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Watching My Parenting Come Full Circle

by ParentCo.

Eventually, with luck, It’s all there. Everything we’ve worked so hard for to form the unbreakable parent/child bond.

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Bullying Is On The Decline: New Study Shows How Parents Can Keep It That Way

by ParentCo.

Although it now receives more attention than it did previously, bullying, overall, is actually on the decline in the United States.

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Financial Tough Love Taught My Daughter Responsibility

by ParentCo.

Being able to support herself was the key to her future – a future I saw as bright and full of promise. So I cut her off financially.

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When I Forced my Eleven-Year-Old Son to Watch “Fiddler on the Roof”

by ParentCo.

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The Dangerous Game of Giving Too Much

by ParentCo.

The love my mother gave was her highest achievement as well as her downfall. It knew no limits, never said no, and it never flowed back to herself.

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My Kids Might be Nudists, But I Save a Fortune on Clothes

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Eye-Witness Reports From My Kid's Check-Out Line Meltdown

by ParentCo.

I went into that grocery store at a mere 28 years young. Sadly, I drove away at an alarming 84 years old.

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How to Teach Young Girls to Embrace Their Curls and Differences, From the Author Of "Curlee Girlee"

by ParentCo.

Girls as young as five are six times more likely to have an aversion to their hair if it’s curly. How can they embrace their differences and learn to appreciate their curls?

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When Motherhood Means Sitting in the Dark With My Child

by ParentCo.

And that’s parenting really – you do all you can do, but sometimes you still find yourself sitting in the dark.

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How to Delegate Chores and Actually Get Your Kids to Do Them

by Sanya Pelini

Getting kids to help around the house can prove to be a Herculean task. But by giving them age-appropriate tasks, they can easily participate.

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Mommy-and-Me, Destroying the Me in Mommy

by ParentCo.

I am their mom. I am the crucial part of our Mommy-and-Me, but I’m losing the Me.

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My 7th Grader Was Not "A Pleasure to Have in Class" and Turned Out Just Fine

by ParentCo.

If you have a child who isn’t always “a pleasure to have in class,” don’t be discouraged. Be consistent, but don’t give up or lose faith.

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Buying and Selling a House…With a Toddler, a Pregnant Wife, and a Tight Deadline

by ParentCo.

My wife's reaction to finding out she was pregnant eight months after giving birth to our first child encapsulated the major difference between us.

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April Showers Bring Spring Scented Kids

by ParentCo.

There is a unique smell that is my young children at the end of a spring day.

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Carl Jung on Parenting: There Are No Coincidences

by ParentCo.

Synchronicity is all about coincidence, about things happening at similar times or in a particular pattern so that the things take on meaning.

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Are There Child Traffickers in Ikea? The Fine Balance of Parenting, Paranoia, and Preparedness

by ParentCo.

We are parenting in a time of paranoia. What are the statistics about abductions and sex trafficking in our current culture? It's not as dire as you'd think.

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Charting a New Course for My Sensitive Girl

by ParentCo.

It is not my job to tell my daughter who to be. She already feels the world speaking to her, telling her that her sensitivity is undesirable.

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All-Embracing Ways to Parent a Shy Kid

by ParentCo.

Researchers have found that shyness is part of a child’s temperament and can be quite persistent. So how do you support your shy child?

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How to Help Your Kid Conquer Feelings of Disappointment

by ParentCo.

The line between setting a child up for success and protecting him from disappointment is hazy. Yet the alternative is not only impossible, it backfires.

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These Are the Years of Looking Down

by ParentCo.

The early days of motherhood pull your gaze away from the stars and downward onto chores, and babies, and messes to manage.

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My Best-Laid Plans to Raise the Revolution

by ParentCo.

Recent events have me thinking about my daughters, wondering about all those proclamations I've made over these past ten years that I've been raising girls.

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Acknowledging The Unknowns Of Raising Kids With A Smartphone In Your Hand

by ParentCo.

With the average adult spending four hours a day on their phone, our own use of technology – and concessions about overuse – are also slowly coming to light.

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