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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Goal-setting parent guide—free download
Read the beginning of Suki Wessling’s goal-setting parent guide and download the rest!
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Half-empty nest syndrome
He’s not going to sleepaway camp! Before you know it, they grow up and leave the nest.
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Support your teen with goal-setting
Teens thrive when they feel that they have agency, choices, and a direction.
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The Value of Goal-Setting
Last year I made a sort of self-referential decision. I had been working on goal-setting with my kids, first my older one (just about to take off for college) and then with my then-13-year-old. I thought, “Wow, the goal-setting materials for teens that I’ve found are so hard to use with homeschoolers… I should write…
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4 reasons why schools shouldn’t play “immigration police”
In using schools to get at illegal immigrants, Britain is doing the wrong thing. Our government is currently doing the right thing. Let’s keep it that way.