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Parenting Pointers: Parenting with Confidence

Motherhood Moments

Parenting is a difficult and rewarding task that comes with many challenges. In this pioneering book, “How To Do- Parenting With Confidence," Author Vanessa Kahlon offers a refreshingly honest and practical guide to the highs and lows of parenting. Why can it be helpful to have some "parenting one-liners?"

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Parenting Pointers - Kindergarten

Motherhood Moments

Sitting up, crawling, walking, talking, learning, and growing. Each day seems to bring something new.Kindergarten is a major milestone for children and parents. Your child is growing up. As parents, it's so hard to know if they are ready for their big new world ahead. Did you draw on your own experience as a parent?

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Parenting Pointers: Peaceful Parenting

Motherhood Moments

How can parents best meet the complex needs of their children in these complicated times? Giving and receiving the trust, communication, cooperation, respect, and joy that every parent and child deserves, ultimately allows our children to become the leaders our future so desperately needs.A What is Peaceful Parenting?

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Parenting Pointers: Synthetic Identity Theft

Motherhood Moments

and 86 percent of parents don’t look at their kids’ credit report or other reports that would alert them to fraud – a key reason why the problem is growing and can go undetected for years until the damage is already done. How can parents protect their kids? Often, they do not. Leave SSN fields blank. -

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Parenting Pointers - Setting Rules for Toddlers

Motherhood Moments

Original post here: Setting Rules for Toddlers As any parent of a toddler can tell you, enforcing rules is hard. How can a parent be sure they aren’t being too harsh or too lenient? And all the parents said … Guess what? So how can a parent be sure they aren’t being too harsh or too lenient? The situation is harder.

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Parenting Pointers: Divorce and the Effects on Children - How Parents Can Make the Biggest Difference

Motherhood Moments

Parents know children are the most important equation in the separation, but somehow they oftentimes get caught in the middle of the “war.” The answer is with love , honest (age appropriate) communication , and successful co-parenting. Let’s review: Love: As parents we know that children need love in their lives more than anything.

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Parenting Pointers: ASD and Small Steps

Motherhood Moments

Emphasize that learning and growing requires trying new things and that success comes from small steps to a long-term goal. As a parent, you can help children see what the small steps are and how persisting and overcoming obstacles is a part of succeeding. Encourage goal setting and mapping out a plan for achieving the goals.

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