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Posted on January 30th, 2006 on

When your child is sick, he or she needs as much rest as possible. However, children are likely to get bored when they have to rest all da...

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Giving Children Choices

Posted on January 30th, 2006 on

Providing choices is an excellent way of dealing with children of almost any age. It’s helpful for you because it helps you establish an...

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Tough Love: Right or Wrong?

Posted on January 29th, 2006 on

When I was a teenager, my mom heard about this method of dealing with rebelliousness, called “tough love.” Her interpretation of “tough lo...

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Being a Parent for Life

Posted on January 27th, 2006 on

Being a parent doesn’t end when your child turns 18, or graduates from college, or reaches any of the other milestones on the way to adulthood. H...

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The Honesty of Youth

Posted on January 26th, 2006 on

Children can be astonishingly honest at times. Sometimes it will make you laugh, other times it may seem a little offensive, and sometimes th...

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Big Changes, Little Lives

Posted on January 26th, 2006 on

A family I babysit for is about to go through a major change: their nanny of six years is leaving them. Some of the younger children have ne...

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When Comfort Objects Backfire

Posted on January 23rd, 2006 on

It happens so naturally, you may not notice until the damage is done: suddenly your baby screams his or her little head off the instant they’re pa...

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Should There Be a Parental Licensing Program?

Posted on January 23rd, 2006 on

One of my parenting teachers used to say – only have jokingly, I think – that raising kids was like making pancakes: the first one or tw...

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Dinnertime Blues

Posted on January 22nd, 2006 on

With all the families I have worked with, there are a few major issues that always seem to come up in some fashion. One of those is the is...

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Parent-Watching (Continued)

Posted on January 20th, 2006 on

Today I had another opportunity for what I am fondly beginning to call “Parent-Watching.” This time I had an opportunity for comparison, as...

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