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5 Parenting Tips You Don’t Typically Hear
As a parenting author I’ve seen hundreds of parenting books and read countless...
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Parenting 17-year-olds like 18-year-olds
The last 6 months I’ve been conducting a little experiment; but, instead of...
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4 Tips to Teach Kids Delayed Gratification
Today, with the challenges to our economy, it is imperative to teach your...
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The Pressures of Prom
If being a teenager wasn’t difficult enough…enter prom season.Long gone are the days...
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Hope in a Hopeless Situation
Raising Kids When Divorce Gets UglyI have a friend- we’ll call him Dan-...
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Raising Kids in a Divorced Home
“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel (Malachi 2:16)And I...
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Behind the Family Portrait
I always find the pictures on the front of parenting books a little...
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“Shhhhh! Don’t Talk About Sex!”
What Happens When a Society Goes Silent on Sex?In the spring of 2012,...
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Telling Teenagers the Explicit Truth About Sex
Four Facts About Sex We Just Can't Keep to OurselvesTalking with our kids...
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Backtalking to Mom Should Be Rewarded?
“I thought I told you to clean your room.”“You did tell me that,...