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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>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>Life is Hard: Raise a Strong Adult</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I write this, Vladimir Putin has decided that he wants Ukraine to become a part of Russia. The people of Ukraine don&#8217;t want this; they want to remain their own nation, separate from Russia. But rather than enter into peaceful relations with Ukraine, Putin has decided to bomb Ukraine into submission. The lives of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the Hard-Working Young Adults out There</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ve heard about helicopter parenting until you&#8217;re sick of it &#8211; parents who prepare the road ahead for their kid instead of preparing their kid for the road ahead. Julie Lythcott-Haims wrote a fine book about the phenomenon: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Over-Parenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dad Talks to Daughter&#8230;About the Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it&#8217;s going to be a butterfly.&#8221; &#8211; Buckminster Fuller This quote made me think of my West Point class. Before I arrived there, I had made straight A&#8217;s for 12 straight years, graduating as valedictorian. But during my first semester as a cadet, I was amazed at how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Outshine Every Star</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On a clear day Rise and look around you, And you&#8217;ll see who you are. On a clear day How it will astound you That the glow of your being Outshines every star. As I listened to Barbra Streisand sing &#8220;On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever),&#8221; written over 50 years ago by Alan [&#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>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>Parents: Give Yourself a Break</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Caring parents who consider the advice of experts are on a journey to &#8220;get better&#8221; at raising well-adjusted adults who succeed in life and work. But it&#8217;s not easy. It&#8217;s not supposed to be easy. The culture is working against you &#8211; the teen culture and the larger influence of society. Also, as you learn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Handicap Your Children By Making Their Lives Easy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my book, How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain, I explain that adolescence is a sensitive time window for developing foundation thinking skills in the prefrontal cortex and how to maximize that development. Important insights, I assure you. But establishing the basic skills for critical thinking and judgment is only one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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