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7 Ways Busy Families Can Volunteer


Volunteering together is a fantastic way to spend time as a family. Volunteering

Minimizing Homework Hassles


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Are You Frustrated With Public Schools?


Join a growing number of parents and teachers!

Legacy to Your Children


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The Safest Stuffed Toys for the Kids on your Gift List


Although it's hard to say when the first stuffed dogs appeared, I would guess that it was soon after dogs were domesticated. We do know that as long as there have been children, there have been dolls, rattles, miniature weapons, and hand-made animals. Anthropologists have found evidence of toys dating back to the earliest records of human life.

Grandparents! Help Your Grandkids Do Math!


This may come as a surprise.

5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math


Uh oh.

Assume Personal Responsibility? Who, Me?


As thinking, acting human beings we have the ability to choose our response to events, people and circumstances. We do not become responsible when we mature; we mature when we become responsible.

Childs Play: Treating The Insanity of the Mental Health System


In today's mental health system there is a pattern of fraud and coercion that takes way the freedoms and dignity of children and their families. Children are receiving stigmatizing labels and being prescribed psychotropic drugs with many untoward effects. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, MD made the comment that if an individual hit us with a blackjack and robbed us of our dignity we would call them thugs, yet psychiatrists label and drug children and rob them of their dingity and nothing is said. All in the name of profit. Rarely, if never are the families given informed consent. Szasz has also stated, "From a sociological point of view, psychiatry is a secular institution to regulate domestic relations. From my point of view, it is child abuse." Families are provided with literature that appears so matter of fact but is funded by the pharmaceutical companies and tainted with their bias. According to the Pughkeepsie Journal, the 'support' or should it be said front group for Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder received substantial funds from the pharmaceutical companies: "CHADD received $315,000 from drug companies in the year ending June 2000, about 12 percent of its budget."

Entering Their Imaginative World


In dealing with children with autism spectrum disorders, its all about relationship. These children are within a realm where they feel and respond much differently than others. There has been much focus on trying to eliminate certain behaviors or to evoke particular responses in children which actually become rote and repetitive for them without context. One of the goals in aiding these children should be in helping them find meaning. In order to do this we must be willing to not look at the child as broken, unable to respond, or even unable to communicate. These children DO communicate, however they are not always able to manipulate their senses to communicate in the typical ways of other children. As a result, they can become easily frustrated and trapped. The therapist must enter their imaginative world and learn to communicate in their language.

Raising Teenagers? Stay C.A.L.M.


Parents of teenagers frequently ask what can be done to improve their relationship with their kids. This can be a challenging time, and a time when parents sometimes feel rejected, out of touch, and unclear about what to do. Here?s a simple strategy that can help set you up for a smoother ride.

ZERO Tolerance: How Firm the Line?


A friend phoned her neighbor, complaining about the wafts of marijuana smoke that circled up and into to her kitchen window from the neighbor?s driveway during the warm summer nights. The neighbor?s teenagers and their friends were smoking out in the driveway. My friend said the mother?s response was, ?Well, that?s what kids do, isn?t it??

Teenagers and Stress: What Parents Can Do to Help


More and more parents are expressing their concerns about how to support their teenagers who are complaining about the stress in their lives.

Tips for Parents of Teenagers: Dont Just Survive - Thrive!


What makes parenting so challenging at times? One widespread research study reports that feeling ?unprepared? tops the list for many parents? causes of dissatisfaction. And parents of teenagers, in particular, may feel this acutely as so many changes converge at once: adolescents are changing in every conceivable way while they often push parents away in their search for individuality. That this often happens during parents? own mid-life changes only adds to the poignancy of this period in a family?s life.

Parents of Teens: Do You Ever Ask WHY is she so MEAN to me?


Do you ever wonder what is behind the occasional nasty attitudes expressed by your teenager? Teenagers can make their parents feel pretty badly at times; if they only knew how much their words and actions sometimes hurt us they?d probably stop. Perhaps.

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