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How to Stop from Becoming Micromanaging Parents

Are you becoming one of those micromanaging parents? Do you constantly interfere when your child has a friend over to play? Insist they always wear clothes that meet your standards? Hover over them on the sidelines as they play sports? Constantly check on them as they do their homework? Micromanaging, also known as over-parenting, shows...

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Parenting Love Looks Like WHAT?

Parenting love began the moment you held your child in your arms, whether they came from your womb or someone else birthed them. At first, it may seem easy to love our kids, when they are helpless, cute, and oh-so-innocent. But as they grow older, parenting love takes on more challenges as kids become resistant...

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What Will Keep Your Home From Falling Apart When Trouble Comes?

When trouble comes, will your house stand strong? Every household is going to face difficulty at some point. It may be a job loss, a relationship crumbling, sickness, or financial stress. It may be as tragic as death or as simple as annoying neighbors. Whatever the problem is, it rattles your peaceful home and can...

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10 Small Ways to Show Love to Your Children

The task to show love to your children every day can sometimes be easy and other times be one of the hardest things you will do as a parent. Kids are cute and wonderful when they are lovable and cooperative, but when they’re ornery and resistant, you may be tempted to ship them off to...

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Is Your Child in Trouble? Here are 10 Warning Signs

Is your child in trouble? Most pre-teens and teens face common challenges—bullying, peer pressure, finding their identity, stress, poor body image, or low self-esteem. We all remember the struggles that come with growing up; life for middle and high schoolers gets harder and harder in a world that is pulling them in so many directions....

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How to Avoid Crapshoot Parenting

Do you often feel like each day is a parenting guessing game? A crapshoot of trying to figure what works and what doesn’t when it comes to getting your kids to cooperate? When my oldest was born, over 33 years ago, it only took a few weeks for me to reach a point of frustration,...

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How Do You Handle Parenting Challenges?

How are you doing at handling parenting challenges? Answer each of these 20 questions based on how much you agree with the statement. Scoring and evaluations are at the end. The purpose of this is not to shame you, guilt you or discourage you; it is to encourage you, give you an idea of where...

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Do You Know How to Do the Parenting Dance?

Parenting is not like math or science where black is black and white is white. It is more of an art that shifts and changes with the circumstances, and with the needs of your children. Actually, parenting can be likened to a dance that has three basic steps: The leading step where the parent is...

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6 Ways to Connect With Your Teen

Whether your child is just becoming a tween or is a full-fledged teen, you most likely have noticed some attitude changes. Your sweet baby may not be so sweet any longer and you may feel on some days like you are navigating an emotional mine field. The emotions of a teenager can be compared to...

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5 Things to Keep Telling Yourself While You Watch Your Child Play Sports

My kids are no longer playing youth sports. But two of them are coaching it, as well as my husband. Our youngest played her last college volleyball game over 7 years ago, so I’ve had some time to recover from being a competitive sports mom–or so I thought. While attending my son-in-law’s basketball games this...

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