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Happiness At Home: Emotional Survival Guide For Teens

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, depression, health, mental health, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
This month’s newsletter is written for teens. If you are a teen, this is for you. If you know a teenager, please pass it along. This month, we will explore the hardest things [...]
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18Nov

Out-Of-The-Box Encouragement

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, encouragement, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
We’ve talked before about how important encouragement is for kids. It contributes to healthy self esteem, it fosters courage and a willingness to make a mistake but try again, [...]
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7 Habits Of Highly Effective Communicators

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
Many of us take our communication style for granted.  We just say what we’re thinking. We might assume that what we’re thinking is “common sense.” Maybe we don’t give much [...]
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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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Listening To Our Kids

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
How well do you listen to your kids?  Many parents would pat themselves on the back when it comes to keeping communication flowing between themselves and their children. But [...]
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Making The Most Of Summer Birthdays (Even If It’s An Un-Birthday)

Andrea Ramsay Speers
happy families, holidays, parenting, teens, tweens
As a winter baby, I never had to experience the disappointment of inviting friends to a party but having them all at the cottage on the appointed day.  Or of not knowing how [...]
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Say What You Mean And Mean What You Say

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
Following through as a parent is hard.  Who among us has not threatened to cancel Christmas or a vacation, knowing full well that we’d never do it?  Who hasn’t said to [...]
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Books And Teens

Andrea Ramsay Speers
parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
I remember reading a series of books when I was a preteen and young teen, whose series name I can’t remember. The protagonists (mostly teen girls) were plagued by such [...]
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Whose Work Is Housework?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, entitlement, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, teens, tweens
Not many of us relish doing housework.  Most of us hardly get a kick out of cleaning the mini-blinds and baseboards.   Kids?  They tend to enjoy it even less.  But if we all [...]
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    Happiness At Home: Emotional Survival Guide For Teens
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Oakville Family Institute (Trafalgar and Dundas in north Oakville)
Office Phone : 905-491-6949
Recent Posts
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    Happiness At Home: Emotional Survival Guide For Teens
    anxiety, communication, depression, health, mental health, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
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