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Resource Guide

Smart Parenting: Raising Happy and Responsible Children in the 21st Century

Go For Your Goals: Goal Setting for Kids

Being A Happy Effective Parent (CD)

Café Mom - FREE Online Community for Moms

Better Behavior Wheel Parenting Tool

Talking to Toddlers

Discipline Your Kid The Right Way Without Shouting or Spanking

Child Anger Management for Parents

Total Transformation - Parenting Strategies for Oppositional & Defiant Kids & Teens

Instant Baby Sleep

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World is a parenting book written by Marybeth Hicks. She is an author and weekly columnist on family issues at the Washington Post. She is also a popular speaker on raising children in today’s world.

In her book she provides parents with information on [...]

Don’t Focus On Your Child’s Happiness!

Many parents strive to have happy kids.  In their efforts, they are loath to see their children upset and seem to do anything to allay the child’s consternation.  So, what child wants, child gets. Child doesn’t want, child doesn’t have to do.

There is a belief by these parents that their children will be naturally appreciative [...]

“Coach Yelled at Me!”

Summer is almost here, and with it come the ill-fitting baseball uniforms, iodine swabbed skinned soccer knees, and a load of sports uniform laundry that will keep the washer going continuously until September.  Legions of children sign up for summer sports across the country and enjoy the benefits of exercise, fresh air, and personal goal-setting and [...]

Young Bullies seek power, status, and affection.

A new study from the Netherlands published in the March/April 2010 issue of the journal Child Development looks at underlying reasons that children bully their  peers. They studied about 500 elementary school children aged 9 to 12 and found that the reason that they bully their peers is to gain power and status by dominating their [...]