5 Tips On How Parents Can Take Control Of Their Lives

Are you feeling overwhelmed being a parent? Do you want to feel more relaxed and empowered raising your child?
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Bridging the Great Mom/Dad Divide

Men and women can react to parenthood so differently. We are all thrilled with our beautiful babies, but becoming parents can change us, and our spouses, in some unexpected and occasionally incomprehensible ways.
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Casual Remarks

It’s a curious affliction: the tendency to talk about one’s children in the most brutally honest and hurtful ways without realizing that the cherished subjects of the offensive comments are listening to every word.
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Direction and Discipline; Be a Parent, Not a Pushover

The truth is, there are a lot of wimpy parents. They don’t trust their own judgment. They treat their kids as if they are delicate crystal that might shatter with even the gentlest handling instead of fairly durable glassware that’s designed to hold up pretty well if not abused.
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Eating Out with Kids: Restaurant Behavior

Children can be both excited and bored when at a restaurant. They can find it difficult to sit in one place for the length of time necessary to order, wait, eat, and pay for the meal.
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Fight the Pressure to Over-schedule: 10 Tips to Take Back Your Family

When you say “yes” to over-scheduling, you also say “no” to your family. Overburdened families are more prone to arguing than their less-frenetic counterparts and are less likely to spend time together.
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Fortify Sensitive Kids

Children are likely to interpret and respond very differently to their experiences, depending on their temperament. Sensitive children are likely to be wonderfully compassionate, bright, creative and imaginative.
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Getting Kids Back to Nature

Today’s children spend little or no time outside. With studies showing that children spend from thirty-six to forty-four hours a week with electronics, there’s little time left for being outdoors.
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Handling Unwanted Advice

Help! I’m getting so frustrated with the endless stream of advice I get from my mother-in-law and brother! No matter what I do, I’m doing it wrong.
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