually use their children to further their own emotional agendas.
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Four Boundaries Children Need to Understand
For parents who need help explaining personal boundaries, interactions with others and sexual consent, this tool can help.
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Why Is My Child Lying?
If your kid is a liar, there may be some ways to address it.
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Study Reveals Effects of Soft Drinks on Teen Mental Health
What can sodas do to your teen’s mental health? A new study reveals findings that can be crucial for a parent.
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How to Raise Helpful Children
How can you encourage children to help? Asking them simply “to help,” rather than to “be helpers,” leads children to keep trying to do their part when things get tough.
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