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The Parenting Summit Interviews are Live!

Imagine getting the help you need to deal with your worries, fears and realities with raising your children. Parenting did not come easily for me at all, which is why I became a parenting educator so that I could learn more and find better approaches than I already knew. I created The Parenting Summit, in [...]

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Drum Roll Please…. Soon The Parenting Summit – Middle School Edition Site Will Be Live!

I’ve been having a great time working on the details for TheParentingSummit.com! The big picture has been in development since last fall, but booking the experts, finding the sponsors and getting the website up has taken a lot of time. Like parenting, going from gestation to launch is a big job! Okay, I’ll admit it, [...]

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Top 10 Parenting Experts in 2009!

Over the last decade as a parenting educator and coach, it has been an honor for me to work with and learn from so many excellent parenting experts. With so much information overload, and so many parenting experts, it can be difficult for parents to know where to start! To help you out, I want [...]

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Great Call with Top Teen Parenting Expert Vanessa Van Petten

Last night’s teleseminar/webinar with Vanessa Van Petten was so helpful! Vanessa is a wealth of knowledge, and she covered your questions ranging from how to monitor social media usage, to sexting, to how to coach your teen on difficult issues instead of turning them off by asking leading quetions. I learnt a lot and the [...]

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Want to Know What Your Teen is Dong Online and Off?

Like most parents, I often want to know what the teens in my life are thinking. I have had the benefit of Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s ground-breaking teaching in developmental psychology. I have a grasp of what teens are up to developmentally, but that isn’t the same as knowing what they are up to these days.

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