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A Message to Moms after Divorce: Help Your Daughters Avoid ‘Daddy Hunger’ – Part II

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Continued from Part I… Here are five ways moms can encourage daughters to have a good relationship with their dads: Recognize that your ex is your children’s parent and deserves respect for that reason alone. If your children hear you make negative comments about your ex, it can have a detrimental impact on them. Modeling […]

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A Message to Moms after Divorce: Help Your Daughter Avoid ‘Daddy Hunger’ – Part I

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As a child, I was never quite sure about the nature of my father’s feelings toward me. When I was very young, I knew that I was Daddy’s Little Girl because we used to make special trips to the seashore where we would collect guppies — putting them into buckets under the moonlight to watch […]

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6 Ways to Reconnect with Your Partner After Having Kids – Part 2

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Often it takes a wake up call to realize that you need to spend more time with your partner concentrating on each other instead of spending all of your time with your kids focusing all of your energy on them. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this article, go read it now! In this […]

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6 Ways to Reconnect with Your Partner After Having Kids – Part 1

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After becoming a parent, keeping the relationship between you and your partner flourishing can be a difficult thing to accomplish. There are several simple but crucial changes that you can make to put the focus back on the couple enough to keep their relationship going strong. 1. Create a Date Night To have a romantic […]

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Teenagers and the Texting Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)

teenagers, texting, communication, generation gap, parenting, family issues, Christopher Jones, Marriage Family Therapist,

As president of the Walt Disney Company’s children’s book and magazine publishing unit, Russell Hampton knows a thing or two about teenagers. Or he thought as much until he was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Katie, and two friends to a play last year in Los Angeles. “Katie and her friends were sitting in the back seat […]

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