How to Foster a Child’s Self-Confidence
With young children, the experience of a parent’s can-do mentality can be invaluable, even if that parent can’t actually do something well.…
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Emotionally Prepared Parents Give Space to Kids When Needed
I hope that allowing my boys the room to know the limits and reasons of their own emotional state will serve them…
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Toilet Training Woes and How To Overcome Them. Maybe.
While 88 percent are toilet trained by a year later that leaves a fairly big chunk of kids still working things out…
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Can Parents Have a Favorite Child?
How could we possibly have a favorite child? Each person serves their own, independent purpose that can’t be compared with anyone else.
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4 Similarities Between Raising Kids and Gambling
Thinking back to my days as a single man in Las Vegas -- the drinking, the gambling, the late nights -- I…
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Should You Ever Apologize to Your Child?
There’s a time to be steadfast and strong, but it is not when you are wrong or when you’ve messed something up…
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Birthday Party Blues Hit All Parents Hard at Some Point
We've been to six of these birthday party things and feel this overwhelming pressure to be at least different, even if not…
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Lessons from Grandpa and His Wondrous Basement
I try to apply what I have learned from Grandpa as I am raising my own kids, hoping that the patience, skills…
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5 Great Tips for New Fathers that Really Help
I still consider myself a “rookie” as far as being a dad goes but here is my top 5 tips for new…
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Childhood – It’s Just a Phase. So Calm Down, Parents
Children are people. Sometimes people are assholes, other times they’re not. When they're 2-years-old, though ...
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