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Parenting Articles

  • Re-Parenting

    What is re-parenting? Re-parenting is: • Being a parent to yourself. • Giving yourself the nurturing, affection and recognition you need to heal your inner child. • Giving you...

  • Re-Parenting

    Content What is re-parenting? Reasons why you need to re-parent yourself Signs in adulthood that you need to re-parent yourself Steps to implement a re-parenting program in your life What is...

  • Smart Shopping for Parenting Books

    Overview parenting can be a daunting and often overwhelming task. Providing physical, intellectual and emotional development to our children is every parent's duty. But finding the stamina, inspi...

  • Facts on Attachment Parenting

    Parents who practice the standards of attachment parenting believe in breastfeeding and child-led weaning. Children nurse on demand infants, which ensures the bond between mother and child. There i...

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Conversations On Parenting

  • Do you think it is a parents fault that...


    • Posted On October 18, 2008 02:51:26 PM

      ...en they are not kid any more. -if their parents tell them something, they say shut up. - they always act as if their parents and their older sibling are their slaves. -have no respect for their ... Read More

    • Posted On October 18, 2008 04:44:05 PM

      Yes, the parents are to blame. When I was little I would never even think about doing some of the things I see kids doing in stores. I never saw other children throwing tantrums in stores either. S... Read More

  • Parenting advice

    Don't make a child laugh while you feed them baby food. Trust me.

    • Posted On September 21, 2008 10:41:34 AM

      LMAO good one =D Read More

    • Posted On September 21, 2008 11:14:45 AM

      LOL! You should have a new avatar with your baby-food-splattered face! Did your little guy think it was funny? Read More

  • Proper Parenting


    • Posted On March 26, 2008 08:12:03 AM

      ...roper to spank children, so I during my parenting years, I tried another method to control my kids when they had one of 'those moments.' I found it effective to just take the child for a car ... Read More

    • Posted On March 26, 2008 08:13:05 AM

      haha that's awesome Read More

  • CHANGE: Begins with Parenting

    ...you ready to take up the sacred role of parenting with a passion and parent like no one else so your children can grow up to be like no one else?   “Greatness is never a given. It m...

    • Posted On February 3, 2009 11:33:45 AM

      Administrators? This is an advertisment and as such not an appropriate post for this forum. Read More

    • Posted On February 5, 2009 10:26:17 AM

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  • Parenting/being a teen/being a Christian

    ...d....Thank you for your reminder.  Parents want so much for their children.  Often we come off looking like we're dissapointed at you, but we just want your world to be perfect, with n...

    • Posted On April 9, 2009 02:55:49 PM

      ...ith my own personal feelings of being a parent and as a teenager. When I was fifteen, I met my first husband fell in love and then married him. We had three children, all girls, but if I were t... Read More

    • Posted On April 9, 2009 02:55:49 PM

      ...ith my own personal feelings of being a parent and as a teenager. When I was fifteen, I met my first husband fell in love and then married him. We had three children, all girls, but if I were t... Read More

  • Steroid Parenting

    ...eople? A-Fraud is making it hard on all parents. He disgusts me. This is terrible.”     The talk show caller is so focused on A-Rod, his behavior, and his responsibility as a ...

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Parenting Blogs

Parenting and Kids

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SPA for single parents

Well not quite what you were thinking; SPA aka Single Parent Australia is a fantastic new support service for single parents around Australia. SPA caters for male, female, young or old. Join now and share tips, problems and life with other single parents...

New Updates on the Equal Parenting Bike Trek

New Updates on the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek!! Visit Cycling4Children.com - Home of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek

Let me just say

As part of my job at my elementary school, I sometimes have to work with parents to make sure students are getting the services they need. Sometimes the parent has concerns about the teacher or program. Sometimes the parents are the concern. Usually I...

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Parenting My Parents

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Parenting my parents- this is a group for those who have switched roles with parents..discussing the challenges of providing care and supervision to aging family members.

Single parents

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This is a group for single parents who are trying to live a healthy lifestyle and to have their kids do so too. Open to venting and seeking advice about healthy lifestyle issues as well as the stru...

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ParentingQnA: Parenting Q&A: How do babies get more breast milk as they grow? http://bit.ly/8H54cL

nicolabird: @CoachBarb that's the great thing about parenting courses, they stay with you for the rest of ur life :)

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SoulfulParent: Check out Soulful Thoughts: it aims to provide a free, supportive, caring companion on your parenting journey! http://ow.ly/EmzR

CoachBarb: A woman approached me at the theatre last night who had taken a parenting course from me many yrs. ago. Told me how much she'd learned.

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