communication

  1. Family Activities

    Connect with your kids: Share a journal together

    By Molly Cerreta Smith on Jul 16, 2012
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    Try this as an easy and fun way to connect with your kids — start a journal together. An inexpensive spiral notebook is all you need...
  2. Parenting Advice & Columns

    Parenting Guru: The benefits of emotion coaching

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jul 10, 2012
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    You can teach your children how to master their frustrations at a very early age, says Kimberley Clayton Blaine, a Los Angeles-based...
  3. Marriage & Relationships

    How to solve a communication crisis

    By Jessica Padykula on Jul 9, 2012
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    It’s not always easy to communicate your thoughts and feelings to your significant other. In fact, sometimes it can feel downright...
  4. Mom & Dad

    How to fight right

    By Marva Soogrim on Jul 3, 2012
    We know it’s inevitable that arguments are going to come up between a married couple. It can be about the family pet, a bill that...
  5. Child Development & Health

    Raising an activist child

    By Jen Klein on Jun 26, 2012
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    All of a sudden, your preteen son refuses to drink from plastic water bottles and recites information about water bottle usage and...
  6. Parenting

    Is your sex talk sinking in with your teen?

    By Laura Owens on May 10, 2012
    Condoms, Chlamydia, contraceptives and Kim Kardashian's cleavage – your teen and her friends are yakking it all up. You might think...
  7. Parenting How-to

    How to talk to your kids about divorce

    By Kori Ellis on May 4, 2012
    Divorce is tough for any couple, and when you have kids, it gets a whole lot tougher. If you and your spouse have decided to get a...
  8. Teen Behavior

    Is she a honey or a hussy?

    By Jen Klein on Apr 4, 2012
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    It's finally happened. Your teenage son is in love! You can't wait to meet this girl and when you do... you don't like her. She's...
  9. Child Development & Health

    I let my kids curse. Yes, I (*@$&%) do!

    By Jen Klein on Mar 23, 2012
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    You’ve cursed in front of your child. Not intentionally, but you called out a name in vain after hitting your thumb with a hammer,...
  10. Stepparenting

    Stepmom 101: 5 Tips for stepmoms to transition

    By Kori Ellis on Mar 1, 2012
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    With the divorce rate above 50 percent, more and more families are having to adjust to stepparenting. Being a new stepmom can be...
  11. Stepparenting

    Single to married with kids: Tips for the first year

    By Kori Ellis on Mar 1, 2012
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    You went from being a single woman to married with kids -- gaining an instant family overnight. Follow these tips to help you come...
  12. Stepparenting

    Stepmom 911: 5 Common issues and solutions

    By Kori Ellis on Mar 1, 2012
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    Being a stepmom can definitely be challenging. You don't want to be viewed as a pushover or a wicked stepmother. Learn how to...
  13. Parenting Advice & Columns

    Parenting Guru: Can your kids connect without tech?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Feb 14, 2012
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    Maribeth Kuzmeski, author of The Engaging Child: Raising Children to Speak, Write, and Have Relationship Skills Beyond Technology...
  14. Parenting Advice & Columns

    Sibling rivalry: The good, the bad and how to deal

    By Kori Ellis on Feb 12, 2012
    If you have more than one child, odds are that you are already dealing with sibling rivalry to some extent. Sibling rivalry can...
  15. Single Girls' Guide

    How to become a better listener

    By Kori Ellis on Jan 9, 2012
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    Being a good listener is an essential life skill that can impact you both at the office and in personal relationships. Whether...
  16. Parenting

    Military families: Survival guide

    By Kori Ellis on Dec 30, 2011
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    Being a military family isn't easy. The stress of having your husband, wife, child or loved one deployed in the military can be...
  17. Child Development & Health

    Helping your kids discern between message and messenger

    By Jen Klein on Nov 24, 2011
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    Teaching your kids effective communication is a critical part of parenting -- and one we often don’t think about enough. With...
  18. Monday Mom Challenge

    Monday Mom challenge: Don’t shoot the messenger

    By Jen Klein on Nov 21, 2011
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    We’ve all heard the phrase, “Don’t shoot the messenger,” right? And pretty much know how to apply it to criticism or bad news...
  19. Monday Mom Challenge

    Monday Mom challenge: Write it down

    By Jen Klein on Oct 24, 2011
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    How many times has something happened and you have thought to yourself, “I should write that down?” But you didn’t -- and you lost...
  20. Family Activities

    The family meeting

    By Tiernan McKay on Oct 6, 2011
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    If you’re a parent interested in taking the focus off of the chaos of the world and putting it on the family unit, it may be time to...
  21. What He Wants

    Communication: How to get him to open up

    By George Troy on Oct 5, 2011
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    Although it is unlikely that we’ll ever join you in your love of The Notebook , sometimes it is okay to be in touch with your...