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Empty Nest Syndrome

Empty Nest Syndrome by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. Paula’s last child had just gone off to college and Paula was struggling with a deep inner emptiness. While she knew this day was coming, she was not really prepared for the intense hollowness that ...

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Divorce and Children Things To Consider When You're Staying Married Only For Your Children

All children are different and respond differently to divorce. Depending on the characteristics of the children - age, emotional maturity, happiness, resiliency to trauma - the easier or more difficult it will be for children to weather a divorce. As...

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Ten Ways to Prevent Obesity in Our Families

Ten Ways to Prevent Obesity in Our Families© 2003 Heidi ZatorChildren are our future and we as parents need to help them attain their highest potential. If we want to have a strongand healthy future.Today's diet is high in the simple carboh...

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10 Outcomes You Will Love Before Potty Training

1. Declaration of Independence - As walking and talking, the potty training period is a milestone of independence. Potty training can allow you and your child to Declare Your Independence, you from the controlling, autocratic, punitive potty training...

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Spare the Rod Spoil the Child

I've adapted this post from a friend (who claims to prefer the pseudonym Si Fallor Sum for artistic purposes). The less frenetic portions possessed a measure of sense to me and I have with permission subjected it to my own annotations. Mad bec...

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Josh: Gone But Not Forgotten

Two years 1 hour and 30 minutes ago today. I laid beside my precious son in his hospital bed as he took his last breath and his heart beat so purely for the last time. Kathy and I both held him in our arms as he slipped away from us. Unlike three da...

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Everything I Know About Relationship Success I Learned At The Playground

Everything I Know About Relationship Success I Learned At The Playground by: Stanley J. Leffew It happened again! I was enjoying an evening with my little 2-yr. old son at the playground when, BAM, it happened. You ever have one of those moment...

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Obese Mothers Make Obese Kids!

Obese Mothers Make Obese Kids! by: Jasdeep Singh A study published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that the doctors start giving attention to the children of overweight parents very early- by the age of 4 at the latest. "We foun...

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Gaining a Child’s Trust

My daughters and I went to the beach several weeks ago. They were having a blast playing in the freezing cold water as I tiptoed around the waves, trying to keep my feet from becoming frost bitten. Next to us in the water was a mother with her daught...

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ADD / ADHD Children Being Your Child's Best Friend

Do you live with an ADD / ADHD child? If so my hat is off to you! ADD / ADHD children are brilliant, full of energy, smart as a whip (as grandma says), and tons of work. They are also the rising sun and the setting star: meaning much of life revolves...

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