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How to Stop Crying in Children
All children cry, but sometimes it may be hard to understand why or you may just feel there is more to your child being upset than meets the eye. In…
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How to Stop Your Child Being So Self-Critical
In building self-esteem, a child's criticism of his or her own actions is acceptable. Criticism of "self" is not. Watch your child's responses when he or she experiences failure. These…
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How to Talk with Your Children
Every child loves to hear stories in which he or she is the hero or heroine. Telling stories to your child validates your child's existence. It conveys, "I remember this…
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How to Teach Proper Manner to Your Children
Good manners are not only a subject for parents to teach children. They are actions for parents to show children. Do you say "Please" when you make a request of…
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How to Teach Your Child Basic Cooking Skills
What is the one skill that will be useful—even necessary—to your child all of his or her life? Not the ability to throw a touchdown pass. Not the ability to…
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How to Teach Your Child Rejection-Coping Skills
Every child at some point will face another child, a sibling perhaps, or even an adult, who will say, "Go away. I don't want to play with you. I don't…
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How to Teach Your Child to Give
Give your child the opportunity to give. The child with self-esteem gives voluntarily. Encouraging your child to be generous even when it isn't his or her idea helps build self-esteem.…
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How to Teach Your Child to Take Responsibility for Their Actions
Children who are forced to take responsibility for their own actions know, "Mom and Dad consider me capable of acting on my own, and they count me as a valuable…
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How to Tell Your Child about Sex
The child who is told the "facts of life" within the context of a value system is a child who knows, "Mom and Dad trust me with this information; they…
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How to Teach Your Child What to Do When He or She is Lost
Teach your child how to read a map. Children who have some grasp of how to get from where they are to where they want to be are less timid,…
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How to Teach Your Child to Learn to Share
Three-year-old Cody Smith knew what the word sharing meant; it meant that he couldn't sit and hold as many toys as he wanted when his friend, Jim, came over to…
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How to Train Your Child to Get Used to Cleanup Routines
From a no-more-tears shampoo to disposable diapers, products abound to make bathing, diapering, and shampooing as palatable as possible to preschoolers and their parents. It's expected and even predicted (as…
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How to Give Your Child a Teamwork Experience
Encourage your child to be part of a team. In fact, through the course of his or her childhood, your child can benefit from being part of several teams. Your…
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How to Give Your Child Advance Warning
Whenever possible, prepare your child for new situations and new experiences. Boost your child's confidence level by providing "advance warning." Prepare your child for a new house. Talk about the…
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How to Give Your Child an Inheritance
Leave something to your child. A child who receives an inheritance is a child who knows that his or her parents were thinking of the future, were considering his or…
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How to Give Your Child Freedom to Explore the World
Give your child the freedom to explore the world, within the bounds of health and safety. In so doing, you'll be giving your child the confidence that comes from knowing,…
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How to Give Your Child Spontaneous Surprises and Unexpected Acts of Affection
Become a giver of spontaneous hugs, gifts, and words of praise. Let your child know, "Boy, I like you so much I just can't help telling you so!" Such a…
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How to Give Your Children Reasons for the Things You Ask Them to Do
Whenever possible, give your child a reason for the things you ask him or her to do or not to do. This says to your child, "I have thought this…
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How to Help Develop Your Child’s Talent
Every child has the capacity to win at something. Your challenge as a parent is to find that something! Assume that your child may not be good at the things…
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How to Prevent Children Accidents at Home
Children are particularly vulnerable to accidents in the home, most of which can be avoided by careful planning. As a child develops, you will always have to be one step…