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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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					<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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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to interact with a niece recently, a high school freshman I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while. These encounters are rare, since both of us have busy lives and she lives 50 miles away. So I couldn&#8217;t help myself. I had to take the opportunity to gift her with some coaching. &#8220;How [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Help Your Teen Learn Life Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[True story: A young couple got married, and after the honeymoon the guy discovered his new wife didn&#8217;t know how to boil an egg. Yes, he should have known this about her. But as a former Boy Scout, he got to work to help her learn to cook. Also, the young woman&#8217;s mom was a [&#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>My Favorite One-Two Skill Combo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While each of the ten high-impact parent-child communication skills described in Connect with Your Kid are amazingly effective, their power magnifies greatly when used in combination. Without question, my favorite one-two combo is open-ended questions to encourage your child to think, followed by listening. Both draw their strength from compassion and honor the child&#8217;s growing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Difference-Maker: Really Connecting with Your Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if you had great communication skills? Some parents do! But most don’t. When parents connect in ways that strengthen the bond with their child, kids are more open to parental guidance and wisdom. Most parents struggle with this. Learning powerful communication skills wasn’t a part of their education. So now, conversations between parent and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Communicating well is a foundation element of effective parenting. How can you be a parent to your child without communicating? Whenever there are problems between parent and child, ineffective communication is almost always a contributing factor. And yet, when you and I were growing up, no one taught us the best ways to listen, give [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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>A Modest Proposal: Adult Skills for Kids</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ADULTING: &#8220;The practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks.&#8221; I borrowed this excellent definition from an online search; the term is too new to be included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, even though in the past few years hundreds of adulting courses have appeared [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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