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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>Dr. Alan Nelson Teaches Kids to Be Leaders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though I graduated from West Point, served 20 years in the U.S. Army, and retired as a lieutenant colonel, from age 16 I&#8217;ve always considered myself to be a writer. And since I co-founded what has become Grow Strong Leaders in 1987, I&#8217;ve published over a dozen books and several hundred articles. Ten years [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Constructive Feedback: A Power Skill</title>
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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>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>The Bond Between You and Your Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fact: If you haven&#8217;t nurtured a loving, trusting relationship with your child, they won&#8217;t be open to your guidance. And they need a lot of guidance. During the first 20 years of life, they have a lot of growing up to do as they avoid the pitfalls of adolescence and prepare for life on their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six Ways to Help a Child Build Strong Character</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<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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