Parenting Kids

Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Cards and Peer Pressure

May 14, 2013

Peer pressure or pack mentality can stir up a lot of trouble for a child who would never think of breaking the law, hurting another person’s feelings or destroying property. A child who obeys parents and respects others may be emboldened to go against everything he knows on a simple dare. Eleven-year-old Bobby has been [...]

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Stop Children’s Fighting Over Toys

May 9, 2013

When parents buy a toy for their children, we have visions of happy, smiling children enjoying the toy. Ideally, all the children in one family will share toys, especially if it would be too expensive to buy one for each child. Too often though, children end up fighting over the toys; they are miserable while [...]

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Children Being Bad: Caught On Tape!

May 7, 2013

My daughter Chelsey was nine-years-old and driving me nuts over the simplest things. I wished my Parents Anonymous group members could see what I was dealing with every morning. That gave me an idea, I would tape record our school morning routine, then play it at the meeting and let the other members hear it— [...]

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Social Skills of My Eight Year Old Daughter in MMORPGs

May 6, 2013

Technological entertainment is a way of life for much of today’s societies. As I am a gamer myself, how am I to restrict social interaction from my eight-year-old who is coming into her own gaming? Thanks to the efforts of Disney, Sony, and a slew of other developers interaction for young children on the Internet [...]

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What We Learned from a Missing Frying Pan

May 2, 2013

Many years ago my favorite non-stick frying pan disappeared from its usual place in the kitchen and I could not find it for the life of me. For more than a week I looked everywhere: in the oven, in the pantry, under the island, in the cabinets, under the sink and even in the refrigerator. [...]

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A Child’s Mistake: Holding a Grudge

April 25, 2013

Attending my Parents Anonymous group was the best thing I could have done for my daughters Chelsey and Katie. All the parenting I learned from my own parents about was either wrong or illegal. I just did not want to treat my girls the way I had been treated as a child. Having thrown out [...]

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