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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is it like to be a child? Do you have any memory of this? A refresher: Compared to any adult, a child is lacking in almost every way. Physically smaller than an adult, without financial resources, and woefully lacking in understanding about how the world and relationships work. As a result, based on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Eventually, your teen may want to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Most parents become concerned at this point because these relationships are new, and their child may be feeling natural sexual urges and want to explore. Of course, the consequences of teen sex could be an unwanted pregnancy. Frank conversations can help prevent such [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Life is challenging, for kids as well as adults. It takes character strength to deal with these challenges, to do the right things, the hard things. Character strength comes from dozens of behavior patterns that people form throughout life. And these behavior patterns can be developed and strengthened. By consciously working on specific behavior patterns, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Self-Awareness: The First Step to Being the Parent You Want to Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Impatience can ruin a parent-child moment. But how can you strive to be more patient if you aren&#8217;t aware that you need to? Empathy is one of the keys to growing the bond with your child. But how can you exercise empathy more consistently if you don&#8217;t realize that you&#8217;ve missed many opportunities to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Character Is Based on Behavior Patterns</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being a parent means doing hard things on a regular basis. In other words, raising a child to be a happy, successful, independent adult will require you to engage many aspects of character strength. Likewise, to succeed in life as an adult, a child will also have to gain character strength. In a previous article, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember an incident in which my two sons were playing together outside. One got mad at the other and it came to blows. In retrospect, I understand that a contributing factor was their underdeveloped ability to exercise empathy. That was then, over 40 years ago. Today, both are happy in their second marriages and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The great thing about a mistake or any bad experience is that you can learn from it. But it&#8217;s just as easy, if not easier, to not learn a thing. Kids make go through a lot of emotions on the way to growing up. They have so much to learn and the road can be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up to be a happy, successful, independent adult means creating a self. This includes life skills, relationship skills, thinking skills, learning skills, character strength, values, attitudes, and more. it&#8217;s a lot, and every child has to do it. Some leave home ready to deal with life, and others&#8230; My own parents were kind and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Heman Bekele is a 14-year-old boy who won First Prize in 3M&#8217;s Young Scientist&#8217;s Challenge for working to create an affordable soap that could treat skin cancer. Read more about him here&#8230; As a young man, he wasn&#8217;t focused on being popular. He wasn&#8217;t on social media trying to get dozens of &#8220;likes.&#8221; Instead, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My New Definition for the Term &#8220;Lean In&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard somebody use the term &#8220;lean in&#8221;? It quickly became common as a business motto in 2013, taken from the title of the book. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and Nell Scovell, a writer and Sandberg&#8217;s collaborator. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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