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Happiness At Home: Develop Your Personal Negotiation Skills

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, friendship, happy families, marriage, newsletter, parenting
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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A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers
announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]
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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. [...]
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Express Yourself

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, friendship, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
I spend a lot of time with my psychotherapy clients focusing on communication.  I’m not sure that I’ve ever had a couple come for couples therapy that has NOT brought up “poor [...]
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Happiness At Home Newsletter: You Can Build Your People Skills

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, friendship, happy families, marriage, newsletter, parenting, teens, tweens
How would you like to get along even better with others in your personal relationships and in the workplace? Getting along well with people sounds kind of general and is [...]
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Surviving Sleep-Overs

Andrea Ramsay Speers
friendship, parenting, Pet Peeves, tweens
Sleep-overs are an important rite of passage for teens and pre-teens.  But any parent who’s ever hosted one will tell you that the potential for disaster (spills and [...]
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Conversation Basics

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, friendship, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, tweens
I think every parent wants to raise a polite child.  Sometimes how that is defined varies from family to family, but overall, there are some things that we have as a culture [...]
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Meeting New Friends

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem, teens
Switching schools or classes in the middle of the school year can be hard for younger kids, especially when they don’t know anyone in the new place yet. Work with the [...]
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Lonely or a Loner?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, friendship, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, school, self esteem, stress, teens
If you are a social butterfly, but you’ve got a kid who’d rather play alone than attend a party, it can lead a parent to wonder if there’s a problem.  The [...]
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BFF – Or Not Anymore

Andrea Ramsay Speers
bullying, communication, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem, teens
Friendships matter to kids.  They matter to adults, too, but sometimes we can forget that the perspective we have isn’t shared by our children.  It can be heartbreaking and [...]
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Oakville Family Institute (Trafalgar and Dundas in north Oakville)
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