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Weight Worries

Andrea Ramsay Speers
body image, communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, weight
What do you do if you’re worried about your teen’s weight? Begin by recognizing that however unhappy you are about the weight, your teen is guaranteed to be even [...]
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The “More, More, More” Epidemic

Andrea Ramsay Speers
allowance, communication, parenting, Pet Peeves
We live in an era of rampant consumerism. Raise your hand if you’ve ever caught yourself trying to keep up with the Jones’…or at the very least snuck an undercover look at [...]
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Taking Their Behaviour Personally

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally responsible for something your child has done.  We have some laws in Ontario that make a parent legally responsible for [...]
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Hate The Sin, Not The Sinner

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens
As parents we are so often gobsmacked by our teen’s behaviour.  We expect toddlers to write on walls and to throw their spaghetti across the kitchen, and we try our [...]
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Why Won’t They Just Listen?! How To Communicate With Your Kids (or Anyone, For That Matter)

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves
Parents everywhere complain that their kids just don’t listen to them. But the question worth considering is, how well do we listen to our kids? As in all aspects of [...]
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First Dates

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, dating, friendship, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens
I remember my first date with one of my first teenage boyfriends.  I remember where we went, what movie we saw, what he wore.  I also remember the names of all three of the [...]
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Sticks and Stones

Andrea Ramsay Speers
bullying, communication, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem
There has been a lot in the papers lately about bullying and cyber-bulling, in light of Rehteah Parsons’ death.  Obviously, this is a complicated issue with no simple answers, [...]
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Girls? Boys? Both?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, gender, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens
Do you think it’s easier to raise one gender over the other?  As the mother of three young daughters, I’ve heard (more than once, in fact) that it’s easier [...]
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Your Kids, Their Friends

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, friendship, nagging, parenting, teens
I imagine all of you love your kids’ friends.  They probably come over and politely stop for conversation with you before heading up to your teen’s room, and they [...]
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Moms Says, Dad Says

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, parenting, Pet Peeves
Parents often disagree. But what do you do when the disagreement is over a parenting or discipline approach? I read an interesting statistic in a parenting magazine article. [...]
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