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Ten Commandments of Co-Parenting

1. Resolve conflicts without putting kids in the middle. This requires being objective about your children's needs (and not confusing them with your own) and compromising when the situation ...
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How to plan for spring break in your blended family

It is time to look past winter and start planning for your spring break with your blended family. This is the best time of all, as our younger kids and step kids are off from school, and our college ...
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Nonresidential Parents are Parents, Too

Children do better in life if both parents remain involved in their lives following divorce. And nonresidential parents--the parents that the children don’t live with--are "single ...
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Co-parenting with Your Ex and Making Joint Custody Work

Cooperative co-parenting with your ex can give your children continued stability and close relationships with both parents—but it certainly isn’t easy. In reality, putting aside ...
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5 Reasons One Parent Should Stay at Home

If you total every expense from child care and health care to groceries and recreation, the first 18 years of a child's life can cost a small fortune -- $190,528 to be exact. Child care alone can ...
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5 Reasons One Parent Should Stay at Home

If you total every expense from child care and health care to groceries and recreation, the first 18 years of a child's life can cost a small fortune -- $190,528 to be exact. Child care alone can ...
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How I Made My Child Feel like a Failure

Have you ever done something really stupid or without thought that directly affected one of your kids? It could have been something very minor, or something that potentially impacts them for the rest ...
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Halle Berry's Ex Gabriel Aubry Investigated for Child Endangerment

Actress Halle Berry is taking Gabriel Aubry, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her only child, to court over charges of child endangerment and battery. The incident involves the couple's ...
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Parents Who Kept Child's Gender a Secret Took Things Too Far

Remember that old Saturday Night Live character " Pat ," whose gender was impossible to decipher? It prompted everyone who encountered him/her to ask polite, yet pointed questions in an ...
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Does Childhood Stress Stay with You for Your Whole Life?

No matter how big the toothless smiles, how many toys are packed into the playroom, how perfect the family holiday photo seems, many children experience some kind of stress while they are growing up ...
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My Kid is Nice to Everyone...But Me

My kid' nice to everyone — but me "She's such a sweet kid!" That's my six-year-old's teacher talking at our parent-teacher conference the other week. My husband kicks ...
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More adoptive moms learn to breast-feed their babies

After years of hoping, planning and waiting, Anne Schaeffer finally held her adopted son in her arms – and breast-fed him. Once upon a time, adoptive breast-feeding, or induced lactation, was ...
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San Jose Mom Accused of Tossing Toddler out Window

A San Jose mother accused of tossing her toddler son out a second-story apartment window on Christmas Day has been charged with child abuse and child endangerment. Santa Clara County prosecutors say ...
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Teen obesity tied to poor mom-child relationship

Toddlers who have poor relationships with their moms are more likely to pack on extra pounds as they grow up, a new U.S. study shows. Tracking nearly 1,000 kids into their teens, researchers found ...
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Do Your Kids Accuse You Of Ruining Their Social Lives? ..

10 Worst Things Parents Do to Ruin Kids’ Social Lives Let’s face it, friends play an enormous part of our children’s self-esteem and success quotient for life. I’m often asked ...
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Talking to Your Kids About Same-Sex Relationships ..

It’s become readily apparent that my children are growing up faster than I can grab a handbook and immediately tackle any given parenting situation. Recently my 7-year-old has been actively ...
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7 Toxic Parenting Styles. Are You Guilty? ..

Ah, the joys of raising our next generation! Frankly, I can’t imagine any other job that is more challenging and rewarding, frustrating and joyous than parenting . It’s perhaps the most ...
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5 Most Controversial Parenting Stories of 2011

2011 was a year of kindness and controversy, victory and vehemence. As many Americans struggled to make ends meet, we witnessed many fine (and some not so fine ) examples of parents at their best and ...
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What your Grandkids Won't Tell You

Keep In Touch Just because your grandchildren aren't reaching out to you doesn't mean they don't want to be in touch —and those once-a-year holiday visits or birthday phone calls ...
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10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (and One Thing I Absolutely Love)

A writer at Newsweek wrote last year about how her son - and the general state of being that is motherhood - is torturing her. Then a writer at Jezebel responded to the story with something very close ...
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Which Type of Dad Are You?

A well-meaning father grapples with how to set limits. What he learned could change how you raise your kids . At the dinner table, Henry asked me if we were going to what he called "The Spanish ...
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5 Things You Shouldn't Tell Your Child

A stupid lie ruins your credibility, but a smart one keeps the kids happy and healthy. You know to stick to the truth, but here's where it pays to be creative. When They Wouldn't Understand ...
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Proper Dinner Table Etiquette to Teach Your Kids

Active involvement is needed at an early age to get children acquainted with proper dinner table manners and etiquette. Some parents prefer to wait but the fact is that the earlier etiquette education ...
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How to reduce stress of parenting toddlers

We have been there, seen it and done it all, but nothing can reduce the stress of parenting a toddler. It’s the same story day after day though each new morning brings in new stress causes. ...
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The Emphasis on Co-parenting

There is an enormous need to emphasize sensitivity in co-parenting. Maxine's family has lived with the blessings and challenges of a blended family for over thirty years. She brings to her writing ...
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