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Frugal Winter Fun with Kids
Winter is upon us. The kids get cabin fever quickly when their outside free time is limited. You’re looking for some fun things to do before you all start climbing the walls. You don’t need a wallet full of cash to enjoy the cold, snowy days. There...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sara Noel
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Talking to Your ADHD Childs Teacher
If your child has ADHD, talking to his teacher may be the most important thing you can do to help him function more effectively at school in spite of his ADHD, and maybe even because of the ADHD.
Most teachers want to help their students, and most ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Angie Dixon
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Five Tips for Handling ADHD In Your Family
Having more than one child is a challenge. Okay, having one child is a challenge, having two or more is a monumental challenge. When one of those children (or more than one) has ADHD, the challenge multiplies exponentially. Below are some tips for ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Angie Dixon
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Parenting Teenagers: 7 Easy Steps
You know who you are, a parent of a teenager. You’re the one with blood shot eyes, more gray hair than you had yesterday, and empty pockets. Yeah, it’s those empty pockets that get you. When you realize those three things, you’ll know you’re paren...
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Family Meetings: Kids Discuss the D Word
Painful problems occur in every family. In fact, pain is a challenge for everyone. The Family Meeting is an excellent tool for discussing difficult situations.
Many of our children face the one thing that pains them most, divorce. In my 22 years as...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jean Tracy
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The Value Of Jigsaw Puzzles For Very Young Children
Jigsaw puzzles have a lot of educational value for children of all ages. This is because to do a jigsaw requires a child to use several different aspects of the thinking process.
A baby learns to recognize objects by their shape and not necessarily...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Barbara White
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Talking with Your Childs Teacher – 5 Tips for Success
Your child will have numerous teachers over the course of hisher school
career. Effective communication between parents and teachers helps facilitate
success for a child. Below are five useful tips in establishing a valuable
relationship with...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Shannon Kalisher
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How to Encourage Healthy Eating Habits With Your Kids
Parenting is a delightful challenges many of us face in life. It’s not always easy to know what to do to bring up a healthy, well-balanced child, nor how to develop healthy eating habits in your child. Your child is constantly enticed towards foo...
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Are Your Kids At Risk Of Obesity?
Kids need physical activity. We all know that, but if you are a parent have you stopped to consider how much physical activity your child has had today? It’s clear that children in the US and other developed countries such as Australia and the UK...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Kim Beardsmore
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Parents - Thirsty for Love & Care
When a person is healthy and fit, we visit him often and ask him if he needs any help. But if the same person suffers with ill health, we don’t even approach him; let alone rendering help. Why does this happen in the world? It is because we are sel...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sharmila Sanka
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Parents Who Give Too Much
There's a pattern that some parents exhibit with their children when they themselves have had an emotionally deprived childhood. That is the pattern of giving all that they can to their own children often at the expense of their own vital life ener...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Nick Arrizza, M.D.
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Family Learning in Your home
As parents, we are all teaching our children. We are raising them to adulthood - to learn social skills, to learn to read, to learn to think on their own, to love math, to learn to problem solve, to be organized and to keep a schedule. Your child i...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Susan Jarema
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Encouraging Thinking Skills in Young Children
There are many current buzz words used by educators to describe the concept of thinking skills - critical thinking, Socratic thinking, creative thinking, higher-order thinking, logical thinking, problem solving skills, etc… and there doesn’t seem t...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Susan Jarema
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Ensure Your Childs Success in Math - 10 Great Ways!
In today’s information age, data is doubling faster than ever before. Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes – I can’t keep up! The math curriculum in schools is much larger, yet schools are required to teach it with increasingly limited resour...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Susan Jarema
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Want your Child to Love Books? Go See a Movie!
Reading a book from which a movie is made is almost always a richer experience than simply watching the movie. The experience of savoring the words on the page and allowing yourself to be taken on a journey inspired by the author is sublime. As the...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Brent Sitton
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The Advantages for Children Involved in Raising Farm Animals
Children can learn a great many lessons and develop positive personality traits by working with farm animals. Working with animals will teach children responsibility and promote good character and integrity. A farm is a wonderful environment in w...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Tiffany Washko
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10 Things Every New Parent Needs to Know
As a new mother, I found that I felt unprepared and completely off-balance during the first few weeks of motherhood. I would ask others for advice, getting a myriad of opinions (none of them the same). From my own experiences, I thought it would be...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Melissa Williams
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Wonk, Wonk, Wonk- How to Train Your Kids to Ignore You
It started with a trip to the grocery store. While I waited for the cashier to ring up my items, a mother behind me was delivering a soliloquy (only she didn't recognize it as such!).
"Suzy, you're not going to take that home."
"Suzy, you can car...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Carrie Lauth
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Oh, Youre Good For Nothing
I don’t believe in good for nothing.
I was walking down the aisle of a large supermarket when I heard a mother hissing to her crying child, “Good for nothing! Nothing! You better stop this now or I will leave you with the police man”. Not that I am...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Marsha Maung
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Reading to Your Kids: Challenge Your Assumptions!
Even before she was born, I imagined snuggling close with my daughter, Katie, and reading to her. I just knew that she would love books, and she would become an avid reader like her dear ol' Mom. Her bookshelves were stocked with the best of the be...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Holly Jahangiri
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Family Tradtions: What Can You Do Together?
Family traditions and regular rituals can hold families together.
Did you know that the average American family spends only 14.5 minutes a day all together? Stack that up against all the "screen time" most kids spend each day, and you begin to see ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeff Herring
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Family Traditions & Rituals: Creating a Connection Between Past and Present
Family rituals provide a sense of belonging
The purpose of family rituals and traditions is to provide a sense of belonging to the family.
"Family rituals create connections between family members past and present, foster identity through individua...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeff Herring
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Family Rituals: Communicating Values
Family values . . . now that's a term we've certainly heard a lot about lately.
In the midst of all the rhetoric, have you ever wondered how values become established and communicated within the family?
Values communicated over time
One of the key ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeff Herring
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Kids and Teens and the Phone: Six Criteria for Addressing the Problem
The difference between trying to control vs. manage a teen-ager is all in how you approach the situation.
A management approach meets the following six criteria:
1. The parents are clearly in charge
2. The teen, over time, learns and earns the abil...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeff Herring
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Kids and Teens and the Phone: 2 Things Not to Do
Q: We are having a big problem at our house over the use
of the phone. It rings constantly, we never get to see our
daughter and she would talk all night if we let her. Help!!
A. Using the phone seems to be a rite of passage for many teen-agers. If...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jeff Herring
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