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Parenting Screen Rules: How Well Do You Score?
By
Linda Mintle
Screen time is a battle ground in most households across America. If you are a parent trying to raise healthy children, how are you doing when it comes to listening to the experts about screen time use in your family? Do your house rules compare to the experts? Take a look at what the experts recommend and…
Can You Over Praise Your Child?
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Linda Mintle
For years, I taught a parenting course called, Dynamic Parenting ©. The course was designed to improve the behavior of children. One of the skills taught was how to praise a child. Praise was broken down into teachable parts. Look at your child Move close to your child Give a nonverbal gesture of approval Praise…
Raising Smart Kids Who Want to Learn
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Linda Mintle
Developmental psychologists have long been studying what it takes to raise smart kids. The authors of Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children, provide insight into what parents can do to bump up key learning in parenting moments. The authors (Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff) contend that we need to move away from just having kids…
Helping Children Deal With Trauma
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Linda Mintle
Today, so many children have to cope with stress and trauma beyond what we would like to see for them. Technology and media have brought events of trauma into our everyday lives. News stories of rape, murder, teen shootings, kidnappings, suicide, AIDS and HIV, life threatening diseases, terror and most recently war are just a…
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