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Lying and trust We catch children hiding the truth from the time they are quite young. Lying or keeping secrets is a defensive instinct that protects the child from too much vulnerability.	Parent-child conflict resolution I realized that to Jason, this scene made absolutely no sense. They put themselves in the other boy's shoes and couldn't see any reason why the person who was supposed to love and care for him suddenly turned mean.
Going roadtripping...with the kids In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming. We settled at last on a cross-country road trip from New York to Oklahoma, USA, to see family. Thus began our planning of a long car trip.	Defining creativity For many people, "creativity" is a term synonymous with artistic expression.
Stopping a child from throwing objects When a young child throws an object, it’s a parent’s reactive response to scold the child and take that object away from him. He may then pick up another object and throw that one, pushing the adult to anger and frustration.	Making connections through gift-giving and receiving I don't know about you, but every year as the winter holidays begin to creep closer, I start to have a moment of panic. Well, maybe it is not so much panic as much as dissociation about how many gifts to purchase and what it all really means.
Teaching the art of giving While my daughter will certainly get the gifts that she has expressed interest in or requested, I do not want the receiving of gifts to be what she equates with Christmas, no do I want it to be the cause of most of her joy surrounding the season... read more	Children protected from all corporal punishment in Estonia Estonia has banned all corporal punishment of children, including in the home, becoming the sixth State to do so this year.
The effects of punishment and appeals for honesty on children’s truth-telling behavior This study examined the effectiveness of two types of verbal appeals (external and internal motivators) and expected punishment in 372 children’s (4- to 8-year-olds) truth-telling behavior about a transgression.	Tantrums are opportunities to connect Whatever your experiences with your child, I hope you will understand that I love my daughter very much, am attentive to her, hold her, nurse her and do my very best to parent her from my heart.

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