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The Most Important Thing Children Need Is Just Love
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The Most Important Thing Children Need Is Just Love

As long as you show your kids that you believe in them, as long as you offer them love, warmth, affection, and support, your kids are going to be just fine.

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No, Really, Your Kids Need to Do Chores

As a member of the household, and in the interest of building skills that they'll need for a lifetime, your kids should be doing chores. Here's the case for why.

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Here's How to Potty Train Your Baby

Instead of training toddlers out of a lifelong habit, the Chinese forego diapers from birth. It's a hands on approach to potty training and it works.

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It's Normal for Kids to Feel Anger, Here's How to Help

Processing anger can be difficult for children. Remember it's all part of the process. A child who wants to be a good person is going to be a good person.

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What Children Overhear Matters Now More Than Ever

Things are happening in the world right now, and we can get so caught up in it that we may not notice how it’s affecting our children.

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So, Wait – How CAN I Discipline My Child?

There are moments when positive parenting stops working. What methods of discipline won't scar them for life?

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4 Questionable Behaviors With Surprising Benefits

According to psychologists, you may not be raising a wild career criminal after all.

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The Lies I Tell My Son So That He'll Eat His Dinner

It may not be a sustainable system, but for now, lying to our kid to get him to eat healthy food seems to be working.

How to Get Your Kids to Love Eating Their Vegetables

Few kids beg to have a lunchbox full of broccoli or salad, but that doesn't mean getting them to eat their veggies has to be a chore.

What Happens When Kids Think Work is More Important Than They Are?

For a lot of families, spending more hours at work than waking hours with our kids is a way of life. But it doesn't mean they have to feel less important.

Those "Homework is Useless" Articles Are Lying to You

The "no homework" revolution has recently gained serious momentum. However, homework can be a beneficial tool to support our kids' learning.

The Heartbreaking Reality of Being a Stepparent

Despite showing up day after day to love a child as your own, step-parents are often seen as less than, replaceable, and impermanent.