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Author :: Jean Tracy  |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Activity: Use These 3 Time Out Twists |
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| Are you tired of arguing with your kids? Do you wish your kids would take responsibility for their actions? Here’s an easy way. Let’s find out about Time Out (T.O.) using my 3 special twists. You can easily use them with kids from ages 3 to 11 years old.When my boys were growing up, I used T.O. often. If they sassed, snuck out to play without doing their chores, or fought with each other, they went to T.O. First, I’ll describe T.O. Then I’ll add my 3 special twists.Use Time Out when your child misbehaves:Place your child in a boring room (no TV, computers, or toys.)
Use a timer and set one minute for each year of your child's age. For example, wind th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Troy Rutter |
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| Article Title :: 10 Tips To Protect Your Child Actor |
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| If your child is involved in the entertainment industry, whether in small-town theatre productions or movies and television shows, protecting their welfare is a top priority for parents. Here are ten simple steps you can do today to help protect your child from rabid fans and predators.1. Stop using your child’s social security number on their resume.It use to be commonplace to use a social security number on a resume so producers, directors and casting directors could refer to you as a number when you go in for an audition. This is no longer the case. When your child signs in for an audition, there will be a spot for their SAG number. If they are not in the Screen Act (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kelly Nault |
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| Article Title :: What Kids Buy-With Allowance, You Can Teach Positive Saving and Spending Habits |
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| It’s an all too common scenario:
Child says, “I want that.” Mom replies, “I don’t’ have any money.” Child, trying
to be helpful, quickly replies, “That’s OK, just use your card.”
Unfortunately, the child in this story usually equates swiping the
plastic—whether a credit card or ATM card—with “free money.” Without realizing
it, many moms are teaching their children to become future “spendaholics.” How?
By overusing the credit card—and by acting like their children’s personal ATM
machine.
What kids buy with their allowance teaches them good, solid financial principles
that will stick with them the rest of thei (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kelly Nault |
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| Article Title :: The Ups and Downs of Childrearing: America Is Riding the "Pendulum of Parenting" |
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| The “pendulum of parenting” is a common obstacle that prevents many moms (and
dads!) from accessing the ultimate parent within. When something flies out of
your mouth that you wish you could take back, when you feel taken advantage of,
or when you think your children don’t appreciate all that you do, there’s a good
chance you’re on this “pendulum of parenting” or “roller coaster of
childrearing.”
America seems to have particular problems with this pendulum. As a direct result
of refusing to use “outdated” parenting strategies from earlier generations,
many moms find themselves swinging between two extremes: the “Mussolina Mom” and
the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kelly Nault |
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| Article Title :: Proactive Strategies For Preventing Behavior Problems |
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| Parenting Question“At my recent baby shower, one of my favorite gifts was your book When You’re
About To Go Off The Deep End, Don’t Take Your Kids With You. I absolutely
love that it is so easy-to-read. This may be a silly question but, as a mom who
has not yet given birth, I am wondering if there are any proactive strategies
for preventing behavior problems down the road that I could start focusing on or
learning now. Thoughts? Thanks again for your book!“—Soon-To-Be Momma
Positive Parenting Tip for Preventing Behavior Problems
Dear Soon-To-Be Momma:
Good for you for wanting to find proactive strategie (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kelly Nault |
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| Article Title :: The Secret To Changing Behavior And Maintaining The Change |
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| Parents need not search any further for the secret to changing their children's
behavior and maintaining positive changes in their home. I have taught hundreds
of parents how to motivate children to want to be well-behaved. Readers of my
book When You’re About To Go Off The Deep End, Don’t Take Your Kids With You
and thousands of my audience members are amazed to find the secret to
changing behavior is much easier than they thought.
Fundamental Strategies for Changing BehaviorMany parents taking control of young children's behavior find it particularly
challenging to change the patterns they have established in terms of acting and
reac (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Dawn Miller |
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| Article Title :: Relocation: When the Other Parent Wants to Move |
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| It's amazing how the course of one meal can alter your life. A few months ago one of my stepmom friends and her husband were eating dinner with their stepkids, when the littlest one chirped up, “Mommy says we're going to move away and have lots of fun.”After nearly choking, the s-mom and her dear one were shocked to find out that the bio-mom had serious intentions of leaving the area. She had even been house-hunting several states accompanied by her oldest daughter – who now sheepishly stared at the floor.What do you do when your highly structured world of shared custody, scheduled play dates and negotiated truces with an ex-spouse appears to be crumbling? Family court (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Dawn Miller |
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| Article Title :: The Myth of the Good Divorce |
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| Divorce is hard on kids. It’s not exactly news. But this is a groundbreaking revelation, judging from the fawning press coverage and attention by the New York Times and the Washington Post to a new book, "Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce."Much has been made of the study’s implications – with pundits and reporters alike crowing it shows that the "good divorce" has become a rhetorical sponge for sopping the guilt of adults who divorce too easily.Authored by Elizabeth Marquardt, herself a child of divorce, the book is based on 1,500 phone surveys with young adults ages 18-35. Seventy-one people in four parts of the country were also interviewed. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Dan Ohler |
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| Article Title :: News, Views, and Blues of Change-Do You Know the 5 Ways to "Re" Your Life? |
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| “Read it, read it, read all about it. There’s change cultivated in rural Northern Alberta.”Change? I see it all around me. Do you?The frost has killed the plants in the garden, and the leaves on the trees have changed colour and are falling to the ground. The geese are gathering to fly south, the hummingbirds have “hummed-off”, and the American tourists are hot-trotting their way home.In every community the youth have begun their migration as well – from home to school, and then back again – five days a week.It’s that time of the year.You may be thinking, “So what? This happens every year.”This fall is (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kelly Nault |
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| Article Title :: Babysitter Policies For Parents |
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| Babysitters play a crucial role in the life of a family: they give parents some
much needed freedom. Parenting 24/7 can put any mom or dad into the “deep end”
of parenting. When parents are working out at the gym, taking a class that
inspires them, spending time with close friends, going on "dates" or are
watching adult movies together, they are filling up their energy tanks so they
can have more to give to their children. Quality time away from your kids is
just as important as the quality time you have together as a family.
In my book When You’re About To Go Off The Deep End, Don’t Take Your Kids
With You, I state: “Self care for moms (and dads (read full article) |
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