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Parenting Mistakes - how to repair them

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

Here are some common parenting mistakes from parents' own behavior - our children have enormous capacity for growth and learning and absorb from us what we teach through our actions, thinking, words, and attitudes Many ...

Parenting Magic

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

Parenting magic puts together a combination of many different ingredients that will produce moments of magic and sheer delight in your parenting. Parenting Magic - 1 Learning to cope with disappointments I believe it is ...

Overprotective Parents

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

Overprotective parents generally want to protect their children from harm, from hurt and pain, from unhappiness, bad experiences and rejection, from hurt feelings, failure and disappointments. When you hear them explain it like that, it ...

Positive Self Talk

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

Teaching communication skills to children includes teaching them about positive self talk. Self talk includes both the positive and negative messages that make up our inner dialogue of thoughts. It is extremely beneficial to your ...

Self Control - an Important skill for children

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

Gaining self control refers to a child having power or control over his or her own actions. This is an important skill for all children to learn. If children always depend on others, especially their ...

Increase Concentration - What are the benefits for our children?

By Helen Williams · 16 years ago

How do we help our children increase concentration and develop a wider attention span? What benefit does increasing concentration bring? Concentration is about focused attention. It is the ability to direct attention to the exclusion ...