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They Say: Ten Ways To Be A More Light-Hearted Parent
Being a parent is a pretty serious endeavour. With all the stress and intense responsibility, it can be challenge to get through the day while maintaining a positive outlook. Gretchen Rubin, of the Happiness Project, recently penned a list for Huffington Post entitled Ten Ways to Be a More Light-Hearted Parent to aid those who need to inject more h...
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Parenting Techniques Work For Grownups Too
On the face of it, this sounds horrible: using parenting techniques on your spouse. I get deeply, deeply irritated by the “sitcom dad” stereotype which holds up all husbands and fathers as bumbling childlike idiots who just need to shut up and listen to their ever-wise wives. This is wrong on many levels: first, it’s untrue. Most of the guys...
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They Say: Younger Mothers More Confident With Parenting Skills
Do older parents stress too much? Or are young mums just naive? That's the question we're pondering today after the release of a new report which has found that young mothers are more likely to think that good parenting is innate. A report to be released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies finds 58 per cent of mothers aged under...
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On Fatherhood
As a new Dad, I’m often struck by how much support, and how many forums such as this one, new mums have access to. Don’t get me wrong, being a new Mum is a tough gig and I think it’s a great thing that ideas and discussion can be facilitated across the miles; that common bonds and experiences can be shared and maybe the load and uncertainty...
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Generation Xers Break From The Boomers In Work-Life Balance
Most of us, I think, plan to parent differently than our parents did to some degree. And sometimes that can whip itself into something that really seems generational in nature versus just simple family dynamics. For example, the GenXers, people my age, pretty much parent differently than our own parents, the baby boomers did. Balancing parent...
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Why Daddies Don’t Babysit
Let it be known that my husband is a saint - a superb dad, a model husband. But he doesn't babysit. For that matter - no father worth his salt babysits. They parent. Since my first outing alone after giving birth - a whopping twenty-minute run to the supermarket and back - I've been haunted by the same question. "Oh, your daughter's not wi...
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Should You Drink For The Kids?
Last week, New York Times blogger Paul Clarke suggested that drinking in moderation is a good parenting tactic, as it gives children an example of how to — and how not to — drink themselves, when the day arrives. The theory goes that extremes in either direction — bingeing on alcohol or shunning it completely — will give kids an unrealistic...
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‘I Don’t Love MyDaughter’, Woman Tells World
Spare a thought for 11 year-old Catherine Price. Her mother confessed yesterday that she has never bonded with Catherine, and in fact feels like she is someone else's child. Blame it on PND or some other psychological condition, but mother Shelley has never felt any love for her oldest child. She has tried a couple of times over the years to spe...
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Parent Training An Alternative To Meds For ADHD
If you’re facing a diagnosis of ADHD with your child, you might be struggling with the idea of medicating such a little person, but also worrying about his or her future if they can’t get their behaviour straightened out. Newer research is suggesting, though, that training the parents can be just as effective as medication for kids with ADH...
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