There are those little girls who sneer “You can’t play with me today” with disdain in their voices. And there are those little girls with aching hearts who hear those words and shrink back from their peers, unsure of what just happened. Mean girls are infiltrating our daughter’s classes, clubs, and neighborhoods, and they are [...]
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And How Can My Child Get Some of That? There are many gifts we would love to be able to give our children, but self-esteem is one of those we can’t just wrap up with a bow and hand over to them. We have to create environments where their self-esteem can grow and flourish. I [...]
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Give your son the vacuum cleaner, and give him the world! Can household chores really do all of that? You might have heard about the research that shows that chores are good for children. It teaches them things like responsibility, practical living skills, and how to participate within a family. But have you heard or [...]
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How Bad Jokes and Silly Stories are the Foundation of Communication Boys – those mystical creatures who fill our homes with mayhem and moments to treasure. Raising boys is sometimes like navigating a mine field of bottled energy, strings of confusing and humorous conversations, and armpit farts. As the mother of three sons, I’ve seen [...]
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Much More than Setting a Good Example Have you ever watched your child and had that moment of realization that they are copying your every move or voice inflection? Our children are so often small reflections of ourselves. They mirror us in so many ways, good and bad, but we sometimes forget the power and [...]
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Watching our children stumble through the forests of friendships, sometimes successfully maneuvering the path and other times finding dark, dangerous caverns, can be one of the most painful things we do as parents. Some parents try to overcome these painful bumps by carefully coordinating friendships from that first Mommy and Me class, before their babies [...]
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Why Some Say Our Kids Shouldn’t Have Best Friends Bullying is bad. It seeps into the souls of children and can slowly chip away at their confidence, self-worth, and feeling of belonging in the world. Loneliness is generally not a comforting emotion, and being excluded from relationships with peers is a challenging and sad experience [...]
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Without Necessarily Leaving Your Neighborhood Sometimes it feels like the world is shrinking. We are more connected and our lives more intertwined than ever before in the history of the world with people from countries, continents, and cultures that we might never travel to see. Our children are growing up in an era when globalization [...]
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How to Raise Confident Kids – Despite Their DNA Do you worry that your baby will grow up to be shy because you were as a child? Do you struggle with encouraging your preschooler to overcome shyness and gain self-confidence? Shyness can be paralyzing for children, and difficult for parents to deal with the emotions [...]
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5 Tips for Raising Kind Kids Lessons about kindness and friendship can come in many forms, and teaching our children to pay it forward and understand the importance of the golden rule is one of the most important things we can do for our kids. Raising kind and conscientious children is deeply rooted in raising [...]
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