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Extended Family Relationships

Most families visit their parents and in-laws during annual vacations but there are only few families, who know how to have fun with in-laws and have a loving atmosphere when all extended family members meet together during holiday time. Extended family relationships need to be nurtured too. Planning ahead for family and social events, saving money for buying gifts from …

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Don’t Transfer Your Anxieties About School Interviews On To Children

When it comes to getting children admitted to formal schools, most parents take it very seriously. Rightly so, because the school in which the child will study for the next 14 years will play a very important role in defining the child’s personality and life-path. No wonder, we feel anxious about how our child will perform in the interview. Sometimes, …

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Don’t Set Up Tests of Trust

Trusting children seems to be a significant factor in building their self-esteem. Children sense when you are testing them. A test of trust proves there is little or no trust. Rather be confident that mutual trusting, which in extended process, will grow naturally as your knowledge of each other grows. Trust-growth happens most naturally when you and the child are …

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Encourage Children To Talk To Other Adults

It is sometimes helpful to redirect children with high emotions to a third person. Children’s self-Esteem can be strongly threatened when they must deal directly with the people with whom they are highly emotionally involved. Parents are often unable to view their own children objectively. This realization became clear to me when I taught first grade and had my daughter …

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Don’t Burden Your Child with Over-Expectation

“We will not accept anything less than 85% from you in the finals”… “You’ve been learning for 2 years, why didn’t you win the first prize?”… “We want you to become a doctor, you’d better get good marks in science”… “I can’t believe you forgot your lines on the stage. It was so embarrassing for us.”… How many times have …

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