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Are sleepovers bad for your kids. Not necessarily, but that doesn’t mean we get to be stupid.
Popular article circulating Facebook about Dr. Dobson’s rail against sleepovers.
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Why My Family Doesn’t Do Sleepovers
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Are sleepovers bad for your kids. Not necessarily, but that doesn’t mean we get to be stupid.
Popular article circulating Facebook about Dr. Dobson’s rail against sleepovers.
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Why My Family Doesn’t Do Sleepovers
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How to get your kids talking with you when it seems so tough.
How to encourage communication without shutting kids down or getting automaton answers.
Tips for getting kids to comply with us through communication.
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Tips for Talking to Our Children
Scientific Studies Explain Best
Ways to Talk to Children
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One of the hardest parts of parenting for you to talk about.
How humbleness is necessary in parenting.
The value of looking at your weaknesses objectively, and making changes.
How our kids need to be aware of these weaknesses to normalize their own.
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The winner of the PETAK-free contest.
What does Trey do when he gets home and kids want to play.
Foster kiddo that wrenched our hearts has been removed from home.
Forgetting kids in cars on hot days.
Article on what causes crisis in parenting.
The two homosexual dads that adopted a baby.
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Orphan Famous for Love me Forever Plea at Church Removed From New Home
The Number One Way to Not Forget Your Child in the Car
Modern Day Parenting in Crisis
The Photos of This Gay Couple Holding Their Baby
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Excellent boundaries including kids paying for their own stuff, letting them fail, and minding their manners but without the anger and frustration.
When kids should work for free at home, and when they should not.
Why most parents fail at these boundaries, even though they are excellent!
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12 Ways to Be the Meanest Mom in the World
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An incredible article on supportiveness in parents affecting the size of the brain.
How a nurturing and supportive parenting style can actually effect our kiddos brain functions and protect their little neurons.
How the brain has “plasticity” and can be reshaped to help kids be successful.
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Toddler taped to bed in the last place that I expected it to happen. Why you need to know your school even if it seems “safe.”
Long hair kiddo pic without shirt mistaken for girl and called child pornography.
Teen dies from dehydration and Redbull consumption. The lesson we have been learning that compares to this situation.
What do you do if your kiddo is just…different.
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Toddler Taped to Bed at Daycare
My Son’s Long, Beautiful Curly Hair is Really None of Your Business
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How the expectations of modern fathers is impressively low…but how many are content with it.
How what many call “competent dad’s” is really mediocre fathering.
A challenge from Jeff and Trey to take an honest evaluation of yourself as a father and determine where can you “sharpen” yourself.
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When is the appropriate time for us to discuss religion and politics with our kids?
The keys to allowing kids full autonomy in their choices, without riding the coat tails of us as parents.
My thoughts on Public Education as a homeschool parent, and how it’s probably not what you think.
What the ideal educational system would look like and “no! I would not reform the current system. I would start with a new one.”
A message to teachers and a challenge to be what your students really need you to be.
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Prussian Education System Wiki – this is the Wiki link I discussed in the show on our current education system and its model.