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Is My Child a Kleptomaniac?

By Elvira G. Aletta — 2009

Dr. Klass consulted child development experts. Here is a summary of what she learned: Most children will take something that’s not theirs at some time.

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How to Create Space and Improve Your Parenting: An Interview with Dr. Shefali

Dr. Tsabary discusses the many aspects of conscious parenting; emotional reactivity, healing our inner child, discipline, and partnership.

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A New Way of Parenting That May Change Your Family

Conscious parenting turns our parenting paradigm right-side up.

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Ways to Build Character in Children

The qualities of character develop through an interplay of family, school, and community influences and the child’s individual temperament, experiences, and choices. Parents have many opportunities and tools to build their children’s character.

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How Children Develop Toxic Shame

The mild feeling of shame — the prefrontal cortex clutch shifting — is how kids learn to shift themselves from "forbidden" behavior to acceptable behavior.

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A Guide to Self-Care for Parents: Why Making Time for Yourself Matters

Between taking children to school and managing other to-dos, some days it may feel like you don’t get a minute to yourself. And even when you hear about, self-care, you may dismiss it as frivolous, unnecessary, or even selfish.

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Meditation and Children, Part 5: Creative Visualization

Creative visualization goes by a number of names: creative imagination, visualization, visual imaging. Whatever the name, the process involves calling up images, sounds and/or feelings that calm the mind and body, and focus the attention on a specific task.

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Talking with My Children About Sex Without Shame

I wanted to give them better than what I had. It wasn't easy.

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Mindfulness and Teens—Will They Ever Work Together?

The teen's job is to clean up his parent's mistakes and blame them for being selfish, greedy bastards who just think about themselves and are to blame for the world being a mess, the ice cap melting and the fact that there are no jobs or money because we've spent it all.

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Three Ways Parents Enable Their Child's Misbehavior

These popular parenting approaches might be working against you.

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Managing Problem Behavior at Home

A guide to more confident, consistent and effective parenting.

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Child’s Challenging Behavior