Excellent Example of MC Creation by post-apocalyptic research institute at Flickr
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Minecraft. What is it and does Trey recommend it: YES!
The benefits of letting your kids play Minecraft and my stark admonition to avoid it as parents…for it sucks you in.
Why it’s personally one of my favorite games my kids like to play.
SHOW NOTES
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Quality time. It’s not about how much time you spend with your kids.
SHOW NOTES
Making Time for Kids? Quality Trumps Quantity
How to Spend more Quality Time with Your Kid
Cheer Up by Nattu at Flickr
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How happiness isn’t a bad thing even if it’s misunderstood by most.
That happiness isn’t the ONLY important thing in life and that kids need to learn how to be unhappy.
Some ways we can help kids mitigate discomfort like being unhappy.
Today on Media Sucks Monday (MSM):
Today on The effects of sugar intake and hyperactivity. Science that proves sugar doesn’t make your kid spaz.
Keeping secrets from our kids. Should we do it?
Bad arguments against against homeschooling and unschooling.
SHOW NOTES
Effects of Sugar Ingestion Expectantcies on Mother-Child Interactions
Keeping Secrets from Your Kids
Bad Arguments Against Homeschooling
Can You Feel the Love by Todd at Flickr
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How many parents want change in their kid, but miss this one crucial step to make it happen.
How most parents hearts, even when they love their kiddos, are at war with them simultaneously.
The places I have caught my (Trey’s) very own heart at war with people, even my kids.
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A quick update on where Trey has been the last week.
Update on my wife Corrie and her recent surgery.
Updates on our foster to adopt process. We’re about to have a new Gibson officially.
Tantrum by Julian King at Flickr
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Are you raising an spoiled American child. You just might be and not even know it.
What the difference between spoiled and blessed is.
How to raise kids that are not spoiled or rotten and appreciate the value of things.
Halo 3 Master Chief by Brian at Flickr
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How, despite claims otherwise, videogames cannot be directly linked to more aggression in kids.
How violent acts of aggression is actually about our teaching as parents or a lack of thereof.
How the Homestead de Gibson approaches violent videogames.
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A wonderful article by Annie Reneau at www.motherhoodandmore.com on how you’re not the worst parent ever if you kids do these things.
A list of things that most all of us have had to deal with as a parent and don’t mean your crazy or your kid is sociopathic.
SHOW NOTES
10 Things I Thought Were Caused By Bad Parenting Before I Had My Own Kids
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Media article on HPV vaccination and how it doesn’t make kids more likely to have sex, why that is, and what works better than fear campaigns.
Kids and naps. How our youngers may not really be benefiting from their mid-day naps and why.
A flip side to our article on vaccinations and why there is plenty of evidence to support that vaccines aren’t just pretty rainbows they are painted to be.
Stay at home parents and time off.
