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How Domestic Violence Can Cripple Your Child

Jul 4th, 2010

How Domestic Violence Can Cripple Your Child

The environment in high-conflict homes is not conducive to bringing up well-adjusted children. Children exposed to domestic violence tend to have a distorted view of family relationships and run the risk of developing emotional, behavioral, academic and social problems.

Abraham-Hicks: Teach Your Children That Well-Being Abounds

Jul 3rd, 2010

Abraham-Hicks: Teach Your Children That Well-Being Abounds

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them. And that if they will relax and reach for thoughts that feel good, and do their best to appreciate, then they will be less likely to keep the Well-being away, and more likely to allow it to flow into their experience.

Playing With Your Kids: How To Start It, Why It’s So Important

Jul 3rd, 2010

Playing With Your Kids: How To Start It, Why It’s So Important

As any child instinctively knows, play is essential to life. But when is the last time you played or goofed around with your kids? Life has made us so serious, so focused, that we’ve lost the joy of the simple things, and play was one of the first to go. Here's why you should rediscover the wonderful secrets of playing with your child.

What Does Your Child REALLY Need From You?

Jul 2nd, 2010

What Does Your Child REALLY Need From You?

Most parents want to be good parents. Yet parenting is one of those things that does not have hard and fast rules. So how do we know what to do? How do we know what will support our children in being all they can be?

Making Divorce Easier On Your Child: The Aftermath

Jul 2nd, 2010

Making Divorce Easier On Your Child: The Aftermath

In the previous article, we discussed how to make divorce easier on a child before it takes place. This article offers suggestions on how to tackle the aftermath and help your child cushion the pain of the divorce so you can all come out as stronger, secure and balanced individuals.

Preparing Children For Divorce: Before The Process

Jul 1st, 2010

Preparing Children For Divorce: Before The Process

It is not the act of divorce itself but the process involved that determines its effects on children. Separation and divorce can be very distressing for children, but there are ways to ease the agony. Here's how you can let the experience be relatively smooth sailing for the child.

How To Monitor Your Kids Online

Jul 1st, 2010

How To Monitor Your Kids Online

The hazards facing children on the Internet vary widely. There's the chance they'll find inappropriate content. They might make friends with people who aren't who they claim to be. They may face cyber-bullying. While not every child will encounter all of these problems, they are very real. It's important that parents help their children know how to cope.

Do You Parent With Your Wallet?

Jun 30th, 2010

Do You Parent With Your Wallet?

What kid doesn’t love it when Mom or Dad spends money on them? But where's the line between generosity and parenting with your wallet, and what’s the danger of crossing that line? What’s the best approach to take when your ex-spouse spends on the kids instead of parenting them? James Lehman explains.

Thinking Happy: A Skill to Teach Our Kids

Jun 30th, 2010

Thinking Happy: A Skill to Teach Our Kids

A recent groundbreaking research is finding that the programming of the sub-conscious mind plays a much larger role in our mental and physical development and this programming begins BEFORE conception. How we CHOOSE to react to events in our lives gives our children the belief that this is also how they should react to a similar event in their lives.