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Mother's Day: Parenting teenagers is like a personal action movie
Mother's Day 2012 is just around the corner, and parents of teenagers may be feeling like the parenting experience is becoming far too much like living inside an action adventure film, complete with action, romance and a lot of angst.
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Bristol Palin Makes a Spurious Marriage, Parenting Adviser
COMMENTARY | Bristol Palin, daughter of tea party leader Sarah Palin, is critiquing President Barack Obama's parenting style, says the Atlantic Wire. Palin, an unwed mom, faulted the president for claiming his daughters helped him rethink and approve gay marriage. Irony addicts, won't you join me in a chuckle at the thought of Palin putting her oar in on marriage and fathering?
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The perils of parenting ... (with a laugh on the side)
By now, news of author Melinda Rainey Thompson's literary success - and the fandom that has followed "SWAG: Southern Women Aging Gracefully," "The SWAG Life" and "I Love You - Now Hush" - has reached far beyond her demographic.
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Parenting: Marriage-absent home the real perpetrator
About 40 years ago, as divorce was becoming commonplace, America began waking up to the importance of fatherhood. Up until then, the literature on child rearing was almost exclusively mother-oriented. Fathers didn't count for much. After all, Freud had pretty much ignored them, hadn't he?
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Parenting: Some parent/child conflicts boil down to personality
It’s a concept that parents may not be familiar with, but experts say it can explain a lot about family conflicts: Is your child’s temperament a good “fit” with yours?
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Tailor your parenting style to child's personality traits
The research by child psychiatrists Drs. Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess , whose last book,"Goodness of Fit," was published in 1999, is still used by child experts today.
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'Tough love' keeps teens from binge drinking
The headlines state that one in ten teens are binge drinkers and graphic photos of them vomiting in the street paint an unflattering picture of a sub-culture out of control.
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Teens like tech, but are they losing skills in the process?
What parents need to know to help children and teenagers mature appropriately in the age of social media.
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Parents: The problem isn’t the hand sanitizer
Teenagers will go to great lengths to get high, even if it means ingesting poison, but the problem inherently lies with the parenting and culture about alcohol.
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The 'Mean Girls' effect: teenagers and the quest for popularity
The 'Mean Girls' effect: a new study shows that teenagers and the quest for popularity, depicted as 'normal' by the media and in pop culture, carries risk.
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