Kids And Self-Esteem
I remember the day my seven year old came home from school, upset and unwilling to tell me why he had been crying. He eventually hugged me tight and told me that one of his classmates had said...
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6 Tips To Get Your Teen Talking
Have a teenager? Maybe you don't have one yourself, but you have a niece or nephew who is at this wonderfully tumultuous time in her life. How do you get her talking? While one-word answers might be...
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10 Tips on Being a Good Mother
Every mother has struggled with the question of whether she is doing a good enough job. It’s only natural to worry about our children, and whenever one of them does something wrong, we ask ourselves...
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Tips for Parents: How to Stop Yelling
“HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO STOP DOING THAT?” “IT IS TIME TO GO. GET IN THE CAR NOW!” “BECAUSE I SAID SO.” If you have ever found yourself yelling at your children then those phrases are...
View ArticleBeyond the Nuclear Family
By now in this era of ours, many of us have come to discover that the definitions of what a parent is, and how a family should operate are far more complex than perhaps we thought in generations past....
View ArticleTips for Parents: The Second-Time Parent
We are inundated with information prior to the birth of our first child, but nobody seems to say much about what to expect the second time around. True, becoming a parent for the second time might not...
View ArticleHow to be a Foster Parent
Okay, so this article won’t tell you the legalities of how to be a foster parent. My hope is to give you the information and advice you might be seeking before you make that step of becoming a foster...
View ArticleQ&A: Maya Soetoro-Ng on Dreams From Her Mother
Just before the crack of dawn, Stanley Ann Dunham made it a ritual to wake up her daughter Maya to gaze at the moon. As Maya complained about being sleepy, Dunham would share with her “moon baby”...
View ArticleHi-Tech Family Time: Five Tips on Using Technology to Reconnect with Your Kids
Gathering the family around the kitchen table for a board game or in the living room for a movie used to be the norm for family night. Technology has changed that. Family time now competes with video...
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You are my Sunshine
Editor's note: This is a Best of Everything contribution written by Cherie Ehlert. Today we took Charlie to Canuck Place to see Fred Penner. Besides the initial few tears, it was obvious from the huge...
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