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Is It Wrong To Ask For Help?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
bullying, communication, couples, depression, happy families, health, keeping kids out of trouble, marriage, mental health, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
We live in a culture that values independence.  There’s a common belief that everyone can and should take care of themselves alone, pull themselves up by their bootstraps and [...]
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Skin Deep

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, keeping kids out of trouble, mental health, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens, weight
We’d all like to think that appearances don’t matter as much as what’s on the inside does. But if you haven’t heard, even researchers have to sadly admit that better looking [...]
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Fear of Being Away From Home

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Most of us are familiar with separation anxiety as it relates to infants and toddlers, but what do you do if your middle-school kid or teenager still has a fear of being away [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Manage Sibling Rivalry

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
It is human nature to feel competitive and envious toward others. A moderate spirit of competition is a positive and productive attribute in school and in business. Sibling [...]
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A String on the Finger

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, entitlement, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens, tweens
One of the things that never fails to set parents off is when kids are chronically forgetful.  And it can be a long haul to get kids to accept the responsibility of [...]
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“So, How Was School?”

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens, tweens
Does that question make your kids clam up?  Instead of asking a blanket question like this, try asking about a specific class, for example, or what they did during recess.  [...]
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When Big Kids Cry Easily

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, mental health, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, tweens
Some kids are just very sensitive.  They cry easily and often, even over situations that others might not feel are such a big deal, and even as they pass the age where we [...]
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Off To Camp

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
Summer is half over, but there’s still lots left to do – maybe your child has sleep-away camp on the agenda during the last four weeks of summer. Camp can be an exciting, but [...]
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