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Parenting Your Teenager: How to Have a Great School Year
Q: With the school year just beginning, what can we do as parents to help make this a successful year for our teenager and our family? Are there any specific things we can do?
A: Great question. Fortunately there are many things you can do to make...
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Parenting Your Teenagers: 4 Crucial Points for Parents of Teens
1) Parents need to realize the trap that is being set when their kids asks, "Well, why can't I (fill in the blank)." Many well intentioned parents then proceed to give a well reasoned response to the question and then wonder why the kid blows up a...
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Parenting Your Teenager: 6 Myths About Parenting Teens
MYTH: All teens have to rebel, and the teen years will be miserable years for a family.
REALITY: Teens do have to separate from their parents and families. That's good -- otherwise kids would be living at home when they are 35.
They do, however, h...
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Parenting Your Teenager: Top 10 Things to Never Believe From Your Teenager
1) It's not my (pot, beer, cigarettes, etc.), I'm just keeping it for someone else.
Yeah right. The next question for the parent to ask is, "If you are keeping this for your friend, what is your friend keeping for you?" One of the reasons parents c...
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Parenting Your Teenager: Universal Laws for Blending Families
Q: I’ve never written a letter like this before because I’ve never been faced with a situation like this before. I’m getting married soon for the second time and have two kids that I’m bringing to the marriage, plus, my wife to be has two kids as w...
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Laws for Parents of Toddlers & Preschoolers
The Law of the Beast - As parents we need to keep in mind that we are raising our teenager while we raise our toddler. They are essentially the same beast.
The Law of CPR - Having little to do with cardio-pulminary-resuscitation, the law of CPR sta...
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Parenting Your Teenager: Universal Laws for Parents of Teenagers
Law of Belonging - One of the greatest needs of teenagers (after music, screen time and the phone) is a strong sense of belonging. They need to feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves. And guess what? If they do not get this ...
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Parenting Your Teenager: FAQs from Parents of Teenagers
Q: My husband and I are at a loss as to what to do with our two teenagers. They have been great kids and all of a sudden it seems like we are in teenage hell! We keep fighting to see the kids we once knew, and they keep fighting to get their own wa...
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Parenting Your Teenager: Who-What-Where-When
Many parents seem to be more than a little confused about what they have a right to know about their teens.
The question I often get goes something like this: "We want to know where our 16-year-old son is going to be, and who he is with. He makes i...
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Parenting Your Teenager: Trust or Bust
It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
"Mom, can I go to the mall with my friend Jenny?"
No, not after you came home late last night.
Well everybody else gets to.
I don't care what everybody else gets to do, you can't
You just don't trust me
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I Deserve Combat Pay!
That's what one parent said to me a few years ago when I asked what brought them in to my office. They went on to say that it felt like what was once a pleasant family environment had become a battle ground. They weren't exactly sure how they got ...
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The Teenager & the Gorilla
“Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way?”
Lee Adams, Bye Bye Birdie
Q: A parent writes in to ask, "You write a lot about the difference between controlling and managing teenagers. What's the difference........., and how do we do it ...
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6 Point Plan for Managing Teenagers
“Trying to control a teenager is like trying to put pants on a gorilla." - Jeff Herring
Q: We are having increasing difficulty dealing with curfews in our home. Our teenagers keep wanting to stay out later and later and it’s hard for us to trust th...
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Helping Kids See Their Big Picture
As a father of five daughters, as well as being an educator
within my area's school district, one of the most difficult
experiences that I have found is getting kids to see their 'Big
Picture'. I reference the 'Big Picture', as it relates to on...
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To TRUST Is A Choice
When your teenage son tells you that he is going to a friend's house to spend Saturday evening, how do you know he is where he tells you? When your daughter wakes up on a school day morning complaining of not feeling well, and you know she has a m...
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Peaceful Parenting Success Story IV
Peggy, mother of 16-year old Shauna and 11-year old Stephanie recently sent an e-mail sharing her success learned from Peaceful Parenting®.
Last fall I heard your Peaceful Parenting® presentation sponsored by my daughter's middle school PTA. I ask...
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How Do I Handle This As A Peaceful Parent? V
In both your lecture and book you emphasize the importance of making dreary tasks fun as well as negotiations with your children. Does everything need to be fun? Is everything supposed to turn into a negotiation? Can I ever just say "Do what I a...
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Peaceful Parenting Musings III
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, and also a source of weariness beyond description. -Josephine W. Johnson
Somewhere between wakefulness and sleep I became aware of my dry scratchy throat...
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Peaceful Parenting Primer
Example #1:
At the end of a long, difficult day you are in the kitchen working hard to prepare and get dinner on the table. Not only are you feeling tired, you are fully aware that everyone needs food before one or more of your children experience...
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A Peaceful Parenting Success Story IV
Mary Beth, mother of two teenagers and one preteen knows the temptation and perils of engaging in too many unnecessary battles with her children.
“When all of my children reached their adolescent years it seemed as though my life consisted of one c...
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How Do I Handle This As A Peaceful Parent? No. IV
My 6-year old son Sean constantly interrupts. I know this is a common complaint because I hear other mothers of young children complaining of the same thing. My husband and I have explained and discussed with Sean the importance of listening and ...
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Peaceful Parenting® Musings II
The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich
“My teacher likes the girls better than the boys,” David complained to me the spring of his 3rd grade year.
“How can you tell?” I asked. What does she do that makes you say that?” I wasn’t immune...
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Peaceful Parenting® Success Story III
Submitted by Maureen, mother of 7-year old Kenny and 5-year old Stephanie:
"I was having a terrible problem with my son biting his sister during their arguments. Even though Kenny is older, his sister has better language skills. So when they woul...
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How Do I Handle This as a Peaceful Parent? No. III
My 12-year old Amy is my perfect child. She cares about neatness and being responsible. Being a Peaceful Parent with her is easy. But my 10-year old daughter Rebecca is my challenge. She has been diagnosed ADD, is chaotic, irresponsible, messy ...
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Peaceful Parenting® Success Story II
Naomi, mother of 5-year old fraternal sons Zachary and Samuel, wrote and asked for advice on how to work more smoothly with her children. She then read PEACEFUL PARENTING® and shared the following success story:
“My boys are great kids. But our h...
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