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  • Family Cell Phone Contract and Technology Use Policy 
  • How to Talk to Your Son about Pornography – All Pro Dad
  • Top 10 Parenting Tips
  • Research Shows Household Chores Are A Proven Predictor Of Success
  • Spring Break for Families – The New York Times
  • The Decline of Children and the Moral Sense | Psychology Today
  • 5 Bad Kid Behavior Issues That You Need to Break Early – All Pro Dad : All Pro Dad
  • Aggressive boys tend to develop into physically stronger teens, says study
  • How to Parent / History will give you pespective
  • 10 Tips for Teaching Excellence to Your Kids
  • 29 Meaningful Pieces Of Advice For New Moms, From Parents Who’ve Been There
  • Children brought up in loving homes who eat healthy food more likely to have a healthy heart 
  • College drinking: How to Be Intoxicated – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • 10 Things I Want My Son to Know Before He Turns 10 
  • How to Get Your Kids to Listen the First Time | Psychology Today
  • Helping your wife prepare to let go
  • What will you tell your child? Today’s parenting approaches to marijuana use range from zero tolerance to reluctant acceptance to outright permission.
  • Google described as a ‘best friend’ by new mothers | Daily Mail Online
  • A Call to All the Good Enough Parents
  • 15 Rules To Foster Good Behavior In Children 
  • Parents Who Don’t Teach Their Kids Manners Drive Me Crazy 
  • How Playing An Instrument Might Actually Make You Smarter
  • ‘Am I Pretty?’ Videos Posed to the Internet, Raise Questions – NYTimes.com
  • Father/Son conversation starters
  • The linguistic genius of babies | TED.com
  • CDC Study: Kids Experience Fewer Traumatic Events When Raised by Their Mom and Dad
  • Adolescent Boredom | Psychology Today
  • 10 Fun Things to Do with Your Teens | All Pro Dad
  • 10 Parenting Ideas You (Probably) Never Thought Of | All Pro Dad
  • How Parents Can Be Generous Without Turning Children Into Entitled Little Terrors – WSJ
  • The Case for Dedicated Dads – The Atlantic
  • How Boys Teach Each Other to Be Boys – The Atlantic
  • Why geeks do better in life than cool kids
  • Middle Schoolers Who Text A Lot Are More Likely To Have Sex IRL, Says Study
  • Making Caring Common Project: Study finds that students value achievement over caring for others.
  • 10 Things To Do Instead of Grounding Your Kid | Psychology Today
  • 7 Things a Son Needs from His Father
  • ‘The Myth of the Spoiled Child’ and ‘Do Fathers Matter?’ – NYTimes.com
  • When is spanking a child ok?
  • New Dad Survival Guide: The Skillset
  • Happy Parents Make Happy Children | Richard Greenberg
  • Exercising the Mind to Treat Attention Deficits – NYTimes.com
  • High doses of antidepressants appear to increase risk of self-harm in children young adult
  • Making Dinner With Your Toddler: An Activity Breakdown | Honest Toddler
  • Almost third of young people ‘humiliated’ by parents on social media | Mail Online
  • Kids in College: ‘The Price of Silence,’ by William D. Cohan – NYTimes.com
  • Parental Involvement Is Overrated – NYTimes.com
  • Always putting it off? Blame mum and dad! Scientists say procrastination is in the genes | Mail Online
  • Books, and Compassion, From Birth – NYTimes.com
  • Parenting lessons from the 1500’s
  • 5 Things Teachers Wish Parents Knew: Your Children Can Do More Than You Think – NYTimes.com
  • What I’d Say to My Fat Son – NYTimes.com
  • Signs and Symptoms of your child having substance abuse issues
  • What Learning Cursive Does for Your Brain | Psychology Today
  • New Year’s Resolutions: A Chance to Teach Your Family About the Power of Setting Goals | Jon Sundt
  • A Generation of “Firsts” (Part One) | Tim ElmoreA Generation of “Firsts” (Part One) – Tim Elmore
  • The Video Every Mom Must Watch On Repeat Until She Gets It
  • Helping Families Dealing With Cancer: Do’s and Don’ts | Claire McCarthy, M.D.
  • ‘There Is No Pressure for a Girl to Be a Girl’ – Caroline Kitchener – The Atlantic
  • 30 Reasons Moms Are Late | Jenny Isenman
  • Jamie Krug: Grieving for the Other Owen: Imagining the Boy I Never Had
  • Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound – NYTimes.com
  • Playing classical music to your child can improve their listening skills later on in life | Mail Online
  • Perturbed By My Son’s Procrastination | Susan Stiffelman
  • Movies to watch with your kids
  • No One Brings Dinner When Your Daughter Is An Addict
  • Which Country’s kids go to the museum the most?
  • 10 Character Traits I Want to Instill in My Children 
  • The Truth About Violent Video Games and Kids, Part 2 | Psychology Today
  • Talking to Kids About Dating in a Non-Dating World
  • Computers In Classrooms May Hurt Student Reading Skills
  • Why Children Need Chores
  • Study Finds Habits in Children Take Root by Age 9 | Psychology Today
  • Tips For Giving Kids an Allowance | The Art of Manliness
  • You Can’t Save Your Child From Their Anorexia
  • 11 Movies for Dads and Kids
  • Aggressive boys tend to develop into physically stronger teens, says study | Daily Mail Online
  • Why You Should Tell Your Children How Much You Make
  • How Often Do You Say ‘No’ to Your Child? 
  • Toys That Spark a Child’s Imagination 
  • Talking to your child: 6 Ways to Develop Early Vocabulary Skills 
  • 10 Things Your Kids Should Look for in a Friend | All Pro Dad
  • Go From Fighting Over Toys to Sharing Toys — In an Instant 
  • “If I were to design a substance that is bad for college students, it would be marijuana.”
  • The Secrets to Raising a Confident Daughter | Robi Ludwig, Psy.D.
  • 5 Common Sense Parenting Tips
  • 10 Ways to Become the parent — and Role Model — Your Kids Really Need 
  • Three Simple Ways to Prepare Your Child For the Complications of Life 
  • How to Teach Your Children Cause and Effect 
  • All Children Should Be Delinquents – NYTimes.com
  • Benefits of reading long ambitious novels
  • How to be a Great Dad: 18 Tips for Fatherhood | The Art of Manliness
  • Parent Tips for Crisis in the College Years | Psychology Today
  • Does Media Violence Breed Real Life Killing? | Psychology Today
  • 10 Specific Manners Your Kids Need to Know | All Pro Dad
  • 10 Keys to Raising a Great Teenager | All Pro Dad
  • Game Theory Secrets for Parents – WSJ
  • Advice for Freeloaders – Kids living at home until their 30
  • 5 Ways My Dad Taught Me What It’s All About 
  • 20 Things I Learned in My First Year as a Mom 
  • The Problem With Taking Kids on Vacation 
  • The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses
  • 10 Specific Compliments to Give Your Children
  • 7 Things a Daughter Needs from Her Father
  • The benifits of Dad playing with his kids
  • Little Children and Already Acting Mean
  • Conversations starters: Engage your kids
  • 25 Lessons for My Son About Being a Man, From His Single Mother | Zoey Gulmi
  • The online generation: Four in 10 children are addicted to the internet – News – Gadgets and Tech – The Independent
  • The Confidence Gap – Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here’s why, and what to do about it.The Atlantic
  • ‘What Advice Would You Give to a Room Full of Parents?’ | Mark Redmond
  • Do Our Kids Get Off Too Easy? – NYTimes.com
  • Terry Dickson: Time dulls, doesn’t heal parents’ loss on St. Simons Island | members.jacksonville.com
  • 30 Totally Rotten Things Parents Do That Are Ruining Their Kids’ Lives | Beth Woolsey
  • Are doctors diagnosing too many kids with ADHD? – Salon.com
  • Does Porn Hurt Children? – NYTimes.com
  • Famous Artists School Archives Go to Norman Rockwell Museum – NYTimes.com
  • Working With the Teenager’s Internal Clock – NYTimes.com
  • Body-Image Pressure Increasingly Affects Boys – The Atlantic
  • The Dark Power of Fraternities – The Atlantic
  • Why learn a foreign language? Benefits of bilingualism – Telegraph
  • How Can We Help Our Children Become “Grittier”? | Psychology Today
  • Connecting the Dots on the ADHD Fad | Allen Frances
  • The Daily Dot – Awful Georgia Tech fraternity email offers a guide to ‘rapebait’
  • 6 Easy Ways to Create a Bratty, Entitled Child | The Stir
  • Battling ‘Tween Messy Room Syndrome’ – Yahoo Voices – voices.yahoo.com
  • Beth Woolsey: 20 Things Every Parent Should Hear
  • Honoring children upon graduation: Column
  • What Fatherhood Teaches You About Entrepreneurship – Forbes
  • How Homework Could Flunk Your Marriage | Amanda Deverich
  • The Part of Parenting We’re Too Scared to Talk About | Wendy Bradford
  • The Case Against High-School Sports – Amanda Ripley – The Atlantic
  • After A Year Of Parenting, Only One Thing Is Certain
  • The Not-So-Hidden Cause Behind the A.D.H.D. Epidemic – NYTimes.com
  • Dangerous Lies Teenage Boys Believe – All Pro Dad
  • The Truth About Violent Video Games and Kids, Part 1 | Psychology Today
  • Summary: The Opposite Of Spoiled By Ron Lieber
  • How Danish Parenting Works
  • A River of Booze – Inside one college town’s uneasy embrace of drinking
  • Is It Your Fault Your Kids Act the Way They Do? – All Pro Dad
  • College Freshmen Seek Financial Security Amid Emotional Insecurity – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • What Girls Can Say and Do to Stand Up to Bullying
  • 10 Manners Your Kids Need to Know
  • Teen pregnancies fall as youngsters spend more time on internet than with each other
  • The Only Baby Book You’ll Ever Need
  • A Teenager’s Guide to Good Parenting 
  • 5 Ways to Stop Screwing Up Our Kids 
  • Making good decisions about your kids sports
  • No Time for Family Dinner? Try Breakfast
  • 3 Top Tips for Teaching Kids About Money 
  • A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYTimes.com
  • First Children Are Smarter—but Why? – The Atlantic
  • This 4-Year-Old Has A Powerful Message For The World 
  • Empower Your Children to Stand on Their Own Two Feet 
  • Ugh: Girls feel the need to “play dumb” to avoid intimidating boys
  • Problems Connecting with Your Teen? Try These Three Magic Words 
  • Allowance or Bribery?
  • Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity | TED.com
  • Life Lessons From a 4-Year-Old
  • 5 Ways to Cure the “Cool Kid” Curse | Psychology Today
  • Helping the “Bad Kid” of the Family | Psychology Today
  • 10 Questions to Ask Your Child’s Date | All Pro Dad
  • 10 Things Science Says About Being A Mom In 2014 | Innovation | Smithsonian
  • Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School – The Atlantic
  • A Dad’s 5 Life Lessons For His Children 
  • 5 Life Lessons From My Dad (and Favorite Teacher) 
  • 11 Things I Want My Son to Know About Marriage 
  • Children’s language development: Talk and listen to them from birth.
  • Teenage depression and suicide
  • 6 Acts of Kindness to Cheer Up Your Child
  • 8 Things Every Father Must Teach His Daughter
  • Boundaries — and benefits — when a mother reads her teens’ text messages
  • New Dad Survival Guide: The Mindset
  • 10 Things Science Says About Being A Mom In 2014 | Innovation | Smithsonian
  • Read, Kids, Read – NYTimes.com
  • Study: Firstborn girls most likely to succeed – Salon.com
  • A Key to College Success: Involved Dads – W. Bradford Wilcox – The Atlantic
  • 3 Things Parents Have to Actually Do (Not Just Talk About) | Sarah MacLaughlin, LSW
  • Raising Teenagers: ‘It’s Complicated,’ by Danah Boyd – NYTimes.com
  • Raising a Moral Child – NYTimes.com
  • Socioeconomic Factors Determine Kids Success | Mail Online
  • Research on Children and Math: Underestimated and Unchallenged – NYTimes.com
  • Creativity and Parenting Can Mix – NYTimes.com
  • The Overprotected Kid – The Atlantic
  • The number of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has nearly doubled – WSJ
  • Delaying adulthood – Jaded Children, Callow Adults – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Living Myths About Virginity – Nolan Feeney – The Atlantic
  • Book Review: ‘All Joy and No Fun,’ by Jennifer Senior – NYTimes.com Parenthood
  • 14 Pieces Of Wisdom About Life and Marriage For My Sons | Doug and Leslie Gustafson
  • Two-Thirds Of 13-Year-Old Girls Fear Weight Gain, Study Finds
  • 12 Things to Tell My Son Before His Wedding Day | Marci Rich
  • Sex talk that turned me into a prude – Salon.com
  • Homesick at Summer Camp: A Tale of Resilience | Carrie Goldman
  • Toddler Personality Traits May Predict Alcohol Use During Teenage Years
  • Peer Pressure for Teens Paves the Path to Adulthood – WSJ.com
  • Children who watch too much TV may have ‘damaged brain structures’ | Mail Online
  • A Year’s Worth Of Wisdom On Parenting
  • The Touch-Screen Generation – Atlantic Mobile
  • Drinking and (Critical) Thinking
  • 10 True Things About the First Year of Parenthood | Karyn Thurston
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