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Making change

If you’ve followed the advice from my previous post, you’ve broken the habit of paying for good grades. But oddly enough, your child still isn’t jumping for joy to study her geography lesson. Fortunately, we have a variety of other techniques at our disposal to help your kids stick to their studies [...]

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It’s summer! For many of us, this is our favorite time of the year—the slow pace, the long days and no school activities to rush around to.
On the other hand, if we’re not careful, having the kids home all summer with no clear-cut responsibilities can slowly drive us crazy. First there’s the whining for [...]

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“Just five more minutes!” You hear it all the time—especially when you’re trying to get your kids away from the television or video games. And as summer kicks into high gear, you may already be wincing about the whining over TV time and video games.
Truth be told, there’s a lot that parents do to contribute [...]

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As a parent, the words “No, I won’t,” or “You do it,” from our kids is enough to make us cringe. In fact, back talk is the number one parenting complaint from all the parents I’ve worked with—and it can be so hard to get kids to respond to our requests without whining, eye-rolling, or [...]

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This isn’t my usual Positive Parenting Solutions blog post, so if you’re looking for advice on how to tame tantrums, wean whining, battle backtalk or any other misbehavior – you may want to go back to the website or a previous blog article!
Since I had so many people ask about my recent appearance on [...]

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New Years Resolutions

by Amy McCready

New Years Resolutions. I just hate them. I don’t even make them anymore. I have no plans to go back to the gym after the first of the year because I can’t bear to be the recipient of the stares that come from the “real work out moms.” I am committed to [...]

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