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Happiness At Home: Managing Today’s Stepfamilies

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, newsletter, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
If you are a member of a stepfamily, you know how difficult it can be to integrate all of the new members and adjust to the new boundaries and rules. The following ideas may [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Be Less of a Perfectionist and Enjoy Life More

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, mental health, newsletter, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress
This is the second of a series of two newsletters that explore the dynamics of perfectionism. In my last newsletter, you learned what perfectionism is and why people develop [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Manage Conflict At Work

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, mental health, newsletter, stress
Kinds of Workplace Conflicts Let’s start by identifying where conflicts happen. Think about the kinds of conflicts that happen around your workplace. Disagreements over turf [...]
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A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers
announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]
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Put That Away!

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
One of most parents’ pet peeves is seeing stuff lying all over the house.  Stepping over shoes in the doorway, or seeing dirty dishes on the counter, or the remains of an arts [...]
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10Feb

Family Meeting How-To’s

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, gratitude, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
Family meetings can be one of your best discipline strategies as a parent. Here’s what your kids learn from participating in family meetings:  Listening skills   Brainstorming [...]
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Lowered Expectations

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, chores, communication, encouragement, happy families, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress
As parents, we set pretty high standards for ourselves.  When we’re expecting our first child, we plan on having a child who listens, who is patient while we’re shopping, who [...]
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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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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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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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