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Teens and Puberty – How to Talk to Your Daughter About Her Changing Body

Your beautiful little girl is growing up and turning into a woman. You can see the signs and want to prepare her for that day when she gets her first period. You don’t feel altogether comfortable about it and you aren’t sure what to say or how to start. This is quite normal because menstruation [...]

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The Benefits of Communication Skills

What if I told you there was a secret to you being happy, attractive, popular, successful, understanding, in control, loving, and satisfied? What if I told you that you could get all these benefits plus more by learning a single skill? It sounds almost too good to be true. The skill that will give you [...]

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10 Dumb Things People Do in Relationships

Looking for inspiration for this article, I asked my wife, Christy, to help me identify one dumb thing I do in our relationship. I should have known better. “Only one?” she asked innocently. Apart from the occasional Saint among us, the rest of us are pretty human and do our own dumb things in relationships [...]

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Dealing with Controlling People

The worse thing in the world is to feel controlled and manipulated. Each waking day, our minds are challenged by forces that try to identify and dictates to us what we need to do. Whether we know it or not, the forces of manipulation and control are always at work even before we get out [...]

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Understanding Authoritative Parenting Style

Everyone has their own different style of parenting that fits their family and their situation. It all depends on background, tradition and culture or how an individual goes about in dealing with the personality of the child or children. One thing is for sure and that is the fact that there is no instruction manual [...]

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Effects of Single Parent Families

In America, single parent families are really frowned upon. The family is supposed to have a mother and a father and anything less is unacceptable in the eyes of most people. Young mothers who head single family homes are looked at as being in another class level in America. Many children are born out of [...]

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Anger Management Strategies for Children

Most would say that it is an understatement when someone says that children are difficult to raise. There is a continuous struggle to define and re-define boundaries, as well as to discover what appropriate behavior is and what is more difficult. One of the problems that many parents have is with children exploring and taking [...]

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Finding the Right Bandages: Empathy versus Sympathy in Relationship Communication

Life was much easier when you were a child. You would fall and scrape your knee, and you would get a band-aid. Maybe you felt bad about something that happened at school, your mom would sit you down with chocolate chip cookies and milk and listen while you told about your bad grade or time [...]

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Active Listening Skills for a Good Relationship

Too often the focus on healthy relationship communication exists in what each person says. The idea that one-way messages are at the heart of good relationship communication is what destroys relationships. Active listening skills are a must-have technique to anyone interested in building good relationships. There are a variety of active listening skills you can [...]

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Coping With Divorce Anger

Successfully releasing your anger will help you begin healing after your divorce. Right now you may feel a great deal of rage at your ex-husband. You might be thinking that if it weren’t for him, your life wouldn’t be so messed up. These feelings are actually a necessary part of your healing. Acknowledging Anger Wouldn’t [...]

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