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Helping Your Child Cope With Divorce

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, depression, mental health, parenting, stress, teens, tweens

Divorce is not easy on anyone. When children are involved, the situation can be particularly challenging, but it doesn’t have to be traumatic. Your child’s age will [...]

Hands-On Parenting: Too Much Of A Good Thing

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, entitlement, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

I first became aware of the term “helicopter parent” many years ago. It was in an article by Amanda Robb in the July 2008 issue of O Magazine. The term was coined by former [...]

Listening To Our Kids

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens

How well do you listen to your kids? Many parents would pat themselves on the back when it comes to keeping communication flowing between themselves and their children. But [...]

Say What You Mean And Mean What You Say

Andrea Ramsay Speers

chores, communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens

Following through as a parent is hard. Who among us has not threatened to cancel Christmas or a vacation, knowing full well that we’d never do it? Who hasn’t said to [...]

Time To Think

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens

In the daily grind of making lunches, arriving on time, homework, and all of the other activities that fill our days, it can be easy to lose sight of our big-picture parenting [...]

Whose Work Is Homework?

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

If it was meant to be fun, it wouldn’t be called homework, right? But does getting assignments and essays done have to be such a battle? In fact, that’s the last thing it [...]

Happiness At Home: Managing The Stress In Your Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, friendship, mental health, newsletter, stress

In the last newsletter, we discussed what stress is and what causes it. In this issue, you will learn how to manage the stress in your life and protect yourself against it. [...]

Bribes Versus Rewards

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, gratitude, happy families, nagging, parenting, school, self esteem, teens, tweens, Uncategorised

Here’s an interesting question: what’s the difference between a reward and a bribe? Many would say that the distinction comes down to the use of the word [...]

The Importance Of Attachment

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, happy families, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens

“Attachment” is something that parents, particularly of babies, think about. How do we help our kids develop healthy attachment, and how do we know if we’re doing it right? [...]

Encouraging Respect In Our Kids

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens, tweens

“Respect” is an important word for parents. We want our kids to respect us as parents, respect all we do for them, and respect other people. We want them to [...]