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Author :: Michael Grose  |
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| Article Title :: Promote independence with pocket-money |
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| In seminars I am often asked about pocket-money and whether it should be earned or only given when children behave well.
My belief is that children should receive pocket-money as their small share of the family-wealth just as they should share the workload at home. This is not to say that the family income is divided equally between all members. Rather, children are given a realistic sum of money, given their age, needs and ability to deal with money.
It makes sense to provide guidelines about spending including letting them know just what they are expected to buy. A child in lower primary school may get enough to purchase some sweets and one or two other items, whe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Susan Epstein |
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| Article Title :: A Teen Life Coach on the College Homesick Blues |
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| Leaving home and beginning your college career can be absolutely wonderful and extremely stressful. So whether you are a senior in high school preparing to go to college or you are at college looking for information about how to adjust to this huge change that has become your life, the following advice from an experienced teen life coaching may be for you.
You are entering college, a new world. You have left everything that is familiar to you behind, including, your family, friends, and school, community and your dog and cat. You may be an hour away by car or six hours away by plane. You are feeling out of sorts, lonely, too much time on your hands, awkward, etc.Â… Your roomm (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Toddler Skills for Personal Responsibility |
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| There are three skills that are very important for our little ones to learn early in their lives.
1) Children need to be able to fall asleep on their own. Infants and toddlers who are always rocked to sleep, or breastfed or bottle fed to sleep, learn to depend upon others for falling asleep and do not develop their own falling asleep mechanism. This can cause much distress for parents who go through the nightly nightmare of trying to get their infant or toddler to sleep. Instead of always picking up and rocking a crying little one, which only reinforces the childÂ’s dependency on you putting him or her to sleep, try patting the child and then leaving for a few minutes. If you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Margaret Paul, Ph. D. |
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| Article Title :: Are You Present With Your Children? |
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| How often are you fully and completely present when you are with your children? One of the greatest gifts we can give to our children is to be fully present with them. This can often be a big challenge.
When my three children were growing up, I worked full time as a counselor, wrote books, traveled on book tours, and pursued my passion as an artist – in addition to spending time with my husband. The only way I could be fully present when I was with my children was to set aside “time alone” with them. “Time alone” was daily quality time I spent with each of my children, doing whatever they wanted to do. During this time I did not answer the phone or deal with (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Mac Bledsoe |
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| Article Title :: The Ideas In Your Head Will Rule Your World |
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| It does not matter where the ideas come from, and it doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong, once an idea is in your head, it will rule your world.
Only a few months ago I gave a keynote address to 3,000 people at a regional parenting conference. In the talk I had mentioned the difficulties parents face with Drug abuse by their children. During the question and answer period following my talk a clergyman stood up in front of and offered, "I think we need to decriminalize drugs because drug use is a victimless crime." He was offering this as a counter point to my comments in my address about how damaging drugs are to American youth.
My first reaction to this (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Mac Bledsoe |
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| Article Title :: Back When I Was A Kid... |
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| We must eliminate from our minds a few phrases when we are making decisions about how we will be raising our kids. They are the sayings like: "When I was a kid..." and "If I had done that when I was a kid, my dad would have..." or "Back when we were in school they used to..."
Now, this may sound odd to you coming on the heels of our last article where we took the stand that as a nation, we need to "recapture the sound of our kids among us just like we used to up at old Fairview Hall." There is an important distinction here. As parents we must never allow ourselves to fall into the trap of using "because it was done before," or "it has always been that way," or "that was the way (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Mac Bledsoe |
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| Article Title :: Bike Riding And Present Wrapping |
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| A little examination of two behaviors, which are learned almost universally by all Americans, reveals some shocking information about the effectiveness of some of the teaching techniques that we choose to use to educate our children.
In the last six months we have been conducting a little informal survey as we travel across America, and it has yielded some very interesting and very thought provoking data. We hope that sharing this information with you might stimulate some serious thought about what you choose to teach your children and especially some thought about some of the techniques that we all use in teaching life's important lessons to the next generation.
Du (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Michael Grose |
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| Article Title :: 15 New Year's resolutions for parents |
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| Have you made your usual New Year resolutions? You know the resolutions where you turn over a new leaf to get fit, steer away from junk food and start a savings plan. While you are reflecting on past bad habits and setting new directions for your personal life consider taking stock of your parenting as well.
A word of warning -- you will probably feel a little inadequate as you look back on some of your past practices. If you are like most parents you nag your kids too much, over-react when they mess up and you probably regret not spending enough time with them. DonÂ’t be too hard on yourself. Not only is parenting the worldÂ’s hardest job but children arenÂ’t born with (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Mac Bledsoe |
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| Article Title :: Heroes |
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| In today's society like in the past, kids have heroes. This is a good thing. However, in modern society it seems the process of selecting heroes has become rather muddled or confused. Fame should not necessarily make a person a hero. We have experienced this from both sides: first as parents of two sons who chose heroes while growing up, and now with two sons who have distinguished themselves as outstanding athletes who are often the object of hero worship.
Please hang in here with us on this one so there is no misinterpretation of what we are attempting to say with this article. We do believe that both our sons are worthy heroes. Both are moral and admirable people with a stron (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: mansi gupta |
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| Article Title :: Kids and money guide |
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| As the name of our website suggests we help you in managing your finances when you think it is time that you had a baby but are worried about the cost and responsibility of a new life on your shoulders and pockets.
Expecting a baby soon? Worried how youÂ’ll be able to manage in the limited finances after itÂ’s born? Worried about your childÂ’s higher education? Well, we have the solution to your problems. At teachmoneytochildren.com, not only do we help you sort out your financial problems but we also explain as to how to go about explaining to your child the need to save money for a rainy day!
Soon you may be incurring expenditure for diapers, baby soap, c (read full article) |
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