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Trash, Truth, Treasure: How to React When Someone Says Hurtful Things
The concept of "Trash, Truth, Treasure"
What to Do When Your Child Has a Hard Time Losing
Resilience and respect: Learning to “win at losing"
What’s Good About Being an Angry Parent?
Anger is tough to understand. Many parents, in an effort to stop their kids’ misbehavior, tend to react quickly. This reaction usually doesn’t give much thought to the deeper layers of what’s going on in both the child and the…
Helping Kids with Their Anger
Kids get angry sometimes. So do we. But is it pure anger, or is there something more? It turns out that much of what appears as anger is actually a more tangled and confusing set of feelings like fear, sadness,…
My Child Doesn’t Care About Consequences
When your child shows no remorse, try this instead.
Encouraging Kids Who “Just Don’t Care!” | Ep. 88
Does it feel like your child just doesn’t care? Maybe even saying the words, “I just don’t care!” Does your child seem unmotivated in school, defensive about doing chores, maybe even withdrawn and depressed? It is so hard to know…
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11 Ideas to Help You Stop Yelling at Your Kids
Ideas from Scripture and Science to Develop a “Gentle Tongue”
Scared to launch your child into the “real world”?
If you’re the parent of an older teen or young adult, the thought of launching your child into the world can be frightening; particularly if they have shown very few signs that they will be able to handle “real life”…
Resilient Children: 15 Little Opportunities to Grow Overcomers at Home
Have you ever wondered, “What makes resilient children so resilient?” or, “Is it nature or nurture that creates resilient children?” Some kids seem to arrive in the world ready to take on anything. They’re optimistic, they see the good in…
How to Take Advantage of Sibling Rivalry to Explain Emotions and Feelings to a Child
Few things can be more frustrating as a parent than trying to mediate sibling rivalry. You want your kids to be friends but instead they are fighting, badgering, and teasing each other. It feels like you are getting nowhere! You…
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