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Anxiety and Children: Parenting your Sensitive and/or Anxious Child

Read this article even if you haven’t dealt with anxiety and children, special needs, disrespectful children, or otherwise challenging-to-raise children! Chance are you automatically have judgments when you see children having a tantrum or acting poorly in public, even if those judgments are sympathetic to the child or the parent.How you react can be part [...]

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Praise is the New Criticism; How Hyper Parenting is Backfiring

A young college student said this powerful statement, “Praise is the new criticism,” on a CBC special last night on Hyper Parenting. He went on to say that behind every praise is the expectation that the behavior will be repeated. I’ve taught for years that we have to be very careful with praise. This young [...]

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