How to Protect Your Children from Negative Outside Influences

How to Protect Your Children from Negative Outside Influences

The negative outside influences of sex, violence and drugs has taken over our society on every level. Sexual innuendos and horrific violent acts mostly fueled by the use of illegal drugs have become the accepted ingredients for entertainment in music, movies, TV shows, video games and books. As a result of these negative influences today’s generationcontinue reading

Our Children Pay the Price for What We Deny in Ourselves

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Our children pay the price for what we deny in ourselves. My husband and I recently attended a social gathering where we were seated with two other couples we have known for quite some time. They were all what many would consider upper middle class with families and respectable jobs…all highly respected in the community.continue reading

Helping Teens Become More Independent

Helping Teens Become More Independent

The great thing about teenagers is that they really want to be independent, so this part of your job is rather simple in that it’s something they really want. But it can be hard to know when to loosen the leash.  However, like most things in life, with independence comes responsibility. It’s our job ascontinue reading

Helping Your High Schooler Manage Time

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School is now in full swing and gone are the lazy of summer.  When you think about the life of a teenager, you can see that they have a lot to stay on top of.  Between school work, homework, getting to class on time, curfews and more, teens should learn how to properly manage theircontinue reading

Easy Tips and Tools to Teach Your Children Time Management!

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  Do you ever feel like if you could just get your children to understand the value of managing their time you could let go of a lot of stress?   Whether it is getting ready to go to school, getting ready for bed or doing their homework it can sometimes seem like our jobcontinue reading

Help Your Teen Learn Responsibility

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Part of teaching a teenager responsibility is also teaching them how to be accountable for their actions, good and bad.  The other part of helping teenagers learn responsibility is to let them go enough that they can develop their powers of reason and intellect. Teenagers, by their very physiological natures do not have fully developedcontinue reading