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No More Teachers, No More Books…

Andrea Ramsay Speers
happy families, parenting
While high school students may have been out for a while (or not, depending on their exam schedule), this week probably marks the official end of school and beginning of [...]
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3 Things Your Teen Needs To Do This Summer

Andrea Ramsay Speers
happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, self esteem, teens
This article is from the web site About.Com: Parenting of Adolescents.  I thought it had some great ideas, so I’m reprinting them here.  And although it’s talking about [...]
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A Shift in Family Schedules

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting
How do you make your family calendar “work”?  We have a bit of an unusual arrangement in our house in that my husband works evenings and weekends, so we’ve [...]
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“Lucky” Parents

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, gratitude, happy families, parenting
I had an interesting conversation with a business advisor who was learning more about what I do.  He asked if I thought that some parents were just “lucky” in [...]
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Men At Work

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting
A lot of ink has been devoted to the work/life balance for moms, but are dads feeling the crunch too? I think they might be.  While programs such as paternity leave have [...]
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Is It Possible to Consciously Uncouple?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage
I’ll admit I was a bit sad to hear about Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s break-up.  I always feel a little sad when I hear that someone’s marriage is over.  I don’t know [...]
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Marriage Advice

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, gratitude, happy families, marriage, parenting
I do a lot of work with parents, that’s true, but I also see a lot of couples looking for marriage advice.  Sometimes people come to see me specifically because their marriage [...]
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Dealing With Strong Emotions

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, happy families, nagging, parenting, self esteem, teens
Kids say a lot of stuff over the course of a day. Some of it we listen to, some of it we hear and dismiss, some of it we ignore. But what we listen to and how we respond can [...]
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Assertive Communication: 20 Tips

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, nagging, newsletter, parenting
Most of us know that assertiveness will get you further in life than being passive or aggressive. But few of us were actually taught how to be assertive. Here are some helpful [...]
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“Children Don’t Really Misbehave”

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem
This great article was brought to my attention by Alyson Schafer’s email update (Alyson, if you don’t know, is a parenting expert regularly featured on CTV News, the Ask An [...]
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