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Columns by Sharon C.Peters:

• Thinking About Your Family in Challenging Times
• Thinking about Siblings of a Special Needs Child
• One Thing That Helps Many Family Relationships
• A Thought about Helping a Fearful Child
• A Thought about Fearless Children
• Skipping Home from School
• Helping a Child with Self Doubt
• When Should You Teach Your Child How to Lose?
• Screen Free Times for Everyone
• Are our children experiencing too much pressure?
• Helping Everyone Get a Better Night’s Sleep
• New Year’s Resolution – Be Proud of Yourself
• Managing Winter
• Taking Time to Offer Handmade Gifts
• Taking a few minutes at Bed Time to Process the Day
• What do you love and find hard about the holidays at this time of year?
• What’s Great and Challenging about Being a “Tween?”
• Finding Ways to Host at the Holidays
• Lying
• Family Night
• Meltdowns
• Homework
• Back To School
• Some Ideas to Help the Transition to School Go Well
• Helping a Lonely Teen
• Summer
• Enjoying Your Summer Part 1
• Enjoying Your Summer Part 2
• Handling August
• Handling Power Battles at Home
• One Idea for a Family Meeting
• My Youngest Daughter is Hitting Her Sister!
• Moms are Super!
• Balls are Great!
• A Nice Afternoon for Everyone – (Finding a time to avoid saying “It’s time to go.”)
• Family Plant
• Silly Helps – (Revised) – Ideas to Help Your Child Get to School With Less “Fuss”
• Sharing Your Interests with Your Child
• A Great Reward is Play Time with YOU!
• Handling An Overwhelming Diagnosis
• Hard Moments with a Child Often “Go Better” than Parents Realize
• Helping a Young Perfectionist Try Something New
• Parents Need Sleep
• Toilet Training a Three Year Old
• Understandable Emotions from a Single Mom
• Silly Helps
• Youngest Siblings
• Setting Limits on Technology
• Isolation – One of Parents’ Biggest Hurdles
• Helping a Child with Hitting, Biting or other Aggressive Behavior
• New Year’s Resolution – Take a Minute to Notice What you do Well
• Asking Children about Their Day
• Tension In Couples
• Time with Your Child
• Dinnertime
• Establishing Parent Teacher Relationships
• Tackling Challenging Academics by Having Fun
• When Children Hit
• How Much After School is Wise for a 10 Year-Old?
• Are You Ready for Cold Weather?
• Handling Increased Day Care Hours with a 20 month old
• Sudden Outbursts from Children
• One Step at a Time
• Children’s Fears
• Water Play!
• A Few Tips for New Parents
• Meeting Other Moms
• My Special Needs 13 Year Old Might Start Dating!
• Having Fun When Doing Homework
• Parks!!
• Swimming
• Teenagers Benefit from Time with Mom and Dad
• Family Poker?
• Saying no!
• Cell Phones and Parenting
• Does Making Your Child Feel Guilty about Negative Behavior Help?
• Handling Peer Pressure as a Family
• Floor Time
• Stages of Childhood
• Tension and Homework
• A Few Ideas to Help Co Parenting after Divorce Go Smoothly
• 3 Things to Keep in Mind When Setting Limits
• 4 Ideas that Can Help Establish Smooth Bedtime Routines
• The Importance of Physical Activity in Winter
• It’s Working
• A New Year’s Resolution for Parents
• “Losing it” with your Child
• Loving an Angry Teen
• One Idea that can Help When Correcting Children
• Nursing While Working Away from Home
• Tween Asks for “Mom Time”
• A Few Ideas for Parents Who Want to be Less Angry at Their Child
• The value of saying “What do you think?”
• Helping a Teen Through a Big Transition
• The Value of Family Meetings
• Thinking About the Sibling of a Special Needs Child
• Things to Keep in Mind When Saying “No.”
• Once a Week Family Night
• Back to School
• Don’t Give Up!
• Help, My 10 Year Old Won’t Sleep Alone
• Empathy can sometimes help more than solutions
• Six Ideas that Solve Almost Every Family Problem
• Help, My Child Won’t Walk – Stuck in a Stroller
• Asking for Help
• Quote from a young tween – “Great Job Mom You’re Trying to Make us a Family!”
• Remember to Take Care of Yourself This Summer
• Encouraging Children
• Safety and Support from a Mother’s Childhood
• Losing Your Temper
• Parents Sometimes Say Too Much – An Expanded Common Sense Tip
• Laughter
• Handling Worrisome Statements from Children
• Sharing Upsetting News with Children
• Correcting Children/Picking Your Battles – An Expanded Common Sense Tip
• Thinking Together about an Evaluation for a Young Child
• Helping an Angry Tween
• Parents Sometimes Say Too Much
• Correcting Children
• Handling Pregnancy and a Three Year Old
• Rewarding Children
• The Importance of Physical Play
• Staying Calm with An Active Child
• New Stepparent
• Competitive Games
• Helping an Overwhelmed Parent
• Words Don’t Always Work for Children
• Screen Time and Junk Food
• Crying
• Thoughts for Parents who Work Long Hours
• Parental Worries
• Preparing Children for Disappointment at the Holidays
• Arguing in Front of Children
• My Son’s Favorite Childhood Memory
• Thinking About Storm Sandy at a Family Meeting
• Some Thoughts about Families in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
• “You Don’t Love Me! I Don’t Want to Go to School!”
• One Way to Avoid Power Battles
• The Value of Role Reversals
• An Idea to Help an Uncommunicative Child
• When Can “Time Outs” Work?
• Toast for Dinner?
• Does Your Partner Arrive Home from Work Later than You Would Like?
• My Child Doesn’t Want to go to School!
• Teens and Tweens Need to Keep their Parents Informed.
• Intertwined 12 Year Old Twins
• Beginning a New School Year
• Can Mornings Ever Go Well? – “Shaking the Yukkies Out”
• Tip from a Mom – Compliment Night
• Picking your Battles
• When Should Children Get a Cell Phone?
• Home Schooled Twins
• Cruise to Graduation
• Lengthy Bedtimes
• My Child Won’t Eat Vegetables!
• Appreciating Your Child
• 12 Year Old Bully
• Explaining a Consequence to A Child Who Isn’t Listening.
• Things to Keep in Mind when Your Child is “Acting Up.”
• The Value of Cooking with Your Child
• Angry Brothers and Sisters
• My Child Won’t Eat Vegetables!!!!
• A Game that Helps Pressures coming from School
• Helping with the Trauma of 9/11
• Should we Add a Baby to our “Blended” Family?
• Helping a Recalcitrant Child
• Planning Ahead
• Can Long Trips Go Well?
• Power Battles between Parents and Children
• One way to reduce parental stress.
• Solving Problems at Home
• A New Year’s Resolution for Mom and Dad
• My Mom Pays A Visit
• Parenting Teens and Tweens
• Cursing Teen
• Holiday Rituals
• To Buy or Not to Buy – Holidays.
• Hitting
• Oatmeal? Helping an Upset Child
• “Time Out” for Parents
• When, If and How to say no to Tattoos and Piercings.
• Guilt
• Helping a Fearful Child
• Eye Contact
• There is Often No Script for Parenting
• When to Explain Rules to Children
• Helping Children Process the Illness of a Beloved Relative
• Helping an Overwhelmed Child
• Helping a Child Who is Having a Hard Time
• Young Teen Keeps Mom from gyn Visit
• Discussing the First Days of School
• One Way to Change Something You Do or Say to Your Child that Doesn’t Help
• New Mom Has to Go Back to Work
• Beach Story (Using Time off to Reduce Tension at Home)
• Seeking Advice as a Parent
• Tweens and Household Chores
• Helping a Dad Take Care of Himself
• Sleep for Mom and Dad
• Should Our Child Sleep with Our Dog?
• The Importance of Family Vacations
• Setting Limits
• Helping Children Communicate
• Taking Care of Adult Relationships
• Parental Guilt
• Children Learn from their Parents
• Thoughts on the Criticism of Strangers
• Helping Children Overcome Challenges
• When and How to Tell a Child about their Adoption
• Children Often “Act Out” at Home
• A few ideas that can help a child who is being teased
• Tantrums of an 8 year old
• Picking Your Battles – Two Stories
• Adolescents Need Their Parents
• Building a Child’s Confidence through Competitive Play
• Listening
• Talking to Tweens about Sex and Pornography
• Pros and Cons of Video and Computer Games
• Taking Care of Your Self while Parenting
• The value of one on one “dates” with your child.
• Helping a Child with a “Bad” Habit.
• Helping a Child Communicate
• Stages of Parenting
• Bullies
• Children Adore Their Parents
• Forgiving Yourself
• Big Reactions to Little Things
• Explaining Things to Children
• Talking to Teens about their Sexuality
• Talking to Teens
• Smart Parents
• Teens and Drugs
• The Pleased Parent
• Parental Apologies
• Helping a Child with Something “New”
• When to Talk to Children about a Concern
• One Athletic Son, One Lethargic Son; What is a Parent to do?
• Slowing Down
• Peer Pressure and Healthy Eating
• An Important Part of Parenting
• Helping an Upset Child
• Parenting – The Art of Trying
• Helping a Child with a Problem
• Special Needs Children and Stress for Mom and Dad
• One Thing to do with Worries
• Girls, Moms and Appearance
• Tween Out of Control
• Addicted to Computer Games?
• Helping a belligerent teen
• Bullies
• Adopting a Sibling
• Overweight Snacking Teen
• Talking to Your Children about the Economy
• Welcoming a Step Daughter
• Sibling Rivalry
• Helping A Six Year Old with His Fear of Being Alone
• Living Near Your In-Laws
• Communicating with your Caregiver
• Recovering from Miscarriage
• Thinking About the Holidays in Challenging Economic Times
• Healthy Eating Away from Home
• Managing Homework, My Space and Facebook
• How to Help a Distracted Child
• Saying Good-Bye to a Pacifier
• My Child Only Wants Mommy!
• We’re Having a New Baby!
• Leaving Siblings Home Alone
• Talking About Divorce
• Bullying
• Teenagers and Homework
• After School for Young Children
• Holiday Eating
• Halloween
• Camp Crush
• Divorce
• Becoming New Parents
• Summer Camp
• Handling the Workload
• Sibling Competition
• Sibling Rivalry
• Separating at School
• After-School Activities
• Busy Dads
• Bedtime
• Single Mommy
• Talking About Sex to Teens
• Teenage Friends
• Teenage Dating
• Girls’ Dresscode
• Pre-teen Crushes
• Bed Wetting
• Thumb Sucking
• Potty Training
• Stuttering
• Hitting and Biting
• Instant Messaging
• Computer Games
• Children’s Cravings
• What is a “Good” Parent?
• Nursing Moms
• Sleep Routines
• Planning For the Holidays
• First Days of School
• Coping with Your Child’s First Crush
• The Importance of Laughter