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Home: Current Issues: Parenting: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Parenting: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Unholy Anger: Disciplining Ourselves Before Disciplining Our Children - John F. CrosbyThere is a wonderful letter in which St. John Bosco advised his priests to avoid anger in their dealings with the foster children they cared for. Read more... Use the Littlest Discipline Word – No - Ray GuarendiPositive parents appreciate the value of the word no. They depend on the word often, as they base decisions on their youngster's welfare, and not on how much he nags, pleads, sulks, even threatens until be gets a yes. "Love your kids enough to say no when needed," affirms Betty, mother of Judy and Rick from Missouri. "Yes can sometimes be the coward's way out." Read more... Veggie-Tales: Part of a Healthy Media Diet for Kids - Barbara NicolosiThe Greek word for entertainment literally means "to inform with delight." Another definition might just be Veggie-Tales. In a kids' media landscape spotted with insipid purple dinosaurs and cynical Bart Simpson clones, the Veggie-Tales are a fresh, fun, and spiritually healthy alternative. Read more... Video Violence Can Have "Profound Negative" Impact - BRUCE SULLIVANA panel of experts testified on Tuesday before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on the effects of violent, interactive video games... Read more... Violent Videos: A Troubling Trigger - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERViolence can be attributed to many things, but the research is by now quite overwhelming. Read more... We're Scaring Our Children to Death - Peggy NoonanDuck-and-cover drills were never this frightening. Read more... What Are Little Boys Made Of? - MIDGE DECTERIt is nowadays very difficult for a boy to grow up with masculine honor in this society. Read more... What Parents Can Do - William KilpatrickIf parents are really serious about loving their children (and having others love them), the sensible course of action is to bring up lovable children. Read more... When Bad Kids Think They're Great - Carol MilstoneThere is a fine line between high self-esteem and conceit, and probably no one knows this better than Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) psychologist Roy Baumeister, who has studied the effects — in fact, the dangers — of high self-esteem. Read more... Why Young Catholics Leave the Church and How to Bring Them Back - Kathryn Jean LopezThey leave for different reasons. Some saw hypocrisy. Others were hurt by those in authority. Still more disagree with a Church teaching. Sometimes, all they’re waiting for is an invitation back. And often, it’s not the Catholic Church itself that the "fallen away" have a beef with but their particular experience of it. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:10:04
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