Families Articles

1). Why first borns fuss, seconds are resilient and youngests like to laugh By : Michael Grose
How can two or three children in the same family be so different? They are brought up in the same broad social environment, under a similar set of rules and an identical family value system. They also come from the same genetic pool yet they can be so different in personality, interests and achievement. While they may be born into the same family they are not born into the same position.
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2). Child Discipline: What Really Works? By : Debra Slater
One thing I hate to do is discipline my son. He is such a good boy most of the time, but when he gets angry he is awful! Disciplining your child is one of the hardest things to do as a parent. It is important that they understand that you are in charge, not them. I remember getting spankings until I was around 6 or 7 years old. I did everything I could to avoid making my mother and father angry.
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3). Weaving the Brokenness - Healing the Wound of Mother Abandonment By : Linda Joy Myers
My daughter puts her arms around me, her brown eyes soft and beckoning. Her rounded belly and motherly curves rest against me, and for a moment I choke up. She is pregnant with a girl baby whose middle name will be Joy like mine. She will be my first grand-daughter, and my second grandchild. I was named Joy by my great-grandmother, Blanche, the mother of my grandmother Lulu, who spent much of her childhood living with Blanche’s mother.
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4). Ghost Mothers By : Linda Joy Myers
So many women talk about their relationships with their mothers—no matter how old they are. For some, their mother, from whom they have supposedly separated long ago, still occupies a central place in the psyche. She’s too close, she’s too much. She has advice, is nosy, and interferes. The daughter wants time away, she wants boundaries, and fights for her separation from her mother.
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5). A National Holiday for Tolerance and Parenting (Part 1) By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is explained in classrooms, to our children and grandchildren, in simplistic terms. Just this past week, I was surprised to listen to local children’s views on the subject. They explained discrimination with such acceptance that I just listened in amazement.
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6). Packaged Trips For Families By : Richard Rspad
Let’s face the simple truth. About the only time you are going to get the family to sit down, turn off the phone and pay attention is on a family outing. A trip package is just the ticket to get this done. Packaged Trips For Families Family trips can be expensive and hard to plan. You have to choose a destination, book flights or other travel methods, accommodations and plan for activities, all for a group.
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7). Abandoned Again—How We Repeat Our Childhood in the Present By : Linda Joy Myers
The woman on the couch looks up at me miserably, tears in her eyes, as she tells me about her most recent bad relationship. “I’m sick of choosing guys who aren’t there for me. They seem great, they want me, they tell me how terrific I am, then either they have an affair, or turn on me once we are involved, getting that cold look in their eyes. I can see they don’t care after all.
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8). Meet the Twixters! By : Michael Grose
There is a new stage of development for parents to consider. The stages of development are roughly the following: children move from infancy, to early childhood and onwards to middle childhood. These stages take roughly the first ten or so years of life. Our children then move into a long stage known as adolescence (with a number three sub-stages) that is a transition phase into adulthood.
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9). Adoption Is An Option By : Debra Slater
If a couple has been trying for sometime to conceive and have done everything they could to do so, then maybe they could consider adoption. There are so many babies and children in the world looking for a mother and father. Couples can choose to adopt a child in their home country or one from abroad. There have been those couples who have adopted children from several different countries.
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10). Church On the Run By : Beverly Vines-Haines
The American church is going AWOL. One family, one pastor, one person at a time, people are walking away. These departures have gone largely unnoticed, but there is an exodus and it is well underway. Christianity is not for sissies.
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11). Connecting the Past and the Present: Healing Abandonment and Abuse through Awareness By : Linda Joy Myers
Many people I work with in therapy or in my writing-as-healing classes discover stories that surprise them—stories about the mistakes they felt their parents made, power imbalances in the family, or stories about physical or sexual abuse. The darker stories are often a surprise: when writers sat down to write, those issues were not directly on their minds, but deep, revealing stories erupted from the pen.
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12). The secrets to improving kids' behaviour By : Michael Grose
Most parents at some stage are driven to distraction by one or more of their children’s annoying habits or behaviours, whether it is a toddler who continually whines, a school-aged child who leaves clothes lying around or a teenager who uses a less than pleasant vocabulary. How to affect change is a challenge for many parents. Do you ignore a child’s.
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13). Talking About Strangers… By : Debra Slater
A parents worst nightmare: your child goes missing. No one saw anything, no one knows what happened. One minute your child is there, then they’re gone. How can you prevent this from happening? There are approximately 2,100 reports of missing children filed every day. As alarming as that sounds, the majority of children make it through their childhood safely.
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14). You Can’t See The Family Reunion For The Trees: Designs For Family Reunion T-Shirts By : Mandar
You’ve been given the job of getting t-shirts for your family reunion. The first thing that comes to mind for a design is a tree that incorporates various family members’ names. Unfortunately, this is the first thing that comes to most people’s minds and so you see that design everywhere. The following are some t-shirt design ideas that might get you out of the family reunion forest.
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15). FOUR WAYS TO FREE/LOW COST TRAVEL AROUND GREECE...AND NOT ONLY! By : Liana200
1. Free lodging! Find a pen friend. Maybe you haven’t thought of this. It’s the best solution to your budget problems, but you can’t have it overnight! Greek people are hospitable and so are other countries’ people if you become friends with. It’s the simplest thing to do if you like writing letters or just exchanging cards and souvenirs. I’ve done it and a lot of other people have, why not you? Your friend will probably be happy to put you up for a couple of nights and show you around as well.
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16). Top 10 Companies That Offer Baby Freebies! By : Kathleen Brooks
By the time you find out you’re pregnant (pregnancy test $15) to the time junior blows out the candles on his first birthday cake (cake $20), parents can expect to spend upwards of $18,000. And that’s on baby's first year alone. By the time junior reaches 18, the average middle-income family will spend $160,140, according to recent government calculations.
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17). And The Debate Continues - Cloth vs. Disposable Diapers By : Debra Slater
Cloth or disposable? Which one is better? This debate has been going on since the 70s and 80s. And it continues today with each side saying the other is the superior product. But cloth diapers are making a comeback with new flushable liners. Cloth diapers are what all mothers used until disposable diapers became mainstream. These diapers are not as convenient or easy to dispose.
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18). Families That Hit Pine Cones Together Stay Together By : Duane Shinn
It is said that families that pray together stay together. I think it’s almost equally true that families that play together stay together. If play time is the glue of family life, our family is a sticky crew!
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19). Is Travel with your Kids a Monumental Family Disaster? By : Kathy Steinemann
Whatever your mode of travel, there will be special challenges if you take the kids along. The key to sanity is some careful planning - and a calm, unruffled approach. * Where Should we Stay? * If you are planning at stay at a bed and breakfast, do some research. Many bed and breakfasts are not suitable for children. However, you may be able to find a 'farmstay' - a bed and breakfast on a farm that allows your kids to interact with the animals.
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20). Mommy...It's Football Season. Daddy's All Weird Again. By : J Gardener
If you’re a football widow and the mother of a small child, it’s a question you may have to face this fall. You may be hit with variations: “Why does Daddy paint his face blue (red/green/silver, etc.)?”; “Why does Daddy yell at the TV?”; or, “Why does Daddy hate the blind man named ‘Ref’?” Over the years, you’ve come to dread September, but you’ve managed to cope with this dirty little family secret.
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21). The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ goes well with chiropractic care. By : Wintergreen
Common Knowledge Trust approached Jeanne Ohm, Executive Coordinator of ICPA to write some articles about The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ for ICPA. When asked what aspects of childbirth, ICPA has concerns about, Jeanne wrote back ‘We are concerned about all aspects of birth—1) a woman's right to choose 2) the importance of her being aware of her options 3) the physiological relationship of pelvis and birth’.
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22). Truth or Lie: Fiction vs. Memoir—How Memoir Writers Can Approach Truth and Healing By : Linda Joy Myers
The recent flap about James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces has hit the media with a big bang, bringing the age-old debate about what is acceptable when writing memoir--a “real” story. Every time a memoir is released that gains media attention this debate is raised. Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club, Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird, and Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments, all defended their memoirs in various medias, and all said that some recreations of actual reality had to occur in order to write the story and make it interesting.
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23). Beginning Your Memoir Despite Family Guilt and Critic Voices By : Linda Joy Myers
When we first decide to write, we feel good about it—we have memories and stories that form who we are. We want to explore ourselves, to capture times long gone and preserve them in story form. To leave a legacy about our lives. But other voices compete with our writing—“what will people think; you should be ashamed; you will embarrass the family. Don’t air dirty laundry; you know only part of the truth, so be quiet.
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24). The keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn't tell you By : Michael Grose
There are many things to like about the television show Super Nanny that has captured the public interest recently. First, the nanny character is very likeable, if a little scary at times. She has that old-fashioned school-teacher demeanour that says, ‘Listen up. I know best and I am in charge here.’ Many of the families featured need someone who takes charge.
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25). New Internet Filter and Kid Safe Web browser keeps Internet safe for kids. By : Greg Writer
Finally there is a solution for parents and grandparents who want to allow their children the freedom to surf the Internet without the fear that they may stumble across the “wrong things” online. Children’s Educational Network has designed a very unique, free Internet filter and parental control multiple themed “Kid Safe Browser” which is the gateway to what they call TUKI.
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