Happiness At Home: Develop Your Personal Negotiation Skills
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Negotiating skills can help you manage lots of different kinds of life situations, both at work and in your personal relationships. Here are a few examples of where these [...]
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“Parental Love With Strings Attached”
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I just reread a classic article about the danger in tying parental love and approval with good behaviour. It was written by Alfie Kohn, a well-known critic of and thinker [...]
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“No” Is A Complete Sentence
Andrea Ramsay Speers
As parents (and moms in particular), we often have a hard time saying no. Whether it’s to a sleep over we’re not sure we’re comfortable with or whipping up eight unicorn [...]
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Protecting Our Kids From Internet Porn
Andrea Ramsay Speers
We’d all like to keep our kids away from graphic and disturbing internet pornography. Filtering tools give us a feeling of safety, but unfortunately researchers have [...]
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Happiness At Home: Caring For The Caregiver
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Few people are prepared for the responsibilities and tasks involved in caring for loved ones who are ill, elderly, or disabled. The success of the relationship between you and [...]
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Happiness At Home: Managing Today’s Stepfamilies
Andrea Ramsay Speers
If you are a member of a stepfamily, you know how difficult it can be to integrate all of the new members and adjust to the new boundaries and rules. The following ideas may [...]
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Happiness At Home: 12 Rules For Constructive Communication
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Poor communication patterns erode self-esteem and harm relationships but sadly, plenty of people fall into the trap of indulging in them. If you and your relationship partners [...]
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Happiness At Home: Suicide Warning Signs and Treatment
Andrea Ramsay Speers
It is reported that suicide, the act of deliberately ending one’s own life, is a cause of death for about 4,500 people each year in Canada. Since many suicides are not [...]
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You Can Have Excellent Listening Skills!
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Any psychotherapist will tell you that one of the biggest problems they see among their clients is poor listening skills. People get into trouble in their relationships [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Manage Conflict At Work
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Kinds of Workplace Conflicts Let’s start by identifying where conflicts happen. Think about the kinds of conflicts that happen around your workplace. Disagreements over turf [...]
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