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Widen And Deepen Your Relationships…Get to the Good Stuff

“Get off the surface and deepen your relationships. Go after the buried treasures and reap the rewards.” Beth Tabak Get past the “how are you doing? how’s the wife and kids?” with the response being “good, not so good, or fine” to the story behind each person. This is when you develop connection, and people [...]

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Brilliant Parenting: Encouraging Positive Behaviors in Others

Guiding your child to behave in a positive manner is as easy as 1,2,3. Two business practices have been adapted for family use. The first one is compelling in its simplicity. 1. Set a Goal The first step is to meet with your children, and have them “buy in” to a mutually-developed goal. Explain to [...]

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10 Ways to Help Your Child Make Friends

“How come I don’t have any friends?” Has your child ever asked you that question? It’s not an easy one to answer. Children are often cruel to one another and their methods for choosing friends are often irrational to the adult mind. Unfortunately, there is no quick-fix answer to make a child instantly popular. As [...]

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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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