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10 Tips for Positive Parenting

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Sometimes, parenting skills can be learned from the most unlikely places. Like business, for example. I’ve had my own business, managed businesses for others, and worked for a number of employers, both good and bad. The following positive parenting tips all come from lessons I’ve learned during those experiences, and I hope you’ll find something [...]

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Personal Development for Parents: Our Worst Enemy

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Personal development and self improvement are topics that really resonate with me, because I struggled for many years with trying to be what everyone else wanted me to be, and I always felt somewhat inferior as a result. Becoming a parent brought those feelings to the surface, and has forced me to constantly take personal [...]

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It’s Not Called Permissive Parenting

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The world is full of followers, but you’re not one of them. – JL Glass I once attended a seminar taught by JL Glass (he’s a very funny, charismatic speaker), and he mentioned that he tells his kids that. It got me to thinking about all of the messages we give our children, both verbally [...]

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Good Smells Promote Good Behavior

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Scents in our homes may be affecting our kids’ behavior, if we extrapolate the information from a new study on the relationship between ethical behavior and smell. When in a clean-smelling environment, people tend to be more generous and fair, which may give you some ideas for your parenting strategy.

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Engagement, Ritual, and Work (video)

How can we as dads (and moms) engage more with our partners and our children? What kind of rituals do we participate in, or create, as families, to honor the changing of the seasons and to celebrate each other? Knowing that kids mimic our actions, if we don’t work in a field that our children [...]

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Fatherhood: 100 Ways to be a Better Father

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Fatherhood is a tricky proposition. We all want to be great dads, but chances are, our fathers never sat down with us and taught us how to be one. And we don’t necessarily want to be our fathers. I mean, we want to emulate their positive influence on us, but we also want to do [...]

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Hands Off! Children Who are Spanked Have Lower IQs

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The results of new research by a sociology professor show that children who get spanked have lower IQs than those who were not spanked, and those who were frequently spanked show a slower development of mental ability. “All parents want smart children. This research shows that avoiding spanking and correcting misbehavior in other ways can [...]

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Parenting Widens the Political Gender Gap

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According to new research from North Carolina State University, women become more liberal and men become more conservative as they become parents. “Parenthood seems to heighten the political ‘gender gap,’ with women becoming more liberal and men more conservative when it comes to government spending on social welfare issues.” – Dr. Steven Greene, NC State

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Teach What You Know

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Homeschool is always in. When we first started homeschooling our oldest daughter, we thought that we needed to have a full curriculum and study guides and other ‘teaching’ materials before we could really teach her at home. We borrowed a homeschool curriculum from a friend and started exploring what it meant to provide a homeschool [...]

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Enjoy the Now: Being Present With Your Children

October is Attachment Parenting Month and “Giving Our Children Presence” is the theme. Here’s my contribution: In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. -from the [...]

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