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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, 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>Character Is Based on Behavior Patterns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Coach Your Child to Learn from Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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[At about the age of 12, plus or minus, a child&#8217;s body and brain are flooded with growth hormones to begin the physical development needed to become an adult. The growth period lasts about ten years. We call it adolescence. During this gradual transformation, the child becomes a different person. They may not even be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was in a hurry to get home, but so were many other people in rush hour traffic. I had to wait in line to turn right and then immediately I had to wait in a long line at a stoplight. When the light turned green, the car in front of me didn&#8217;t move. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My New Definition for the Term &#8220;Lean In&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<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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