Chores or Responsibility

Many children will get an allowance or money for doing their chores or work around the house. But this doesn't necessarily instill a sense of responsibility in the child. If the money goes away, so do the tasks they normally perform.This is meant to teach them responsibility, but it only ever see

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The Magic Of Grandparents

Grandparents are wonderful creatures. While they don't always parent the same way as we do, and while they don't always agree with us, they are a wealth of knowledge, stories, and experience. My children are lucky enough to have a myriad of grandparents and great grandparents around them, and

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Children And A New Partner

Many people today are divorced and have children. It is an unfortunate circumstance but life always moves on. So when you meet someone else and start to get serious how do you introduce them and even have them living with you and your children. My parents divorced at an early age and my parents

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The Hardest Thing About Parenting

Parenting comes with many challenges everyday. From baby to teenager it always seems like a never ending test of patience. But each individual challenge you face is not the hardest part. The baby years or the teenage years aren't the hardest part. The most challenging thing you will face being a

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Celebrating Manhood

The commencement of puberty signifies the beginning of your son's passage into manhood. Traditional cultures often have elaborate rites of passage that they perform for the boy becoming a man - involving fasting, scarification, isolation, and hunting practises. In our Western culture we've larg

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