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Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy?

When children reach their teen years, it becomes their parents’ responsibility to know when to let go and when to pull in the reins. Adolescence is typically a time for exploration, for testing bou…

Everything They Know

When children are young, it seems as if everything they know they learn from their parents. Of course, they learn from others along the way.

Should Chores Be Gender-Specific?

When a co-worker of mine was asked by her parents what she wanted for a birthday present, she surprised me by requesting a set of power tools.

Parenting Blues: Tackling Teenage Truants

Children, at times, give their parents a tough time. No matter whether you are a successful professional or an efficient homemaker, when it comes to kids all your managerial skills might fall flat.

Sleepovers

Watching children grow can be a wonderful experience for the parents. And guiding them in their delicate years can be very difficult and exciting also. It is in the early teens when children are…

Parents offered Relate guidance over exam stress

Parents are being offered advice by counselling service, Relate, on how to cope with family stress caused by their children’s exams.

The Giving: This adoption video on DVD is the perfect gift for birthparents and adoptive parents

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Parenting teenagers: Bring calm to sibling conflict

Brothers and sisters will always clash – whatever their age.

Honey, I’m ignoring the kids

A new book claims that the key to a happy family is to devote less time to children and more to the marriage.