Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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What a little education will do…
I have just finished writing a two-part article for Growing Up in Santa Cruz on non-drug therapies for behavioral problems in kids. It started as a single article, but when faced with the masses of information I compiled, I asked if I could have two! So the first article (March) is about the reasons for…
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Sibling Rivalry
My children never fight. My children are so similar that they have little to argue about. We have done such a GOOD job with our children, making sure that they aren’t competitive with each other and they never feel that we favor one over the other. Yeah, right. Here’s the truth: Our children, though similar…
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Do the right thing
I have a confession to make: I’m not absolutely positive that I’m doing the right thing for my daughter. Phew! It was good to get that off my chest. Now on to the real question: How do we ever feel like we’re doing the right thing for our kids? In my case, I have a…
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Today’s Advice
Occasionally it occurred to me that as our kids went through their preschool years, they exhibited pretty much all the major psychiatric disorders. Obsessive-compulsive (“I will only use the pink plate!”), delusional (“I didn’t draw on the wall, my baby doll did.”), hearing voices (“My imaginary friend told me”), depression (“This is the WORST thing…
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Nurturing the Crazy Creative Soul
The kids I have known well…myself, my siblings, and my kids…are wildly, weirdly creative. Though I am a creative person, I also have the soul of the scientist. Whenever anyway says, “This is the way it is,” I think, “Who says so? How did they test that hypothesis?” Today my daughter and I were having…