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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>Dr. Alan Nelson Teaches Kids to Be Leaders</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though I graduated from West Point, served 20 years in the U.S. Army, and retired as a lieutenant colonel, from age 16 I&#8217;ve always considered myself to be a writer. And since I co-founded what has become Grow Strong Leaders in 1987, I&#8217;ve published over a dozen books and several hundred articles. Ten years [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Constructive Feedback: A Power Skill</title>
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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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		<title>Kids Desperately Need Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, a bizarre death was reported in most news outlets. A 14-year old boy fell in love with an AI image. This computer-generated image became so real to him that he saw her as a real person. Ultimately, he killed himself with his father&#8217;s pistol in order to &#8220;be with her.&#8221; The story is so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Bond Between You and Your Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fact: If you haven&#8217;t nurtured a loving, trusting relationship with your child, they won&#8217;t be open to your guidance. And they need a lot of guidance. During the first 20 years of life, they have a lot of growing up to do as they avoid the pitfalls of adolescence and prepare for life on their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six Ways to Help a Child Build Strong Character</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a Dad to over a dozen cats in my adult life. The cat in the photo is Cookie, one of the three cats in my family right now. All three display signs of intelligence. I see this in the way they make decisions. For example, at a certain time each afternoon, Cookie will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Amazing What Your Child Has to Learn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Teens Who Take Their Future Seriously Have a Huge Advantage While Growing Up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An obvious fact: very young children don&#8217;t understand about the future. If they&#8217;re 6 years old, they simply can&#8217;t conceive of the fact that in a few years they will be in high school. This inability to comprehend their own desired or possible future extends into adolescence. And if they don&#8217;t exercise future-thinking as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Your Child: the Top 5 Power Skills</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As i write this, swallows have built a nest above our front entrance way, and the momma and poppa swallows are busy catching bugs and feeding them to their three hatchlings. On occasion, we see three little heads peeking above the rim of the nest. Before long, the parents will be encouraging them to leave [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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