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HomeBlogArchive by Category "teens" (Page 5)

Independence Day

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, chores, communication, gratitude, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens, tweens, Uncategorised
When is the right age for our children to become “independent”?  There’s no clear answer for this, but we hope that it is sometime before the age of 30 (fingers crossed).  [...]
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Sometimes Kids Just Need To Hear No

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, entitlement, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens, tweens
Nobody likes to disappoint their children.  It’s hard to turn them down, crush their hopes, or deny them.  And it’s particularly hard to deal with their unpleasant reactions [...]
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Doing What Works (And Quitting What Doesn’t)

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, stress, teens, tweens
People have a tendency to think that if something should work, but it doesn’t, that the next step is to then do that thing harder, more often or more intensely.  (For example, [...]
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Goals of Misbehaviour Part 4: Inadequacy

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens, tweens
  This month wraps up our four month series of trying to answer that nagging question, “Why do kids do that?”  Having looked at the “goals” of gaining attention, power, [...]
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Encourage To Flourish

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens
  Encouragement Vs Praise What’s the difference? you may be asking yourself.  It’s subtle, to be sure, and most of us never really gave it much thought.  In a nutshell, [...]
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Goals Of Misbehaviour Part 3: Revenge

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
  The good news is that we are well on our way to understanding what is driving our kids’ behaviour.  We’ve talked about the first two goals of misbehaviour, getting [...]
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Happiness At Home: Parenting Your Teen With Less Stress

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, depression, keeping kids out of trouble, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens
How to Maintain Communication Even though teens need to separate from their parents during adolescence, they also need to know that the safety net of home and family is always [...]
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A Yelling Resolution

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
I was reading a little poll in an old Today’s Parent magazine.  Even though it was from the December 2009 issue, I thought it would be interesting to post the poll and the [...]
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05Feb

Goals Of Misbehaviour Part 2: Power

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Last month we began our quest to answer the question, “What are they thinking?!?” (“they”, of course, being our children). Recognizing that no behaviour happens by accident [...]
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Goals Of Misbehaviour Part I: Attention

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
Have you ever looked at your kids and thought, “What are they thinking?!?” It’s a common parental response to outrageous, wacky, disruptive, or hurtful behaviours. But there [...]
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