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Social Media Tips

Andrea Ramsay Speers
parenting, teens
Worried that this whole social media thing is slipping through your fingers when it comes to your kids?  This is an amazing list of tips for social media sharing, especially [...]
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To Party or Not to Party?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, parenting, teens
Teenagers have all sorts of great ideas.  These may involve camping unsupervised with a group of friends, going to an unsupervised party at a friend’s house while the [...]
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What To Do With a Stubborn Kid

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens
How many daily power struggles take place in your house?  Do you sometimes feel as though your child is saying “no” just for the sake of being disagreeable?  Well, [...]
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Public Speaking Anxiety

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, parenting, school, self esteem, teens
Many of us have anxiety about public speaking.  But what do you do when it’s your child who’s terrified of doing a presentation? The best thing to do is to have [...]
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“Perfect Angels”

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens
I came across a National Post article I cut from the paper many moons ago,entitled Perfect Angels.  It was written by Alan E. Kazdin, who is a professor of psychology and [...]
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Homework For Parents

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens
The older your child gets, the less involved you may become in their homework.  Or, then again, you may find yourself nagging and supervising more because less seems to be [...]
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“I Quit”

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, parenting, teens
If your teen has been involved in a sport or music lessons or similar activity regularly over the past number of years, you might find that as he gets further into his teen [...]
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Sensitive Kids

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens
I’ve run into a few people in my practice lately who are what author Elaine Aron would describe as highly sensitive.  These are people who share a list of common traits [...]
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Procrastination

Andrea Ramsay Speers
nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens
I read an article recently that was targeted at parents of kids ages 12 to 14, that was about helping kids keep from procrastinating on their homework.  But it was all about [...]
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What’s Eating Our Kids?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
body image, health, parenting, self esteem, teens, weight
Did you know that eating disorders are starting to be diagnosed in girls as young as 11?  Traditionally, they were not thought to be diagnosable until closer to adulthood, but [...]
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