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Your application of the many tips in the Quiet Night, Happy Night series will be most successful if you first consider the bedroom. These excerpts were originally from Kid-Friendly Bedroom, which was part of the Child-Friendly House series.

Spend some time sitting in your child's… Continue

What makes a road trip unbearable and what makes one pleasant?

Do we as parents have any control over the outcome, or are we just subject to our children's whims and outbursts?



If you are a regular reader here, you can probably anticipate my answer. We, the adults, the parents, have significant control ove… Continue

How many times have you heard it: "boys chase the girls!" or "girls have cooties!"? Gender, like race, is a trait that differentiates and therefore, divides. Fortunately, we have control as to how much it divides by how much influence it has on our children's perception of themselves and others? Do there need to be so many "others" or can we give our children the gift of connectedness? Below I've selected chunks of an insightful article, Undermining the “Divisi

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