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Helping Scouts stick to their principles under pressure

Teaching your teens to do the right thing isn’t a game. Or maybe it should be.

Helping Children Get the Sleep They Need

The rising numbers of first graders through high school seniors who fail to get adequate rest are a wake-up call for parents to become more proactive in promoting healthy slumber.

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Building A Child’s Personal Health Record

Because much of the accuracy of a diagnosis relies on a medical and health history, parents can partner with their child’s health providers by creating and keeping a PHR up to date.

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Parenting Solutions: Using Humor to Help Guide Your Family Through Life

Kindhearted humor, lovingly applied, can be a healing balm to soothe the stresses and strengthen the standards of family life.

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Parenting Solutions: Including Children in the Family Grieving Process

When there is a death, children are often neglected mourners. But in order to adapt, adjust, and heal, children need guidance and support from significant adults.

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Parenting Solutions: Helping Children Learn Positive Values From Sports Heroes

If a child idolizes a sports superstar whose behavior is undesirable, it’s important for parents to point out that people may be fantastically talented in one thing and bad in something else.

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Parenting Solutions: Helping Your Child Avoid Obesity

Obesity in children can lead to adult weight problems and chronic disease. But unwanted pounds can be taken off overweight kids wisely and without too much fuss – or kept off those otherwise likely to gain.

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