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Witness the power of practical gift-giving
If your kids are like mine, their Christmas wish lists are in various stages of revision, changing as often as new holiday commercials grace their eyes and ears.
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Children's author finds path to success through failure
Everyone's path to success is different, and sometimes it's birthed from failure.
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Life Notes: Saving our nation's children
Before I became a parent, trends in K-12 education, concerns about child nutrition and the debate over quality television for youths didn't faze me.
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Life Notes: Parents can improve kids' school experience
If you're one of those parents (like me) who regularly asks your children, "How was school today?" a noted child psychologist says we deserve the rote answer we often get.
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Life Notes: Helping a child cope with a loved one's suicide
Shirley Ramsey was 8 when her mother killed herself, and for the longest time, Ramsey believed she was to blame.
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Children are suffering in faltering economy
You know times are tough when children begin monitoring the economy.
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Life Notes: Parents who live vicariously through their children can do great harm
In times like these, in which opportunities abound for self-expression and self-improvement, it's surprising that some parents try to live vicariously through their children.
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Tips on how to thrive as a single parent
According to national research, more than 21 million American children live in single-parent homes.
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Life Notes: Permissive parenting can be harmful
Just as there are no cookie-cutter kids, parenting methods aren't one-size fits all.
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Life Notes: Parenting young children is hard work, but rewarding
A friend is having her first child soon, and I have a touch of baby fever.
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Life Notes: Celebrating Father's Day year-round
A week past Father's Day, I can't help but wonder whether dads continue to lament their fate.
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Life Notes: Surviving parental peer pressure
To the mom who recently chided me for a parenting decision she thought was inappropriate: I applaud you.
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Life Notes: Parenting a child who has autism
Stacylee's red hair and blue eyes are usually the first things new friends notice about her, not that she happens to have autism.
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Life Notes: A parent's grief transforms into empowerment
It's a troubling phenomenon that many children who are sexually abused become the victims of someone they know and trust.
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LIFE NOTES: Too much, too soon for kids
It's almost a rite of passage for teens and tweens to squabble with parents about fashion, music and TV viewing habits, but these days the battle lines are being drawn sooner.
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Life Notes: Curbing sibling rivalry
If you’re the parent of more than one child, no matter the difference in their ages, siblings will likely become rivals, even if only briefly.
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What can Bieber mania teach us about change?
Was your daughter or a young girl you know in a frenzy recently when teen singer Justin Bieber cut his famous locks?
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LIFE NOTES: Helping girls thrive prevents eating disorders
Catherine Steiner-Adair will visit Richmond on Thursday to inform parents how one's social and emotional environments impact girls' self-confidence.
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Life Notes: Starting early is right on time for kindergarten's first steps
Terry Hill slides on a pair of "magic" glasses the day school begins and assures her kindergartners that although she may be reading to them now, soon they will read on their own.
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Life Notes: Documentary highlights the effects of academic and achievement stress on kids
Where are your kids headed? If your answer is certain because their academic and extracurricular paths are so well scripted, they could potentially be barreling toward stress, burnout or worse.
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Make personal fitness goals a family affair
Are you one of the many Americans who vowed on Jan. 1 to eat better, exercise more and shed a few pounds?
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A new year and a better you equals a better parent
I love the first few weeks of January for two significant reasons: The new year and my birthday fall during this period.
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Tips for parents who travel for business
LIFE NOTESStacy Hawkins Adams By the time you read this column I'll be back in Virginia, but it was written during a recent business trip to California for a writers conference. On the ride from the San Jose airport to Mount Hermon, we authors and editors traded stories about how our children manage when we travel for business. Several of us on the airport shuttle had children in elementary or middle school, and the consensus was that as long as we call often and take care of their personal and social needs before boarding planes or hitting the highway, the kids tend to handle our occasional absences well.
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Life Notes: Renewing your commitment to parenting well
Given the amounts of snow Virginia experienced this winter, it's likely that more than a few children and parents were thrilled to greet the arrival of spring yesterday. I have to be honest, though: I was among the few who loved the repeat snowfalls and being forced to hunker down at home. It was nice to have a good excuse to do nothing but watch weather reports, catch up on movies and reading, and relax. The cookie baking and snowman making did my soul, and my children's, some good.
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Play is an important part of childhood
Pause for a moment and remember how you played as a child. Did you make mud pies, build forts, hold tea parties with imaginary friends or play kickball, baseball or some other sport in the backyard or a nearby empty lot? Whatever you did to "make" your own fun, do your children have similar opportunities?
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