How To Reduce Childcare Costs Next to rent or mortgage payments, childcare often ranks as the second-highest expenditure in a household budget. Working couples can pay a whopping 10-20% ... Read Full Story | Comments (1)

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Imperfect Parenting Shortly after having my first baby, I decided I was going to be the perfect parent. I immediately began to keep an intelligent library of child-rearing ... Read Full Story | Comments (1)

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How Do You Encourage Self Confidence in Girls? Several studies show that girls' self-esteem and self-confidence tends to decline after about age nine as girls enter puberty. How do you encourage self ... Read Full Story | Comments (1)

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7 Steps To Control Childhood Asthma Asthma is the most common chronic (long-term) childhood disease. In America about nine million children are diagnosed with asthma. Up to ten per cent ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Self-Image and Health: Protecting Our Children It is not a surprise to most people that health studies point to popular culture as a perpetrator of body image which has corresponded to the self image ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Best Sunscreens for Kids When you're standing in the aisle of your local pharmacy or superstore shopping for sunscreens for your kids, you might be a little overwhelmed by the ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Teaching Your Child Healthy Hygiene Habits Once your child begins walking, he will become more and more independent. Toddlers and preschoolers want to try to do a number of things on their own ... Read Full Story | Comments (2)

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Getting Help for Troubled Teens: When and Where to Go When your teenager starts to get out of hand you have to ask yourself some hard questions. The first step is to honestly evaluate how you think you're ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Product Review: First-Aid Kits Scraped knees, nosebleeds or beestings can occur at any given moment and send you running for a first-aid kit. Moms know that when it comes to accidents, ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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America's Youth Drowning In Happiness When it comes to our children's happiness, less is more. That's the surprising perspective of one Chicago psychologist concerned about the rising rates ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Mother Love The mother-child bond is critical to healthy development. Love between the two is even biochemically hard-wired. We need to take note as society moves ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Do You Resent Your Partner? Have you ever felt a deep pang of irritation at something involving your spouse? Has that irritation progressed to a gnawing anger that you harbor for ... Read Full Story | Comments (2)

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Make Each of Your Kids Feel Special When that first child comes along, it may feel like you couldn't possibly give out the same amount of love to another child. Yet it doesn't take long ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Making Reading to Your Child a Habit Words can open up a world of knowledge and adventure for your children, and reading to them is so important in their development. Here are 5 ways to make ... Read Full Story | Comments (2)

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High Blood Pressure: Is Your Child At Risk? "High blood pressure in kids? That's what my grandmother has!" Nearly 2 out of 3 American adults have unhealthy blood pressure. Hypertension, or high ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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Can You Stay Home? One of the first things you have to figure out when you realize that you want to stay home with your kids is whether or not you can afford to do so. You ... Read Full Story | Comments (2)

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Confidence or Arrogance: What Kind of Child Are You Raising? We all know the feeling...the moment of pride when someone notices how outspoken or articulate our child is. We bask in the knowledge that our child is ... Read Full Story | Comments (2)

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6 Ways to Ruin Your Children Kids don't come with an instruction manual, and there's no such thing as a perfect parent. You can read as many books as possible, talk to all the moms ... Read Full Story | Comments (126)

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Ten Tips to Tame Your Child's Temper Tantrums David's mother explained, "Whenever David doesn't get his way he throws himself on the floor, screams, kicks and cries incessantly. What can we do to ... Read Full Story | Comments (7)

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Changing Your Child's Behavior with Positive Reinforcement Think about your interactions with your children today. How many things did you notice they did wrong? What did you do or say to them because of their ... Read Full Story | Comments (0)

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