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Author :: Judy H. Wright  |
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| Article Title :: 15 Ways to Help Kids Like Themselves |
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| 1. Tell me something you like about yourself? Help your child to focus on her many strengths.2. Reinforce the positives. Give praise, recognition, a special privilege or increased
responsibility for a job well done.3. Define limits and rules clearly. A family council is an excellent place to discuss, explain
and get a sense of ownership to the rules. Discuss what consequences will follow if the
rules are not followed. Don’t have a lot of rules, maybe four or five, but be consistent at
following them.4. Give your children responsibility to make the house a home. Everyone in the family
should be responsible for some household chores daily. Responsibility makes them fe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: MaryLynne White |
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| Article Title :: The Secret, Unconscious Game Children and Parents Play Where No One Wins! |
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| Did you know there’s a game children and parents play all the time and yet, neither of them knows about it? This article discusses this unconscious, no-win game children play with their unknowing parents; how points get scored; why the game isn’t a good thing to play, and how parents can stop the game.I wish I could tell you the name of the game. It's a secret and has no name. Parents and children don’t even know they’re playing the game. The purpose of the game is simple; children play it to get their way. The game itself is based on a point system. Whoever has the most points has the most power and control in the parent-child relationship. The minute a child asks th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Linda Milo |
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| Article Title :: Parents Need to Vent Anger! Try These 4 Steps to Serenity |
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| Parents are losing their self-control to anger. A friend called me today and told me a very troubling story. She told me on a T.V. news program she heard of a mother who was driving with her four year old child. The mother became angry with her child and couldn’t cope anymore with her child’s misbehaving. Finally the mother abruptly braked, stopping the car on a busy highway. She pulled over to the side of the highway, opened the door and pushed her child out of the car, slammed the door and just drove away! Luckily, someone saw this poor kid on the side of the highway, stopped and spoke to the child, had the police come by and the mother was eventually found. Unbelievable … (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Caren Bugay |
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| Article Title :: March of the Penguins - A Fun Learning Tool |
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| Everyone loves penguins. And now, everyone has a chance to see how penguins live in the highly entertaining documentary March of the Penguins. No need to tell the kids it’s educational.Beyond just taking your kids to see the show, there are lots of fun activities you can do before and after the presentation to enhance your enjoyment of the film.Learn more about the penguins and the land in which they live at the movie’s web site. There you can find a Kids Activity Guide, a National Geographic Activity Guide and coloring pages. You can also hear to sounds of the penguins and watch video clips.At the National Geographic web site, you can observe penguins and other a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Your Teenager: Truth or Lie? |
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| Attention all parents of teen-agers. Here is an important, groundbreaking and even shocking bulletin for you:According to research conducted at the prestigious-sounding Josephson Institute of Ethics in, of course, California, here are two startling pieces of information:1) 92 percent of teens surveyed admitted to lying to their parents at least once in the last year.2) 78 percent of teens surveyed admitted to lying to their teachers at least once in the past year.Have you gotten up off the floor yet?Please forgive my sarcasm, but to put it in the language of the age group surveyed:Well, duh.If you are the parent of a teen-ager, I doubt you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Ann Marie Parisi |
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| Article Title :: Why Fathers Are Such a Necessary Component in the Raising of Their Children. |
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| The first year of a child’s life is the most crucial time for Dad’s to be present and loving and hugging his child. According to clinicians in the first year of birth babies relate to behaviors not language.The most important thing a father can do for his children is to develop a strong relationship with their mother and with his children. Relationship is what separates the strong family from the dysfunctional family. A child needs a strong relationship with his/her father far more than he/she needs their father’s resources.Children need to have boundaries set by their father in order to know he cares. Father’s need not be their child’s best friend, particularly (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Frank McGinty |
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| Article Title :: Over-Indulgence And Over-Attentiveness - Two Dangers Parents Must Avoid! |
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| We're all familiar with the over-indulgent parent. But
there's another parenting practice that can be equally
harmful: over-attentiveness.It's possible to be one or the other - or in some cases,
both!Let's look first of all at the differences.Over-IndulgenceI'm sure you've come across the stereotype: Parents who
constantly ply their kids with material goods and treats of
every kind, and who will go to any length to ensure their
little darlings want for nothing, but have the biggest and
best of everything.This behaviour is always prompted by a certain lack or need
within the parents. They often dote on their kids, but what
such parents are really (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Joe Martin |
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| Article Title :: Getting Through to Your Teenager |
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| Have you ever watched your teenager make a mistake (that you’ve made yourself) after you’ve warned them at least a thousand times? Is there anything more frustrating as a parent?Well, this is somewhat typical in most “normal” households across America. We (parents) screw up, tell our children about it, and what do they do? They go out and repeat the same mistake. It makes you question your own gene pool.In actuality, the problem isn’t with the teenager (at least not all of it), the problem is in our approach to teaching our teenager the lesson we want them to learn. In a sense, we act just as crazy sometimes; we teach them using the same strategies that didn’t wo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Caren Bugay |
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| Article Title :: Math Facts - Try Some Fun Ways to Learn Them |
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| Memorizing math facts is a necessary part of elementary school. Flash cards and repetitive chanting have their place, but, for my children, were pure drudgery. Frustrated by their lack of interest in practicing their math facts, I have searched for ways to make memorizing math facts more fun.Our favorite math web site, Aplusmath is an easy to use site offering a worksheet generator, online flashcards and games including Matho, Concentration and Hidden Pictures. Matho combines both bingo and math facts in an exciting timed game. Or, match the math problem to the answer in concentration. Discover beautiful photographs by solving math problems in the hidden pictures game.Both o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jason Hill |
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| Article Title :: Coping with the Stress of Moving Home and Childrens Concerns |
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| Moving house can be an emotional experience for adults, so imagine how much more unsettling it can be for children who don't really understand what's going on.There are many things to consider when relocating, none more important than the impact of moving on your children.REMAIN POSITIVE:The secret is to remain positive.Most often the reason for moving is a happy one, such as a new home or job promotion, which generates excitement and compensates for the inconvenience of packing up and relocating.However if the move is associated with an unhappy event it can be hard to keep a positive attitude in front of the children.Children feed off the emotion (read full article) |
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