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More Child Care Tips: After Year 1

By Family Dynamics, Parenting

Child care changes with each milestone your child reaches.  For better or worse, you as the parent must adapt your techniques with each phase! Healthy Family Routines: Provide adequate family time, playtime and outdoor time. It is important that your child feels not only safe and provided for, but loved,…

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Parenting: Dad Style

By Family Dynamics, Parenting

Hurray for dad!  In June, we celebrate fathers and the roles they play in our lives.  So, here’s our spotlight on all the awesome things dads do! Dad Knows Best Modern dads bridge the old stereotypes.  Dads don’t come home from work and just read the paper on a recliner,…

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parenting tips from the five elements

Parenting Tips from the Five Elements

By Family Dynamics, Parenting

A unique source of parenting tips can be found from an ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) system called “The Five Elements.”  Recognizing the personality types derived from this ancient system can help parents create a smoother, more fun family dynamic. Chinese Medicine practitioners refer to five primal forces or archetypes…

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unplugged family time

Family Time: Unplugged!

By Family Dynamics, Parenting

Endorsing “unplugged” family time may seem like a no-brainer.  Of course, we all spend too much time in front of a screen of some sort.  But how bad is it for us…really?  And what can we do about it?  We decided to ask our brain trust of experts to delve…

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Proven child discipline techniques lead to confident parenting.

Confident & Empowered Parenting

By Family Dynamics, Parenting

Parenting is the toughest job in the world. Not only do your decisions as a parent affect your kids in the moment, they reverberate throughout their lives. If you’ve done a good job, your kids grow up healthy with good habits—and most importantly, stay happy! Which is all we really…

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Improving social skills in kids is a modern concern.

Improving Social Skills for Kids

By Family Dynamics, Social & Behavioral

Social skills are an issue for most kids these days, not just those diagnosed with social anxiety, autism, learning disabilities or ADHD.  As you may have guessed, some aspects of our modern lives—electronic devices, the frenetic pace of life and changes in socialization—greatly contribute to the social skills deficits we…

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