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Use These Positive Parenting Phrases to Avoid Conflict With Your Kids
We talked earlier this week about how to be a more gentle parent, which sounds sweet and lovely but can be hard to pull off when you’re feeling frazzled after a long day with whiny children. As with attempt to shift our behaviour, if we can create new routines or habits, it can help us…
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How to Be a More ‘Gentle’ Parent (and What It Really Means)
When I wrote last week about considering whether it’s time to change our parenting styles as we emerge from the pandemic, one reader reached out to ask me if I’d ever heard of gentle parenting. I did not think I had, but it sure sounded nice, so I decided to dive into the topic. I…
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How to ‘Mindfully Meddle’ as a Parent
On one end of the parenting-style spectrum are the “helicopter parents” who hover in an ever-vigilant attempt to protect their children from basically everything. On the opposite end, we have the “free range parents” who let their kids roam — just like we all did in the good ol’ days, back when we only came…
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5 Less Violent ‘Battle Royale’ Games for Kids
Battle royale-style “one vs. many” games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone have colonised the online space over the past couple of years, with hundreds of thousands of gamers logged in at any given time. But some parents are uneasy with the level of violence in the most popular titles in the genre;…