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Parenting Solutions: Ways to Advance Your Child's Spiritual Life

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For children to live balanced lives, parents need to help them grow not only physically, emotionally, and intellectually, but spiritually as well.

Parenting Solutions: Helping Children Know When It's Important To Fit In … and When It's Not

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Some children have a hard time balancing the desire to adjust to peer-group behavior with the need to draw the line when urged to join in inappropriate activities.

Behind the Mask of Teenage Anger

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It takes patience and determination to help a troubled teen identify and manage his feelings of anger. But a willingness to care and listen may be enough to save a young man’s future.

Parenting Solutions: Helping Children to Be Good Listeners

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It can sometimes be exasperating to get children to listen, but there are several positive ways for adults to get through to them.

Parenting Solutions: Including Children in the Family Grieving Process

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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.

Parenting Solutions: Getting Children to Cooperate

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The ability to work well in one’s family and with others is one of the most valuable skills a parent can help a child develop.

Parenting Solutions: Children Need Privacy to Become Self-Reliant Adults

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Parents can honor a child’s “personal space” while maintaining supervision and providing guidance.

Parenting Solutions; Being a Father Who Makes a Difference

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An effective, involved father provides an important foundation for his children and their ongoing security, stability, and development.

Parenting Solutions: Helping Children Learn Positive Values From Sports Heroes

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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.

Parenting Solutions: How children Can Overcome Shyness

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Parents and others can help a child who’s ill at ease in social situations say “goodbye to shy.”