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3. EMPATHY: Five Essential Es of Raising Responsible Kids

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Love and Logic Techniques for Toddlers

Dr. Charles Fay explains how to use one of Love and Logic principal techniques - the "uh-oh song." For more information, visit www ...

LIFEadvice: Living with an angry teenager

23.05.12


I have an 11-year-old. Her essence is changing and so is her attitude. I often find myself stooping down to her level when she says "I am not going to do that!"

Once she starts her continually arguing, throwing tantrums, calling names and/or pushing my husband and I away, I find that my stillness and I start to argue with each other over the way we discipline her.

Source: KSL-TV

Where do I go for help? Using the resources of the Internet to get answers

23.05.12

Talking to parents of adolescents today often includes the dirge that “We just don’t know what to do, we never experienced this kind of problem when we were kids.”

Source: Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

Up All Night

23.05.12

It was ineluctable that Up All Night would eventually introduce Amy’s grandparents in an effort to throw Reagan and Chris’ parenting type into sharp relief and/or give us added insight into the neuroses they picked up from mom and dad. That fact was made all the more ineluctable when the news broke that Blythe Danner, Hollywood’s premier voice for distinguished comedic matriarchs with an icy edge, would play Reagan’s indulge. It was not inevitable, however, that the episode introducing Danner and Richard Schiff as the renowned psychiatrists who brought Christina Applegate’s position into this world—and could take her out of it with a line of incisive, scoping inquiry—would spotlight so squarely on death.

Source: A.V. Club (blog)

Bringing Children's Friends on Vacation

23.05.12

We have four kids, and the age spread is eight years between the oldest and the twins, then 14 months between the twins and the youngest. (OK, for those of you who are interfering, the first was with my first husband, and the three younger ones were with my right husband. And yes, it was pretty much like having triplets. And it was—and still is—wonderful! OK, now we can proceed.)

Source: MousePlanet