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		<title>Before You Hand Over the Car Keys&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[60 years ago, I drove the family car through the heart of Stuttgart, Germany. No one else was in the car. I was a responsible kid, and I was doing my best to stay safe and arrive home without a mishap. But like every young driver, I had a lot to learn. I was ignorant [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The One Thing That Beats Peer Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Teens need to be liked and included by friends. And in all sorts of ways, friends can pressure your child to conform and get involved in what they&#8217;re doing. Not all peer pressure is bad. If your child&#8217;s friends have good values, they can influence your child to do well in school and avoid the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Most Powerful Way to Influence Your Child Is the Simplest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All my writing these days is about how you talk to your child. But parents communicate in other, very powerful ways. When my two sons were small boys, I had never heard the term &#8220;parenting.&#8221; I knew nothing about techniques or skills that would make me a better parent. I&#8217;m not sure that the way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Your Child Ready for College &#8211; Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One parent I know pushed her child hard to punch all his tickets in high school. He was a smart kid, but lazy. She felt she had to manage him to meet his requirements. His real love was playing video games, so he decided he wanted to be a game programmer. At college, however, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teens Need Lots of Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems like yesterday when I published Conversations with the Wise Uncle: The Secret to Being Strong as a Teenager and Preparing for Success as an Adult (First Summit, 2012). Eight years ago! It&#8217;s a series of stories about a young boy named Chris and his uncle Ray, who mentors him during his growing up years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Watch Out for the Crazies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years now, instead of saying &#8220;Drive safely!&#8221; when people I care about are getting into their cars, I tell them, &#8220;Watch out for the crazies!&#8221; I know, it sounds a little weird. But not really. What I&#8217;m referring to are the &#8220;other guys&#8221; on the highway who could be experiencing serious personal issues while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pot &#8211; It May Be Legal But It Can Damage Your Kid&#8217;s Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t want your teen to smoke cigarettes. You don&#8217;t want your teen smoke marijuana. There&#8217;s the danger that normal development of the prefrontal cortex will be disrupted, with permanent consequences. Damage to lungs. Addiction. Gateway to other drugs. Why do they do it? Many teens think smoking is a way to relax and appear [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Growing Up Smart &#8211; You Can Take Luck out of the Equation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I had a conversation with a local physician. Happily, we didn’t talk about my health. Instead, he spoke enthusiastically about his three children, two boys and a girl, all of whom have left home. He told me something unbelievable about them: all three achieved a maximum score on their SAT and earned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Adolescent Gauntlet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently had breakfast with some friends who have a graduating high school senior. He&#8217;s a great kid who wants to be a speech therapist and has been accepted into the right university for that training. Also, I pointed out that in addition to this wonderful outcome, their son had already achieved something huge: he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teens Can Choose to Make Their Brains Smarter &#8211; The Stakes Are High</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the underlying themes of my writing is that parents of teens need to be realistic. But being realistic doesn&#8217;t necessarily imply some kind of worst-case scenario. Because realistically, lots of really wonderful things can happen during adolescence. For example, a teen can: Take studies seriously and become a knowledgeable, well-informed individual Become an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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