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		<title>Talks: The Window of Opportunity for Wisdom</title>
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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>How to Cure Your Kid&#8217;s Screen-time Addiction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The pandemic has been tough on kids. Online classes, more time at home&#8230;kids could be excused for spending more time in front of screens. While it&#8217;s true that technology has some amazing benefits, there&#8217;s this: It&#8217;s addictive. The rewards from using it make a child want more. The habits formed by repeated use change the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Your Child Ready for College &#8211; Really?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One parent I know pushed her child hard to punch all his tickets in high school. He was a smart kid, but lazy. She felt she had to manage him to meet his requirements. His real love was playing video games, so he decided he wanted to be a game programmer. At college, however, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the Hard-Working Young Adults out There</title>
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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>Teens Need Lots of Talks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems like yesterday when I published Conversations with the Wise Uncle: The Secret to Being Strong as a Teenager and Preparing for Success as an Adult (First Summit, 2012). Eight years ago! It&#8217;s a series of stories about a young boy named Chris and his uncle Ray, who mentors him during his growing up years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Path Will Your Child Choose?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lived long enough to be aware of the sometimes remarkable paths that lives take. When I was a West Point cadet, my activities and achievements were quite a bit different from my high school experience. I know the same was true of my classmates. For example, a good friend of mine, one of my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Kid Got Lucky: From Loser to Legend</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was a terrible student,&#8221; he said, &#8220;always staring out windows or looking at the clock, waiting for class to be over.&#8221; From a very early age, the only thing that interested him was excitement, danger, and risk-taking. He considered schoolwork pointless, and ultimately graduated near the bottom of his high school class. He found [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Most Teens Don&#8217;t Care about Getting Smarter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 17:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First, here&#8217;s what I mean by &#8220;smart.&#8221; One long-accepted understanding of &#8220;smart&#8221; involves acquiring knowledge: learning facts and basic principles. This is the primary business of middle school and high school. Kids understand this aspect. It&#8217;s the kind of &#8220;smart&#8221; that gets them an A in a course. But this is not the kind of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Am I? A Teenager&#8217;s Strange Search for Identity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw something striking while shopping for groceries the other day. A young boy, about 13 years old, was walking just ahead of his parents. No, not walking. Sort of dancing, as if he were a lurching, broken robot. A green bunch of hair shot straight up from the top of his head. The back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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