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How to Be Helpful to Parents in Public
Jenny Kanevsky offers much needed guidance for what to do and what not to do when you see parents struggling with their kids. ___ Either keep quiet or support your fellow parent, and human being....
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A Dad Shares the Secret on How to Love Them Even When They Act Unlovable
Dad blogger Daniel has been shocked at the moments his little angels turn into little devils. He is ready to toss in the towel until one thought crosses his mind and changes his whole perspective....
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3 Ways to Discipline Your Child More Effectively—and With Love
Ty Phillips shares his simple, practical wisdom for keeping your kids on the right path. ___ The need to correct our children when they go wrong can, at times, feel more like a punishment for us than...
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How My Husband Tempered My Tantrums
View image | gettyimages.com Christine Walker shares how her husband’s grace and acceptance brought them trust, and allowed her to let go of her fear and anger. The night I got engaged, my family sat...
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Kids: The Trickiest of Treats
Arianna Jeret shares a Halloween tale of delayed gratification for children & parents. — Last night I was watching a documentary on the development of Halloween. Among the wide variety of tales...
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The GMP Dads Workshop: How to Deal With a Tantrum
Tantrums suck! They can make being a parent unbearable and homelife miserable IF you don’t know what you are doing. Here are 5 Steps to mastering these wickedly challenging moments. — Tantrums suck!...
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Moment In Question
Ask, Don’t Tell On a commute home this past week, I caught the end of an interview with James E. Ryan, author of Wait, What? The Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education’s book thesis is simple:...
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Tantrums Be Gone
Embed from Getty Images — Dear Mr. Dad: My 3-year old throws tantrums all the time. When she does it at home, I can handle it, but when we’re out in public and she goes nuts, I find it very hard to...
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Triggers, Tantrums and Judgments
Lately there are times I felt judgmental. I felt like I am not being the unconditional person I want to be. Why do certain events and/or people trigger that emotion in me? I’ve been searching for the...
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Embed from Getty Images — I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. I was raised on a family farm where hard work was expected every day. My father was a difficult man. He seemed angry...
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22 Discipline Ideas That Really Work – Part 2
— Last week I introduced the first 10 of my 22 field-tested strategies for disciplining toddlers. Here are the remaining 12. 1. Get down to your child’s level. When you’re talking to your...
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An Engineer’s Guide to Handling Temper Tantrums
If you see a kid having a public temper tantrum and want to either blame the parents or blame the people who hate the parents, maybe you don’t understand temper tantrums. Pete Beisner offers advice....
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5 Reasons the Terrible Twos Are Turning My Hair Grey
I think half the problem is that I’m used to people exaggerating. As a parent, I’d worked my way through all the stages that are supposed to be hell on earth: sleepless nights, teething, separation...
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Training for Tantrums
The time has come once more at the hospital where I work for our annual in-service training, our yearly reminder of all the things that state and federal regulations say that we should know. Gone are...
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Tantrums Be Gone
Dear Mr. Dad: My 3-year old throws tantrums all the time. When she does it at home, I can handle it, but when we’re out in public and she goes nuts, I find it very hard to cope. I’ve tried time outs,...
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Help Your Child Control Anger, Before It Controls Them
How commonly do you come across this sight? A child shouting and throwing tantrums in a superstore over a purchase, or in fact, the non-purchase of some item. Or a child screaming at the top of their...
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My Name is Mama
My name is Mama, not Dada. My name is Mama, not *raspberry noise.* My name is Mama, not “quack.” My name is Mama. Mama. You can say it. I know you can. You’ve made the noises. You know who I am. My...
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5 Simple Solutions for Your Toddler’s Epic Temper Tantrums
The grocery store triggers my son for some reason. It never fails. We’ve made it successfully to the milk aisle. I’ve managed to bypass the display of Hot Wheels without him noticing, and it’s fine;...
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Temper Tantrums and Terrible Twos — What’s a Dad To Do?
By National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse You’re at the supermarket, and your daughter is focused on a bag of chocolate candies. When you take them from her, she throws herself on the floor,...
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Annoying Things Kids Do (That Are Signs of Healthy Growth)
My kids are the single greatest source of joy in my life. But sometimes they just do really annoying things that frustrate the heck out of me. They have tantrums, they refuse to eat foods they’ve...
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