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Safe Dating for Divorced Parents: Six Strategies to Protect Kids
Dating after a divorce can be a complex and sensitive time, especially when you have children. It’s important to ensure that your new relationships do not negatively impact your kids. Here are some strategies to keep your children safe and emotionally secure while you navigate the dating scene. 1. Set healthy boundaries Establish clear expectations…
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5 Essential Dating Tips for Divorced Parents: Balancing Love and Family Dynamics
Navigating the dating scene as a divorced parent comes with unique challenges and considerations. It’s essential to balance your needs with those of your children. Here are five tips to help you: 1. Understand Your Kids’ Emotional Capacity Why it’s important: Children are not equipped to handle adult relationship dynamics, especially when they are still…
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Managing Co-Parenting Post-Divorce: Key Approaches for Enhancing Child Welfare
While divorce certainly causes a disruption in the lives of parents, it’s very important to remember that children can suffer during this transition as well. And when it comes to co-parenting, it’s important to keep the best interests of your child first and foremost in your game-plan. The decisions you make should help create a…
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Why Fathers Matter: Key Findings on Parenting and Family Dynamics
Despite current societal behaviors, studies over time have shown how invaluable a father’s presence is to the growth and development of both boys and girls. From brain development, to relationship skills, from educational levels to lifetime health benefits . . . having fathers around in the lives of their children makes a huge difference in…
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Understanding Rebellion and Resistance: Recognizing Fear and Anxiety as Root Causes in Your Child’s Behavior
When children respond with resistance, violence, or anger parents may see this as a child with rebellious tendencies, or one who is disobedient. When in reality, often these responses of resistance are based in biological responses due to anxiety, fear, or worry. Especially with kids who have a tendency towards anxiety, we will see many…
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Effective Parenting of Adult Children: 5 Tips for Nurturing Independence and Connection
Navigating the transition from parenting a child to relating to an adult child can be challenging. As children mature into adulthood, the parent-child dynamic inevitably shifts. Letting go of the traditional parenting role and establishing a new type of relationship built on mutual respect and independence is crucial. Here are five effective tips to help…
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Seeing Beyond the Trees: How Perspective Shapes Healing and Understanding
Being able to look at life from a different point of view, seeing things from different vantage points and understanding your history differently are important aspects of healing and moving forward in a healthier manner. Have you ever heard the phrase, “you can’t see the forest for the trees”? This basically means that from your…
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Help Your Child Recharge With These Relaxing Routines
In the whirlwind of modern life, it’s essential to equip children with practices that rejuvenate their minds and bodies. Things like getting enough quality sleep, trying out relaxing hobbies, and eating healthy foods can make a big difference in reducing their stress levels. This article, courtesy of Becoming Exceptional, delves into effective approaches to promote…
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Successful Co-Parenting: Prioritizing Child Well-being in Blended Families
In today’s society, there is a lot of divorce and remarriage, and blended families. As such, many children will be in situations where biological parents have parted ways, often under difficult circumstances. And yet, these are still parents of mutual children who need and want to be parented. Below are a few tips to make…
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Harnessing the Power of Choice: Effective Parenting for the New Generation
Today’s kids are different than previous generations and thus, need to be parented differently. Kids nowadays don’t respond well to: “because I said so” or “because I’m the parent” the way previous generations complied. THEY RESIST! Children seem to come now with a strong need to feel in control of their own choices. And if…
