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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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How Do We Define “Mental Health”?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, health, mental health, self esteem, stress
How do we know if we are mentally healthy?  What exactly is “mental health”?  These are questions that maybe we should ask ourselves.  It seems hard to expect to achieve a [...]
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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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Happiness At Home: How People Change

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, newsletter, stress
What Is Happiness? If you are thinking about changing your life for the better, one way to start is by identifying your goals. You are probably hoping to find some version of [...]
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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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Happiness At Home: Recovering From An Affair

Andrea Ramsay Speers
couples, marriage, newsletter, stress
Forms of Infidelity Infidelity takes many forms. Some people have sequential affairs—a series of one-night stands or short affairs. These affairs involve very little emotional [...]
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Time To Think

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
In the daily grind of making lunches, arriving on time, homework, and all of the other activities that fill our days, it can be easy to lose sight of our big-picture parenting [...]
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Fears And Phobias

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, happy families, mental health, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Kids develop fears.  It could be separation anxiety as a toddler, a fear of clowns as a preschooler, or a dread of public speaking as a school-ager.   About one in 30 children [...]
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