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Why Do I Have to Constantly Repeat Myself With My Kids?
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Our Teens’ Brains May Be Hard-Wired to Ignore Us
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How to Accept that We Cannot Control Our Children's Decisions
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Five Principles for Parents to Regroup and Recharge for the New Year
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Holidays
How To Cope When Your Children Reject You
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Holidays
Why and How to Help Your Kids Stay in Touch with Biological Family During the Holidays
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Seven More Ways to Manage Holiday Stress
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Seven Ways to Help Manage Stress Over the Holidays
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Research
Supportive Parenting Styles Correlate with Warm Relationships with Adult Children
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Why and How We Need to Manage Our Expectations for the Holidays
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Resilience
More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience
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Resilience
7 Things You Can Do if Your Child is Suffering from Anxiety
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Resilience
How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives
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How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions
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Why Accommodations Should Lead to Success, not Excuses for Failure
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Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School
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Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School
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38 School Accommodations for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma
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6 Principles for Advocating for Trauma Sensitive Teaching for Your Kids
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One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School
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Five Things to Remember When You Can't Do It All
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How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 2)
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How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 1)
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5 Important Things to Remember about Our Teens and Summer Jobs
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5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent
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Lowering Our Expectations May Be the Best Way to Lower Our Kids’ Stress
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Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological Parents
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Why We Should Give Kids More Control Over Their Lives and How to Do It
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What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors
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Four Things to Remember About How Teens Search for Identity
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Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand
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Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?
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Resilience
More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences
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Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy
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Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress
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Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors
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Case Study: We Need Boundaries to Protect Our Entire Family
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We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse
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Holidays
Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children
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Holidays
Should We Get Presents for Our Kids' Biological Parents?
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It's Important to Our Kids When We Show Up
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Resilience
One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying
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Bullying
How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma
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How to Respond When Your Child Is the Bully
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How to Help When Your Child is Being Bullied
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How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions
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One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents
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Why I Look for Low-Maintenance Consequences for Children
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How to Use Logical Consequences with Children
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How to Respond to "You Are Not My Parent!"
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Childhood Trauma
The Trap of Blaming Other People
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Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child
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Why It Is Important to Build a Family Team
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Knowing that Someone Somewhere Cares About You
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Foster Parenting
The Challenges of Parenting Gifted Foster Children
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Maybe Your Problem Child is a Gifted Child
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More About How to Respond to "It's Not Fair"
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How to Respond to "It's Not Fair!"
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Don't Forget This Free Parenting Summit
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More Thinking About "It's Not Fair!"
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Chaos to Calm Parenting Academy
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How to Think About "It's Not Fair!"
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Step-parenting
Why Quality Time is Essential to Stepparenting
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Media Appearances
Join Me and SoloMoms! Talk
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Step-parenting
Why Sacrifice Is Crucial in Stepparenting
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Seven Tips for Less Stressful Vacations
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Four Ways to Lessen Chaos in Your Family
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Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?
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How to Live in Peace With Your Teenager
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Bullying
Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying
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Bullying
Can We Find Anti-Bullying Programs that Work?
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How to Help Stepsiblings Get Along and Keep the Peace
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How to Handle Different Rules for Different Homes
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Embrace the Power of "And"
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Mental Health
Using the ADA to Help Our Children Cope with the Pandemic
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
How to Respond When Our Children's Memories are Wrong
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Dealing with the Effects of Coronavirus Lockdowns
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Strong Commitments Require Strong Boundaries
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Making a Strong Commitment Requires That We Know Our Limits
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Our Commitments Have to Be One-Way
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Commitment is Stronger than Love
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How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 2
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How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 1
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Where We Fit In The Stories Our Children Tell Themselves
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The Importance of Balancing All of Our Commitments
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Why You Should Make Your Marriage Your Top Priority
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Resilience
The Importance of Resilience and the Power of Plan B
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Foster Parenting
Three Things Not To Worry About This Year
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Foster Parenting
How To React When Your Children Ignore You During the Holidays
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Foster Parenting
Why You Should Worry About Presents for the Other Parent
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Parenting Tips
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Teaching Gratitude
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Foster Parenting
Surviving — And Thriving — During the Holidays With Foster Children
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Step-parenting
Surviving – And Thriving – During the Holidays
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Resilience
Overcoming the Self-Limiting Stories That Our Children Tell Themselves
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Resilience
Parenting Children with Trauma: Countering ACEs
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
Parenting Children with Trauma: Effects of Adverse Experiences
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Parenting Tips
What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Child
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What To Do When Your Child Does Not Want You There
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Self Care
We Are Not Responsible for Everything
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Mental Health
What to Do When Your Child Threatens Suicide
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