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Author :: Carol Shepley  |
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| Article Title :: Exams Cause Stress For Parents Too |
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| When it comes to exams, or indeed any academic work, parents feel that they should be encouraging their teen to try hard and do well. The problem is that in trying to achieve this, many parents end up causing stress either for themselves, their teen or both.So what causes this stress? Basically, it boils down to one key belief; a belief held by many parents and one that is reinforced by most schools.To do well you must work hardConsequently parents spend much of their time trying to get their teens to word hard. The sad fact is that there are some students who could work hard for the rest of their life and still achieve only mediocre re (read full article) |
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Author :: Samantha Gregory-Applewhite |
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| Article Title :: Single Mother Sanity Savers Pt. 1 |
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| Being a single mother is no easy task. I know. I was a single mother of two children less than six months ago, so I can say with some authority that being a single mother is a beast. It can drive you crazy if you let it. The insanity is not just that you have to raise children alone and be mother and father. The craziness gets worse when you add a full-time job, not enough money, societal pressure, not to mention being blamed for all of society’s ill. How does a single mother remain graceful under pressure? How does she keep from wielding a knife at the next person that tell her “it’s not that bad”? What keeps her from pulling her hair out at a minimum, and at a maximum keep from (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Chick Moorman |
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| Article Title :: Dealing with Lying: The Do's and Don'ts |
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| Jason Roberts listened to his son's explanation of the missing cookies and then called him a liar. Brenda Taylor thought her three-year-old's lies were cute, so she ignored them. Yee Chen told her daughter that if she told the truth this time, she would let it go.While all of these parents love their children and want them to develop truth telling as a virtue, each violated one of the major do's and don'ts of dealing with lying. Read on to find out how.1. Do understand that all children lie. Dogs bark. Cats meow. And children lie. Your neighbors' children lie. Your sister's children lie. And yes, your own children lie.2. Don't confuse exaggeration with lying. Young ch (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jean Tracy |
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| Article Title :: Guide Your Kids! This 3-D Map Leads to Character |
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| A tall, weary-looking mother with glasses, walked into my counseling office with her 10-year-old-daughter. The mother frowned at me and sat down. “Oh-oh!” I thought. “Why are you here?” I inquired.“Jessica’s been shoplifting. I want you to stop her.” Jessica flinched then stared at her mother.“What happened?” I asked.Jessica, a soft-spoken child with short curly hair and dark brown eyes, proceeded to tell how she had stolen a pack of gum, a candy bar, and a plastic toy from the local grocery store. She glanced cautiously at her mother.I asked her mother, “Will you please sit in the waiting room?” When she left, I turned to Jessica, “What (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: C. Bailey-Lloyd |
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| Article Title :: Drinking and Driving: Will Your Child Become a Statistic? |
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| Just two days ago, another 15-year old child was added to the overwhelming statistics of drunk-driving, related deaths. One minute, he's full of vitality and attending our local high school, the next his unsuspecting parents are identifying him in a local morgue. The harsh reality of this brutal scenerio is sometimes very difficult to comprehend."Where did I go wrong?" "Didn't I talk enough with my child?" "I thought he knew better..." "I assumed he was just at a friend's house..."These, and various other queries, are all similar questions parents tend to ask themselves after an incident or accident involving DUI or DWI (Driving Under the Influence, or Driving (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Todd Appleman |
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| Article Title :: Summer Marks the Time to Remember Active Supervision Around Family Swimming Pools |
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| LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2005) — With Memorial Day weekend, and summer fast approaching, EMS, first responders, and water safety advocates, are bracing for the unthinkable – the unfortunate drowning accidents in backyard swimming pools that annually claim the lives of nearly 500 children under the age of five, and an estimated 2,800 “near-drowning” incidents.1The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, for every child who drowns, six more children are involved in “near-drowning” incidents – accidents that can lead to permanent neurological damage, life-long disabilities, and leaving the parents with catastrophic medical costs and years of recovery and therapy. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: B. Williams |
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| Article Title :: Would You Know if Your Child Were Being Bullied? 4 Tips to Keep Them From Becoming a Victim |
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| The 21st Century Problem in Schools: Bullying, and How to Keep Your Kid From Being a VictimChildren bullying other children has been an issue since there were children, and though it has often been downplayed as "part of growing up," it has always had potentially serious implications from an emotional perspective.But these days, due to a host of factors such as our society's glorification of celebrity and being popular, violence in mass media, and easy access to deadly weapons, the implications can be especially risky. At the extreme, in many of the school shootings over the last decade, the perpetrators were withdrawn students who had a history of being bullied. Though stil (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: B. Williams |
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| Article Title :: How to Talk to Your Kids About Suicide: New Study Says it May Make Them Less Likely to Consider It! |
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| This year alone, 1,600 teenagers aged 15 to 19 will die from committing suicide. Suicide among kids, once a rarity, is now a growing concern in America, and it appears that one of the best ways to keep your kids from doing it is to be a nosy parent.In other words, simply talking to your kids about suicide may make them less likely to consider it, according to a study in the April 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association. This is contrary to a popular belief that talking to kids about suicide will only implant the idea in their heads.Nowadays, kids already know about suicide-and yearly over 3 million kids between the ages of 15 and 19 seriously think about suicide. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Aaron Lazar |
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| Article Title :: Pipe Down! |
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| Life is funny.My twenty-year-old daughter, Melanie, has a her new summer job as a nanny for three small children. She’s an aspiring operatic soprano who was whisked off to a rich suburb near Manhattan the day after her finals had ended at the Eastman School of Music. Her mother and I miss her dreadfully. Thank God for our Family Talk Plan!Last night, she called home and as we discussed my upcoming book signing at Borders, she called out, “You two need to pipe down and go to sleep! I don’t want to hear one more peep out of you!”I doubled over with laughter. The tears streamed down my cheeks. The tone and emphasis was identical to my own words uttered nig (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Wilhelmina Jones |
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| Article Title :: A New Dad To Be? Deer in the headlights? |
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| Ok. So you’re a dad to be. If you’re like most men, this can be a scary situation. We go through so many emotions and sometimes we don’t know what to think or how to react. Some men get very enthusiastic but then still go through the emotional roller coaster.Take heart, your not alone. You’re experiencing what man before you has experienced for thousands of years. You’d think that by now a job description would have been past down through the ages and to some degree it has through being raised by your parents.The first thing that you should know is that your wife or girlfriend is going to go through hormonal changes. There is nothing that you can do about th (read full article) |
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