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Life Notes: Mothering wisdom from grandparents
Happy Mother's Day, fellow moms. I hope you're enjoying being celebrated for the ways in which you care, the many things you do and for simply being you.
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Life Notes: Help your kids value organization
Has spring fever hit you, moms and dads, and if so, have you strategically transferred the "condition" to your children?
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LIFE NOTES: One caring person can change a child's world
The weary mom knew if her infant daughter didn't stop crying, she might harm her.
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Life Notes: Finding balance in a busy world
How do you do it all? As a busy writer, marketing consultant, speaker and community volunteer who is raising children, I'm often asked that question.
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Life Notes: Combating teen dating violence
Michelle didn't consider the way her freshman-year boyfriend treated her as abusive. When the Lynchburg College student helped her sorority host a domestic violence awareness vigil, however, the truth of her circumstances stunned her.
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Life Notes: Author's words of inspiration for the world
During a recent chat with another mom about parenting, I shared one of my favorite books, a title I discovered years before my first child's birth. It's not a formal parenting book, and I didn't initially read it for that kind of advice.
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Life Notes: Stop bullying now
I have written several columns in recent years about how to help kids and their parents cope with bullying.
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Life Notes: Inside the world of teens
If you're raising a teenager and often rely on your personal experiences of that season to guide your parenting, one expert says give up. The issues and culture today's teens grapple with are vastly different than what adolescents experienced 20 to 30 years ago.
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Life Notes: Engaging kids in science helps them become critical thinkers
When was the last time your child asked you, "Why" or "How?"
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Life Notes: Protecting your children's online reputation
With millions of iPods, iPads, Kindles, tablets, laptops and high-tech cellphones purchased for Christmas, it's likely that your child is online in some form or fashion.
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Life Notes: Best unwrapped Christmas gifts on Earth
Merry Christmas, Mom, Dad and kids.
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Witness the power of practical gift-giving
If your kids are like mine, their Christmas wish lists are in various stages of revision, changing as often as new holiday commercials grace their eyes and ears.
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Children's author finds path to success through failure
Everyone's path to success is different, and sometimes it's birthed from failure.
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Life Notes: Saving our nation's children
Before I became a parent, trends in K-12 education, concerns about child nutrition and the debate over quality television for youths didn't faze me.
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Life Notes: Parents can improve kids' school experience
If you're one of those parents (like me) who regularly asks your children, "How was school today?" a noted child psychologist says we deserve the rote answer we often get.
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Life Notes: Helping a child cope with a loved one's suicide
Shirley Ramsey was 8 when her mother killed herself, and for the longest time, Ramsey believed she was to blame.
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Children are suffering in faltering economy
You know times are tough when children begin monitoring the economy.
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Life Notes: Parents who live vicariously through their children can do great harm
In times like these, in which opportunities abound for self-expression and self-improvement, it's surprising that some parents try to live vicariously through their children.
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Tips on how to thrive as a single parent
According to national research, more than 21 million American children live in single-parent homes.
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Life Notes: Permissive parenting can be harmful
Just as there are no cookie-cutter kids, parenting methods aren't one-size fits all.
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Life Notes: Parenting young children is hard work, but rewarding
A friend is having her first child soon, and I have a touch of baby fever.
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Life Notes: Celebrating Father's Day year-round
A week past Father's Day, I can't help but wonder whether dads continue to lament their fate.
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Life Notes: Surviving parental peer pressure
To the mom who recently chided me for a parenting decision she thought was inappropriate: I applaud you.
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Life Notes: Parenting a child who has autism
Stacylee's red hair and blue eyes are usually the first things new friends notice about her, not that she happens to have autism.
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Life Notes: A parent's grief transforms into empowerment
It's a troubling phenomenon that many children who are sexually abused become the victims of someone they know and trust.
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