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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Child Thinking and Feeling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day I was sitting in the waiting area of my dental clinic, along with seven other people. One of them was a woman in her mid-30s who was holding a small dog in her lap. I was amazed at how quiet and well-behaved the dog was. But a dog in a dental clinic? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your Child Needs Your Wisdom&#8211;Share It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I’m with someone, a friend or family member, or even a stranger, I try to imagine what their experience of being alive in the world is like, based on their situation, experience, values, knowledge, skills, etc. I even do this with our cats. It’s my way of exercising empathy. Doing this exercise with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Good Thing about Regret</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My wife and I were going to visit a friend. Our route took us to a stop sign at a T-junction at an Interstate access road. We could turn left or right to get to our destination. My wife said, &#8220;Turn left.&#8221; I replied that the shorter and quicker route would be to turn right. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teens Need to Get Good at Future-Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I was coaching a twelve-year-old girl, I concluded with this summary: &#8220;In the future, some of your friends will want you to conform, so you&#8217;ll need to stand up for yourself and be the kind of person you want to be.&#8221; Her reply: &#8220;What do you mean by &#8216;in the future&#8217;?&#8221; Her question took [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Before You Hand Over Those Keys&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Adolescence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting a driver license is a rite of passage. Because of the way a vehicle empowers independence and how the license amounts to a badge of maturity, many teens look forward to this certification. And you want them &#8211; maybe you need them &#8211; to be able to drive themselves to their many activities. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Adolescence &#8211; A Time for Skill-Building for the Big League Game of Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quote worth reading and thinking about, from Frank Martin, head coach of the South Carolina men&#8217;s basketball team: &#8220;You know what makes me sick to my stomach? When I hear grown people say that kids have changed. Kids haven&#8217;t changed. Kids don&#8217;t know anything about anything. We&#8217;ve changed as adults. We demand less [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Help Your Child Become a Better Thinker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend we&#8217;re headed to Corpus Christie to celebrate our niece&#8217;s wedding. Since our go-to cat sitter isn&#8217;t available, we found a 15-year-old young man who wanted the job. He came to our home to be briefed, and I had a chance to talk with him. Me &#8211; &#8220;School starts again in a couple weeks. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Our Daughters Need to Know about Beauty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Young girls want to be pretty. They believe it will help make them popular and well-liked, and therefore be included in the fun and excitement with friends. And they&#8217;re probably right. Because every aspect of popular media promotes a classic form of female beauty. For example, when was the last time you saw a female [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Toxic Questions &#8211; How Parents Hit Back Verbally When Frustrated, Tired and Overwhelmed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Both my sons are 50 years old (plus or minus), have successful careers in IT, and in many ways are smarter than I am. They certainly do make more money than I do. But honestly, I can&#8217;t take credit for how they turned out. Yes, I was mostly a kind father, I probably set a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reactivity &#8211; A Parent&#8217;s No. 1 Mistake&#8230;and the Cure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know several parents whose child is fast approaching adolescence. Even raising a sweet child can be difficult in many ways, but after puberty the challenges change. Middle school-aged children don&#8217;t want to be treated like sweet little kids anymore. Far from being adults, they seek adult-like privileges. They want more independence, more time away [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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