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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>Violence: Swimming Against the Current of Our Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s June 2022, and we are learning about mass murders. Almost on a daily basis. Innocent people dying. Even little kids. Did you see this coming? If you didn&#8217;t see it coming, maybe it&#8217;s because you didn&#8217;t want to believe the signs all around us. What do two-year-olds know about the world around them? Easy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mindset of a Power Communicator: 10 Things You Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A common consequence of parenting an adolescent child: the alienated teen. It&#8217;s natural for a growing child to seek more independence. After all, becoming an adult and creating a happy, successful life of their own is the goal. But you want your child to remain open to your guidance along the way. You don&#8217;t want [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Talk to Your Kid about Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The human species, like all other species, exists because of its ability to reproduce. During the fertile years, men and women feel the urge to engage in sexual union, which is necessary to produce offspring. When I was much younger, my friends and I would joke about feeling &#8220;horny.&#8221; I sometimes reflect on how important [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Connect with Your Kid</title>
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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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		<title>Phonics &#8211; The Gateway to Strong Reading Skills</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a little kid, my mother read child&#8217;s books to me. I loved the stories, and I begged her to read them to me over and over. But on my first day of school, I told my mother I wasn&#8217;t ready, because I didn&#8217;t know all my ABC&#8217;s. As she helped me put [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Growing a Stronger PFC during the Years Before Puberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My book, How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain, and most of the hundreds of articles on this blog, address how to encourage, support and coach a young person during the adolescent years to wire their prefrontal cortex (PFC) for the thinking skills that they&#8217;ll need to be a happy, successful and independent adult. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Fun Game that Develops Kids&#8217; Minds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my first draft of the above title, the word &#8220;Underprivileged&#8221; appeared before &#8220;Kids.&#8221; But the game I&#8217;m talking about is chess, which can help make any kid smarter, not just at-risk kids or kids from low-income families. That&#8217;s right. While a lot of people think only smart kids can play chess, the truth is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Smartphones are an amazing window into a world of countless marvels and dangers. Since kids have a lot to learn, giving a child a smartphone needs to be done with exquisite care. In this guest post, Scott Reddler (father of three and author of an infographic about smartphone monitoring) describes a common-sense approach to monitoring a child&#8217;s smartphone use.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Top 10 Fundamentals of Parenting</title>
		<link>https://drdennycoates.com/top-10-fundamentals-parenting-part-one/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 20:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid there were no parenting books, unless you want to count Dr. Benjamin Spock&#8217;s classic on baby and child care. Parents were guided by their instincts, sense of responsibility, judgment, and family traditions. Today, parents still rely on these, but they also have access to hundreds of books and thousands of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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