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Active Listening: A Communication Tool
Overview For teens and their parents, adolescence is a time of happiness and troubles. It is a time when an adolescent breaks from the past, and yet, retains some childhood behavior. As a parent of a teenager you may often feel as though your son or daughter is speaking a completely different ...
It Takes Two: Comunicating with Your Child
Do you ever feel like you and your child are speaking two different languages? If so, you aren't alone. Many parents struggle to communicate with their child. Even adults who work with children every day—teachers, coaches, or club leaders—sometimes need some communication tips. Many times ...
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Communication
Communicate Often and Well It is worthwhile to learn the art of communicating well with each other. If we do, we can...
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Having a Sense of Humor About Humor
What do you get when you cross a teddy bear with a skunk? Winnie the P.U. Mark Twain called humor mankind’s...
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Nurturing Emotional Literacy
A Good Beginning, a recent report from the Child Mental Health Foundation and Agencies Network, emphasizes that social...
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Habits How-to, Part II
This posting continues last week’s discussion of what it takes to help kids successfully break a bad habit and replace...
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Family Communication: Ideas You Can Use Every Day
Stay Connected Talk about the everyday stuff every day — If your kids learn they can trust you with the “little...
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