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Show Your Kids How To Fight: 5 Rules to Follow When in Conflict

In order to show your kids how to fight, you must begin with accepting that conflict is a normal part of a healthy relationship. Conflict is not something to be avoided or feared. When handled correctly, it actually provides an opportunity for relationships to deepen. When I was growing up, my parents frowned on sibling...

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Helping Your Child Grow Up Through Pruning

Helping your child grow up is not just about proving the physical needs for their life. It includes hard stuff like “pruning.” Every landscaper or gardener knows the importance of pruning bushes and trees. They trim plants by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems to increase fruitfulness and growth. An unpruned vine will...

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Getting Teens to Open Up: What’s the Secret?

Believe it or not, your teens really do care what you think. According to this study, boys (82%) and girls (76%) said they valued their parents’ opinions over their friends’ when it came to serious decisions. If you struggle to communicate with your teen, you may think that it’s because they don’t listen to you...

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How to Raise a Safe Teen Driver

Safe teen driver. No, that is not an oxymoron. You can prepare your teen and guide them to being safe drivers. Maybe the whole license thing is bitter sweet for you: you’re looking forward to giving your teen more freedom and at the same time you are nervous about the risk that comes when they...

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Getting Kids to Cooperate: 4 Ways to Guarantee it Won’t Happen

Getting kids to cooperate is a daily challenge for parents and as a parenting coach, I spend a lot of time coaching parents on how to get their kids to do that. Today, however, I am going to approach it from the opposite spectrum and talk about ways that parents can pretty much guarantee that...

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Quality vs. Quantity Time: Does it Really Matter When it Comes to Your Kids?

My dad talked about quality vs. quantity time when I was growing up. His philosophy was that quality mattered more than quantity when it came to spending time with his six kids. I’m not sure what brought him to that conclusion–maybe it was his way of making himself feel better about the fact that he...

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Your Child’s Friends: 8 Things to Be on the Lookout For

It’s easy to choose your child’s friends when they are little because you are in total control of their schedule and who they spend time with. But as your kids get older, they start choosing their own friend groups. If your kids struggle to make friends, you may be grateful that they’ve connected with some...

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5 Things That Will Give Your Kids a Sense of Security

Kids need to feel a sense of security. It is vital for them to grow up to be healthy, strong adults. British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, the founding father of attachment theory explains the need for security this way: Attachment is an emotional bond that impacts behavior from the cradle to the grave. Safety and...

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Parenting Burnout: 5 Signs That You are Running on Fumes

Parenting burnout is a real thing. Research published by Clinical Psychological Science states that parent burnout is: an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed, physical and emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of being an ineffective parent.  As a mom who raised three kids, I know that there were days when I was...

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5 Ways to Help Your Children Succeed Without Being an Overbearing Sports Parent

Would you say you are an overbearing sports parent? Throughout 21 years of being a sports mom and 33 years of being a coach’s wife, I have never met a parent who did not want their child to succeed in youth sports. Each one had their own unique way of supporting and/or pushing their child...

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