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Discipline and Communication
- 10 Guiding Principles: Strategies to Change Your Teen's Thinking and Preempt Crises
- 10 Ways to Help Kids to Really Say No and Buck Peer Pressure: An Excerpt from Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them
- Affirming Your Children's Voice: How and When to Encourage Your Child to Speak Up
- All Around the Table: How to Have a Family Meeting
- Angry Emotions: Your Child's and Yours
- Are You Listening To Me? Communicating with Your Teen
- Arguing and Back-Talk: Excerpted from Perfect Parenting by Elizabeth Pantley
- Arguing and Back-Talk: It Takes Two to Argue
- A World of Diversity: 6 Tips on Talking to Your Child About Race
- Curb the Cussing: How to Cure Your Preteen's Foul Mouth
- Daddy Play With Me! An Excerpt from the book Hidden Messages: What Our Words and Actions are Really Telling Our Children (McGraw-Hill, 2000)
- Discipline Ideas That Really Work: How to Teach Your Kids Without a Power Struggle
- Don't Divorce Your Children: Children and Their Parents Talk About Divorce: An excerpt from the book
- Don't Just Say "No": Setting Effective Boundaries
- Fathers and Sons: Embracing the Changes
- Girls Gone Wild: Get Your Preteen Off the Fast Track
- Grief and Toddlers: Can They Understand Loss?
- Grunts, Snarls and Verbal Abuse: How to Break the Silence and Poor Communication Patterns
- How to Adopt a "Pollyanna" Parenting Attitude This Summer: Adopt a Lighter Attitude
This Summer - How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too: An Excerpt
- How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too: Excerpts from the Book by Sal Severe
- How to Promote Responsibility: Holiday Discipline Without Stress, Punishments or Rewards
- How To Talk to Your Kids About Anything: 10 Tips: Excerpted from the Talking With Kids About Tough Issues Web site, a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
- I Love You: How to Say It with Meaning
- Just Say Yes to Anti-Drugs: Keep Your Child Drug-Free
- Loosen the Grip and Tighten the Reins: Parental Supervision Is Important
- May I Kiss You? Talk to Your Teen About Date Rape
- Mean Teen: Recognizing Early Signs of Violence
- Meltdown Moments: Dealing with Preschool Temper Tantrums
- MySpace, Your Space Whose Space Is It, Anyway? Experts Teach Parents How to Take Back Control
- No Butts About It: Talking to Your Kids About Smoking
- Not MY Kid! When Your Child Is the Bully
- Parent Talk
- Playing the Sporting Game: 12 Tips to Help You Show Support, Encourage and Teach
- Playing With Words: The Unsavory Art of Swearing
- Play the Cleaning Game: Sweep Your Child off the Couch
- Relational Aggression: Helping the Young Victims of Emotional Bullying
- Share and Share Alike: Preventing Bad Behavior from the Start
- Solution or Punishment? When Consequences Don't Work
- Stop, Look and Listen: Tips for Improving Communication with Your Kids
- Straight Talk About Drugs: Giving Your Kids the Facts About Drugs
- Straight Talk About Sex: Giving Your Child the Facts About Sex
- Tackling the Tough Stuff: How to Talk to Your Teenage Son
- Tantrums, Fussing and Whining: An Excerpt from The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007) by Elizabeth Pantley
- The 7 Biggest Discipline Mistakes: A Primer for Puzzled Parents
- The Consequence System: Use Opportunity and Responsibility to Parent Your Preteen
- The Four Corners of Love-Based Parenting: How to Develop a More Trusting and Honest Relationship
- The Gift of Sarcasm: How to Train Your Kids
- The Know-it-All Stage: The Good, the Bad and How to Keep Your Sanity
- The New and Improved Silent Treatment: 5 Ways to Connect With Your Children
- The Teen Behind the Mean: Cracking the Shell of Today's Tough Teens
- Time-out, Time-in: What Should You Do When a Child Misbehaves?
- Too Young to Talk About Sex? Think Again!
- Wartime Parenting: The Do's and Don'ts of Talking to Children About a Parent in the War Zone
- When Bad Things Happen: Talking to Children About Disasters
- When Your Preteen Sings the Blues: Depression in Your Child
- Winning the Whining Wars: Words That Empower
- Win or Lose: Playing With Grace