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2012 Golden Teddy Winners: Parenting Resources
Parent Education Class or Program Winner: Hop to Signaroo Hop to Signaroo snags top honors again this year for helping parents give their tykes the gift of communication — before they can talk. Founder and instructor Nancy Hanauer, a credentialed teacher with more than 20 years of experience tea
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Ask the Parent Coach: Tips for Positive Discipline in Hot-Button Moments
Q: My 3-year-old child will not listen to me! I am tempted to spank her to get her to do what I say!!! (I do admit to previous spankings.) When it is time to leave the house, I just can’t get her to stop what she is doing. Sometimes it seems impossible for me to get her shoes on! I get so mad a
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Father's Day Fun
Father's Day Best Sure, you'll let the Big Guy sleep in late and you'll make him a mammoth breakfast without bacon limitations. Have you thought about what happens after breakfast? Fear not, intrepid Father's Day celebrants! ParentMap has got you covered with a passel of great ideas for cel
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The Shame Game: What Parents Need to Know
Having grown up in a traditional Jewish family, I’ve fancied myself somewhat of an expert on guilt. Turns out, I’m much more familiar with shame. Did you just have a visceral response — and not a good one — reading that word? Shame. There it is again. Most of us have an aversion to shame: our own,
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When Words Hurt: 5 Common Phrases That Parents Should Avoid
We all remember them — the remarks that our parents repeated ad nauseam throughout our childhood: “Wait until your father gets home!” “Because I said so!” “Wipe that look off your face!” Let’s face it: These kinds of comments are still grating after all these years. Now we’re the parents — a new,
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Shared Parenting: Why Modern Families Are Choosing Equality
Lynnwood dad Billy Farrow can throw a tea party like nobody’s business. He gets plenty of tea-drinking practice as the main caretaker for his daughters, Gwen, 3, and Jane, 1, while his wife, Tanya Farrow, works as a second-grade teacher. In between his night and weekend shifts as a restaurant manage
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Kindering Celebrates 50 Years of Providing Essential Early Intervention Services
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Kindering, a not-for-profit neurodevelopmental center founded in 1962 by five Eastside mothers of preschoolers with disabilities. In the five decades Kindering has been providing early intervention services and support, the number of children helped has g
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Helping Your Child or Teen Manage Anger
Anger is a natural, healthy emotion. And like all emotions, anger needs to be expressed — the key is learning to express it appropriately. It’s important for adolescents to understand that anger is normal and is felt by everyone. Anger is also powerful, in part because it is fueled by adrenaline. T
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