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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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		<title>Podcasts: Speaking about Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From time to time I&#8217;m a guest on a podcast. Sometimes the conversation is about leadership, sometimes we talk about parenting. Here are some links to podcasts that will be interesting to parents: Inside the Orange &#8211; with Rich Stevens KidLeadAcademy &#8211; with Alan Nelson Grow Strong Leaders &#8211; with Meredith Bell Blissful Parenting &#8211; [&#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>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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		<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>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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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably heard it said that being a parent is the hardest job in the world. Children are a joy, but they surprise you and challenge you to do things you didn’t know you’d ever have to do. Often just getting through a day can be a major achievement. You have to be strong to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Kids Are Smarter Than Cats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Coach Your Child to Learn from Experience</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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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