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Evaluating Why You are Frustrated with Your Child
[Week 43 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Last year I was driving the 35 mph speed limit on our narrow, winding road, when another car drove up close behind me. The Continue Reading
Teaching Your Child About Having a Conversation
[Week 42 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] (transcript pending) Continue Reading
Preparing Your Child for Passion
[Week 41 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] What are the main factors in youthful passion? Right around the time puberty hits, a child usually feels a surge of passion Continue Reading
How Parents Should Think About Rebellion
[Week 40 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] How to start putting authority in perspective People tend to have two equally unhelpful, extreme views toward authority. Continue Reading
The Truth About Children and Peer Pressure
[Week 39 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Where does peer pressure come from? Parents often talk about peer pressure like it is some kind of mystical evil force. They Continue Reading
Helping Children Learn How to Evaluate Adults
[Week 38 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Variations on adult interactions with children If you, as parents, have good relationships with your children, they come to Continue Reading
Helping Children Grow into Independence
[Week 37 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] What does it mean to be independent? A basic definition of independent is to be free from the rule of others. In other Continue Reading
Telling Your Children the Truth about Drugs and Alcohol
[Week 36 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Honest basics about substances What would an honest discussion of drugs and alcohol look like? If you are having a conversation Continue Reading
Helping Your Child Learn How to Handle a Schedule
[Week 35 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Don’t cut yourself on the schedule Schedules are like knives. They can cut things up into bite size, digestible pieces or they Continue Reading