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The Toilet-Resistant Child

30 November 2011 Pax Parenting™
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      You’re the parent of a five-year-old child who is still not potty trained.  You get all kinds of advice.  You may even be criticized.  You may wonder if there is some underlying medical reason that your child can’t seem to do his or her business on the toilet.  After all, your other [...]

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Book Review: Bird, Butterfly, Eel

20 September 2011 Books for Children

The book tells the story of a barn swallow, a monarch butterfly, and an eel who live on a farm, watched by a barn cat (who looks and awful lot like our barn cat, Dave). The story follows them gently through the seasons, and their life cycles. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story is [...]

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Agents of Change

10 March 2011 Big Kids and Tweens

“Be the change you want to see in the world” – Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi’s statement is as profound today as it was in his own lifetime. If we really want to make a change in our families, we must be willing to model for them the changes we want to see. It isn’t enough to [...]

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Creating a Joyful Family

9 March 2011 Faith Filled Family

Joyful family life comes from a family culture of gratitude. And joy begets joy. It is a fact of human nature that we move toward what we focus on. That knowledge alone is a significant tool in making important changes in your family life. Too often, we look for occasions to be offended. And we [...]

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Model Families

7 March 2011 Family Centered Living

Nearly every successful business-person will tell you that the real secret to his or her success has been finding a mentor. Whether that mentor has a direct involvement in his or her life – i.e. personally knows him, or whether that mentor is a person about whose success much has been published, successful people model [...]

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