Why Won’t They Just Listen?! How To Communicate With Your Kids (or Anyone, For That Matter)
Andrea Ramsay Speers
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
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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Girls? Boys? Both?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
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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Moms Says, Dad Says
Andrea Ramsay Speers
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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Nagging: The Ultimate Teen Complaint
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I just read an interesting article about things that teens hate about their parents. One of the annoyances that kept popping up was the nagging that moms and dads pester their [...]
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