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Parenting InformationPutting Your Child To BedAre you glad for the chance to put your child to bed? Is this a great time for you and your kids or is it serious business? Is it a time in your day you look forward to, or do you have to grit your teeth to face the struggle? Bedtime is a terrific opportunity for us and our children. Spending just a few minutes with each of our children at bedtime can offer us the chance to really connect with them in ways that during the day, which is often hectic, it is much more difficult. How To Live With Your Teenagers Untidy Room'Whose room is it anyway?' Summer Marks the Time to Remember Active Supervision Around Family Swimming PoolsLOS ANGELES (May 19, 2005) ? With Memorial Day weekend, and summer fast approaching, EMS, first responders, and water safety advocates, are bracing for the unthinkable ? the unfortunate drowning accidents in backyard swimming pools that annually claim the lives of nearly 500 children under the age of five, and an estimated 2,800 ?near-drowning? incidents.1 How to Talk to Your Kids About Suicide: New Study Says it May Make Them Less Likely to Consider It!This year alone, 1,600 teenagers aged 15 to 19 will die from committing suicide. Suicide among kids, once a rarity, is now a growing concern in America, and it appears that one of the best ways to keep your kids from doing it is to be a nosy parent. Why Wont My Teens Clean Their Room?Have you ever had this struggle with your teens? Did you get to the results that you were looking for? Did moving toward those results create an unexpected rift between you and your teen? Parents complain to me that when their teens won?t do their chores and, as a result, they punish their teens, there is conflict and a damaged relationship. Parents say that they don?t want their relationship with their teens to suffer. They say that they understand that discipline and order is needed in their teens? lives, but are at a loss at how to encourage it in a way that allows their relationship with their teens to keep thriving. So what is there to do? You Goofed? Hip, Hip, Hooray!Certainly we all want our children to excel. But it takes most kids years to find their strengths; if they don?t try everything that comes their way --from kickball to spelling bees-- how will they discover their passions? If at First They Dont Succeed - What a Great Opportunity!When kids try new things, sometimes it?s a ?fit? and sometimes a struggle. A Quiz for Parents: What Are They REALLY Learning?Picture this. Your child comes home with a special assignment from school. He's very excited about it and puts in a lot of time to perfect it. He's thrilled with the result and can't wait to take it to school. The Metamorphosis of The Brain: Raising Your child to be a BrainiacThe human brain never actually stops developing. Beginning formation in early prenatal life (just 3 weeks after conception), the brain's development is a lifelong endevour, endlessly under construction, constantly reshaping and redefining itself based on everyday life and the types of stimulation that we provide for it. Exams Cause Stress For Parents TooWhen it comes to exams, or indeed any academic work, parents feel that they should be encouraging their teen to try hard and do well. The problem is that in trying to achieve this, many parents end up causing stress either for themselves, their teen or both. Single Mother Sanity Savers Pt. 1Being a single mother is no easy task. I know. I was a single mother of two children less than six months ago, so I can say with some authority that being a single mother is a beast. It can drive you crazy if you let it. The insanity is not just that you have to raise children alone and be mother and father. The craziness gets worse when you add a full-time job, not enough money, societal pressure, not to mention being blamed for all of society?s ill. How does a single mother remain graceful under pressure? How does she keep from wielding a knife at the next person that tell her ?it?s not that bad?? What keeps her from pulling her hair out at a minimum, and at a maximum keep from killing herself, her children, or just her spirit? The following five Sanity Savers offers some solutions that I find help get me through some really rough times. They may be a temporary, just for the moment fix, but then again sometime that?s all a haggard single mother needs. Dealing with Lying: The Dos and DontsJason Roberts listened to his son's explanation of the missing cookies and then called him a liar. Brenda Taylor thought her three-year-old's lies were cute, so she ignored them. Yee Chen told her daughter that if she told the truth this time, she would let it go. Guide Your Kids! This 3-D Map Leads to CharacterA tall, weary-looking mother with glasses, walked into my counseling office with her 10-year-old-daughter. The mother frowned at me and sat down. ?Oh-oh!? I thought. ?Why are you here?? I inquired. Drinking and Driving: Will Your Child Become a Statistic?Just two days ago, another 15-year old child was added to the overwhelming statistics of drunk-driving, related deaths. One minute, he's full of vitality and attending our local high school, the next his unsuspecting parents are identifying him in a local morgue. The harsh reality of this brutal scenerio is sometimes very difficult to comprehend. Would You Know if Your Child Were Being Bullied? 4 Tips to Keep Them From Becoming a VictimThe 21st Century Problem in Schools: Bullying, and How to Keep Your Kid From Being a Victim
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