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Helping Your Child Cope With Divorce

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, depression, mental health, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
Divorce is not easy on anyone.  When children are involved, the situation can be particularly challenging, but it doesn’t have to be traumatic.   Your child’s age will [...]
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Hands-On Parenting: Too Much Of A Good Thing

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, entitlement, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
I first became aware of the term “helicopter parent” many years ago. It was in an article by Amanda Robb in the July 2008 issue of O Magazine. The term was coined by former [...]
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Happiness At Home: How People Change

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, newsletter, stress
What Is Happiness? If you are thinking about changing your life for the better, one way to start is by identifying your goals. You are probably hoping to find some version of [...]
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Happiness At Home: Recovering From An Affair

Andrea Ramsay Speers
couples, marriage, newsletter, stress
Forms of Infidelity Infidelity takes many forms. Some people have sequential affairs—a series of one-night stands or short affairs. These affairs involve very little emotional [...]
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Fears And Phobias

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, happy families, mental health, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Kids develop fears.  It could be separation anxiety as a toddler, a fear of clowns as a preschooler, or a dread of public speaking as a school-ager.   About one in 30 children [...]
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Whose Work Is Homework?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
If it was meant to be fun, it wouldn’t be called homework, right?  But does getting assignments and essays done have to be such a battle?  In fact, that’s the last thing it [...]
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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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The Process Of Change

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, parenting, self esteem, stress, Uncategorised
January is often a time of change.  We start off the new year with the best of intentions; some of them stick, some of them don’t.  While our enthusiasm and motivation ride [...]
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Happiness At Home: What Causes All Of This Stress?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, mental health, newsletter, stress
In this newsletter, we will explore what stress is and what causes it. In the next, you will learn how to manage the stress in your life and protect yourself against it. [...]
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When Parents Disagree About Parenting

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
Who knew that parenting could be so hard on your marriage?? When we meet someone and children aren’t even on our radars, we don’t really know that our parenting styles might [...]
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