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Relationships are complicated, whether it’s communicating with parents and siblings or breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend. You can find the help you need to build strong, loving relationships with friends and family through communication.

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Teaching Children Behaviors that Build a Can-Do Attitude

When you teach children behaviors that show them you believe in them, that you value their contributions, and that teach character, they can build a can-do attitude.

Family Ideas for Getting Teens Interested in the World

Adolescent parenting requires creativity to get teens interested in the world beyond themselves. Here are some family ideas to interest your teen in current events.

Teenagers' Issues: Facts on Sexuality

Get the facts about teenage peer pressure and sexuality. You will be alarmed at some of the statistics as they relate to teenagers' relationships and sex.

Travel for Kids and Grandparents: Building Memories that Last

Travel for kids of all ages means discovery, laughter, and memories. Grandparents looking for a great vacation, try taking your grandchildren on educational field trips. You'll both learn a lot.

Parents' Relationships with Teens Require New Communication Skills

Parents' relationships with their teens change when adolescent behaviors seem to close off channels of communication. Here's how to get them to open up.

Gender Behavior and Attitudes Begin at Home

Children learn about gender behavior and attitude from their parents. Are you teaching your kids about equality at home? Learn how to model good behavior and teach equality to your kids.

Fun Family Activities: Cooking with Kids

Cooking is one of the fun family activities that can bring parents and kids closer together. Relaxed expectations and a sense of discovery enhance kitchen learning.

Family Ideas for Encouraging Kindness in Children

The behaviors we teach our children when they are young can often determine the actions they will take as adults. Learn great family ideas for teaching kindness to kids.

Parents' Issues: Don't Let Stress Overtake Your Life

Every parent feels stressed at times. It's how we deal with parent stress that's key to staying sane. Learn how to maintain your personal health and wellness and keep peace at home.

Children and Divorce: Soften the Blow for Kids

The health of parents' relationships will determine the effects of divorce-related stress in children. Soften the blow by being involved and setting good examples. You'll be teaching character and helping your child.

Listening Skills Help Adolescent Parenting

If your teens never tell you anything, maybe you're not using the right listening skills. To parent teenagers, you need to review how to listen so kids will talk.

Family Devotion Affects Teenagers' Behavior

Studies have shown that parents who spend quality time with their kids and help them set goals produce kids with less teenagers' issues. Learn the secret to raising healthier teens.

Making Peace with Your Parents: Relationships Can Survive Holiday Stress

The holidays are not always happy, when parents' relationships with their own parents are unhealthy or negative. One woman discovered how to make peace with her past.

Tips for Successful Adolescent Parenting When Blending Families Through Remarriage

New marriages can cause stress in children as they adjust to a step-parent and step-siblings. A parent's relationships with the new spouse and any set of kids should be handled carefully and with planning.

Six Places To Find Real Friends On Campus

Students who get involved in campus life and find good friends in college are more likely to graduate. Join the party and get the academic pay-offs too.

Travel for Babies the Simple Way

Traveling with babies can be overwhelming if you bring along every toy to keep him entertained. Learn about free infant activites that can make your travel much easier.

Teenager's Stories: What I Learned the Hard Way about Teenage Peer Pressure

One student shares her real-life story filled with advice for teenagers on how to identify real friends. She shares how teenage peer pressure destroyed a friendship and caused other problems.

What I Learned the Hard Way about a Parent Leaving

A parent leaving can cause teenagers problems and stress. Megan Mitchell has been there. She offers advice for teenagers on how to deal with depression, stress, and other related problems brought on by a parent's absence.

Teenager's Stories: What I Learned the Hard Way about Real Friends

Sometimes, it's hard to know who your real friends are. Chelsey Daniels learned how, the hard way. Read her story and her advice for teenagers on choosing good friends.

When Is Disrespect a Sign of Something Serious?

Learn the ten warning signs that indicate when your teenager's behavior becomes more than just "normal" rebellion.

Birth Order and Children's Behaviors

Did you know that firstborn children can be perfectionists, while the baby of the family tends to take more risks? Being aware of how birth order affects what we say and do can help parents with everything from teaching chara...

Family Ideas for Getting Along

Whether they're working on toddler learning or teaching character, brothers and sisters have a lot to give one another. Take a peek inside several households to see how these families relate.

How Parents Can Help Their Kids Get Ready for High School

A school counselor offers tips that can help parents get their kids set for high school academically and socially. Learn ways to deal with teenage peer pressure and academic stress in children.

Real Life Story: "I'm Listening, Dear"

How do mothers and daughters communicate when personality differences crop up? This mom does whatever it takes to listen—even it if takes all night.

Real Life Story: Sweet Revenge

A hilarious description of that parent-stress-reducing quality time after school, which can include a few practical jokes along with the news of the day. Kids and mom share a sense of humor.

Real Life Story: Making Allowances

Children’s allowances can present challenges for parents. Having a sense of humor helps! Read about one family’s experiences with the world of money: allowances, jobs, and attitudes toward this necessary evil.

Real Life Story: Dropping Out without Falling Through

Read about one mom’s story and how, despite her son’s oppositional behavior, she managed to keep him from dropping out while giving him a very distinctive outlook on life.

Why Kids Drop Out of School

The risk factors in this article are the main reasons teens are dropping out of high school. Learn about each future predictor for dropping out and how to keep your kid in school and on the path to success.

What Parents Can Do to Keep a Child from Dropping Out of School

Research shows that parents of students of all ages can play an important part in keeping their kids in school and making sure they graduate successfully. Learn tips for elementary, middle school, and high school success.

Teens, Body Image, and Self-esteem

This article on body image explores how to tell the difference between normal teenage behavior and actions that are cause for concern. The article goes on to explain what to do if your teen’s behavior is worrisome.

Eating Disorder Facts for Parents of Middle School Girls

If you have a teenage or preteen girl, you will want to read the alarming gender behavior statistics about eating disorders and other adolescent behaviors that are presented in this article.

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