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Why Can’t We Be Our Children’s Heroes?

By on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Raising children, in this day and age, has its challenges. The days of our heroes being cowboys who never tell lies and always captured the bad guy in the black hat are over. Our favorite cowboys have been replaced by sports stars that suffer from infidelity and drug problems. Since our children’s pool of good examples for heroes is small, why can’t we, their parents, be their heroes?

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How Do I Practice Postivie Parenting? Tip 5 Conformity Vs. Discipline

By on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

When we are raising children, we always want to do what is best.  Positive parenting is about raising children that are not all the same.  The goal behind positive parenting is to raise children to become independent, loving adults.  Sometimes, in our quest for this, we get locked into a battle with our children because [...]

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How Do I Practice Postive Parenting? Tip 4 – Discipline

By on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments

I remember, when I was young and single, how seeing a unruly child’s behavior swore to myself that “I will never have a child that acts like that!”  Be careful of that kind of statements.  It seems whenever we make those kind of statements, the world will conspire against us.  When we do have children, [...]

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How Do I Practice Postive Parenting? Tip 3

By on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Are you a manipulator?  Most of us would love to say emphatically,  “heck no!”.  Is that true? Many people use a very manipulative tactic that gets passed down from generation to generation like grandma’s china in the china cabinet.  It is a family tradition.  This tool is one of the biggest failing in our quest [...]

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How Do I Practice Positive Parenting? Tip 2

By on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | No Comments

It is a very busy world today.  We have more modern conveniences and less time.  How did that happen?  The world is moving so fast.  Families are caught up in whirl winds of activities.  Quite a few families have both parents working. Then, there are after school activities such as dance and sports.  It becomes [...]

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How Do I Practice Positive Parenting? Tip 1

By on Monday, October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Are you raising children right now? Do you ever have days when you wonder if you will survive it? If either question rings true, I have some positive parenting tips for you. I am not a professional child psychologist, social worker, or have any degree in child development. The only parenting education degree I hold [...]

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