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		<title>Your Child Needs Your Wisdom&#8211;Share It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Kids Desperately Need Wisdom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Important Conversations &#8211; Will You Have Them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eventually, your teen may want to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Most parents become concerned at this point because these relationships are new, and their child may be feeling natural sexual urges and want to explore. Of course, the consequences of teen sex could be an unwanted pregnancy. Frank conversations can help prevent such [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Amazing What Your Child Has to Learn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heman Bekele is a 14-year-old boy who won First Prize in 3M&#8217;s Young Scientist&#8217;s Challenge for working to create an affordable soap that could treat skin cancer. Read more about him here&#8230; As a young man, he wasn&#8217;t focused on being popular. He wasn&#8217;t on social media trying to get dozens of &#8220;likes.&#8221; Instead, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teen Advice from an Unusual Source</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A classic conflict: a teenager who is discovering who they are and wanting to be popular is tempted to give in to peer pressure to do things that are ill-advised or even dangerous. It&#8217;s the kind of conflict that few teens know how to deal with. Have you tried ChatGPT, the AI program that gives [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Their Products Are Addictive, But They Don&#8217;t Care</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today I read a disturbing article. The truth: the executives of tech companies that create social media don&#8217;t care. They not only don&#8217;t care if their technologies are addictive, they&#8217;re counting on it. They don&#8217;t care that vulnerable children become sad and depressed from using their products. They don&#8217;t care that social media are platforms [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Dreaded Unwanted Teen Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some pretty awful things can happen during adolescence. One of these tragedies is an unwanted pregnancy. I believe that parents need to &#8220;get real&#8221; about the risk that their child could get involved in an unwanted pregnancy. Think about it: At puberty, kids begin developing adult bodies, and they experience powerful sexual desires. But they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Heartfelt Rant about Race</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Children are miracles. Loving parents know this. But kids start out life innocent and only learn what they observe and they&#8217;re taught. And these days, slogans such as &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; are visible everywhere. When required to declare race on a form, my wife and I check the &#8220;White&#8221; box. And yet, my wife&#8217;s skin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The One Thing That Beats Peer Pressure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Violence: Swimming Against the Current of Our Culture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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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