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    Parenting Guru: Secrets to a happy family

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jan 29, 2013
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    Want a happy family? Learn to stick together through the rough spots and practice what you preach, says Scott Haltzman, M.D.,...
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    Parenting Guru: Help your kids feel safe at school

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Dec 19, 2012
    Our hearts break every time we think about the families in Newtown, Connecticut, and how they’re struggling to cope with the horror...
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    Parenting Guru: Do you parent with authenticity?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Dec 11, 2012
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    Whether or not your child gets into an Ivy League school shouldn’t be how you measure your parenting skills, says Madeline Levine,...
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    Parenting Guru: How to parent with simplicity

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Nov 20, 2012
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    Want to banish your kids' stress? Clear the clutter, take away the trinkets and bring on the rituals, says Kim John Payne, M.Ed.,...
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    Parenting Guru: Grade school mean girls

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Nov 6, 2012
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    If you’ve got girls, you’re likely going to worry about the eventual mean girl experience. But it turns out the social problems and...
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    Parenting Guru: Is ADHD good?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Oct 18, 2012
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    According to the most recent Centers for Disease and Prevention reports, 9.5 percent of U.S. children have been diagnosed with...
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    Parenting Guru: Want to raise a future innovator?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Oct 9, 2012
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    If you thought getting your kids “college-ready” was the key to a bright future, think again. Though business leaders, educators and...
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    Parenting Guru: When you stop enabling

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Sep 25, 2012
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    Kay Wills Wyma, author of Cleaning House , earned an MBA and worked at the White House, but her greatest challenge may have been...
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    Parenting Guru: Do your kids get good sleep?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Sep 18, 2012
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    Sleep doesn’t always come easy. Homework, activities, technology and socializing cut into the night, and even if kids get to bed...
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    Parenting Guru: Are your kids a healthy weight?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Sep 11, 2012
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    It’s simple when you think about it. We gain weight when we take in more calories than we burn. “It’s what we call a positive energy...
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    Parenting Guru: Raising bilingual kids

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Aug 28, 2012
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    Following the success of their parenting blog, SpanglishBaby, co-authors Ana Flores and Roxana Soto molded their ideas into a new...
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    Parenting Guru: Are your kids homework-trapped?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Aug 21, 2012
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    When does homework become too much? According to clinical psychologist Dr. Kenneth Goldberg, roughly 10 percent to 25 percent of...
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    Parenting Guru: Can coaches shape boys into men?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Aug 14, 2012
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    Esta Soler, an expert on violence against women and children, founded Futures Without Violence 30 years ago and made it into one of...
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    Parenting Guru: What it takes to make friends

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jul 31, 2012
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    What do parents worry about most when it comes to their children’s friendships? Bullying, peer pressure and being left out, says...
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    Parenting Guru: Getting kids to listen

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jul 24, 2012
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    If you tend to get stuck using the same script with your kids after having the same argument, while getting the same frustrating...
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    Parenting Guru: How available are you?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jul 17, 2012
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    What’s the radical way to parent your tween or teen? Being unconditionally loving and accepting, says Dr. John Duffy, author of The...
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    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...
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    Parenting Guru: The difference between boys’ and girls’ brains

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jul 3, 2012
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    For every time you hear, “It’s a boy thing,” or “She’s all girl,” and you think, “Yeah, but why?” — we’re here to tell you it’s a...
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    Parenting Guru: Do you blow off your kids?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jun 26, 2012
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    Busy? Parents today are swamped, stressed and overwhelmed. So where does that leave the kids? We turned to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,...
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    Parenting Guru: Are you a mean mom?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jun 19, 2012
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    Denise Schipani, the mom of two boys, ages 7 and 9, wrote Mean Moms Rule: Why Doing the Hard Stuff Now Creates Good Kids Later...
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    Parenting Guru: Can girls dodge the drama years?

    By Julie Weingarden Dubin on Jun 12, 2012
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    Haley Kilpatrick was the new girl in middle school and an easy target for mean girls. She ate lunch alone in the girls’ bathroom to...