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How to Teach Proper Manner to Your Children
Good manners are not only a subject for parents to teach children. They are actions for parents to show children. Do you say "Please" when you make a request of…
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How to Teach Your Child Basic Cooking Skills
What is the one skill that will be useful—even necessary—to your child all of his or her life? Not the ability to throw a touchdown pass. Not the ability to…
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How to Teach Your Child Basic Self-Defense Skills
Provide your child with basic self-defense skills. This is important not only for maintaining your child's self-confidence and self-esteem, but also for insuring your child's life. In our society today,…
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How to Teach Your Child How to Read and Follow Written Instructions
A big part of your child's sense of self-confidence comes from the ability to know what to do in emergency situations, when solving problems, and when trying to get things…
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How to Teach Your Child Rejection-Coping Skills
Every child at some point will face another child, a sibling perhaps, or even an adult, who will say, "Go away. I don't want to play with you. I don't…
How to Teach Your Child to Fix Breaks and Rips
Things break. The first tendency of a parent is to fix the break, mend the torn garment, put the arm of the doll back on, sew on the button, or…
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How to Teach Your Child to Give
Give your child the opportunity to give. The child with self-esteem gives voluntarily. Encouraging your child to be generous even when it isn't his or her idea helps build self-esteem.…
How to Teach Your Child to Save Money
Help your child at an early age to start and build a savings account. Give your child an opportunity to earn money and add to the account on a regular…
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How to Teach Your Child to Take Responsibility for Their Actions
Children who are forced to take responsibility for their own actions know, "Mom and Dad consider me capable of acting on my own, and they count me as a valuable…
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How to Tell Your Child about Sex
The child who is told the "facts of life" within the context of a value system is a child who knows, "Mom and Dad trust me with this information; they…
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How to Teach Your Child What to Do When He or She is Lost
Teach your child how to read a map. Children who have some grasp of how to get from where they are to where they want to be are less timid,…
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How to Teach Your Children Good Language Skills
Early in life, your child will have a keen awareness of whether he or she is "fitting in" with peers, schoolmates, or teammates. The ability to fit in is important.…
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How to Teach Your Child to Learn to Share
Three-year-old Cody Smith knew what the word sharing meant; it meant that he couldn't sit and hold as many toys as he wanted when his friend, Jim, came over to…
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How to Train Your Child to Get Used to Cleanup Routines
From a no-more-tears shampoo to disposable diapers, products abound to make bathing, diapering, and shampooing as palatable as possible to preschoolers and their parents. It's expected and even predicted (as…
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How to Supervise Your Child’s Blog
Adults are not the only ones enjoying the benefits of blogging. Young children are also lured to this hobby due to the increasing popularity of social networking sites like Friendster…
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How to Give Your Child a Teamwork Experience
Encourage your child to be part of a team. In fact, through the course of his or her childhood, your child can benefit from being part of several teams. Your…
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How to Give Your Child Advance Warning
Whenever possible, prepare your child for new situations and new experiences. Boost your child's confidence level by providing "advance warning." Prepare your child for a new house. Talk about the…
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How to Give Your Child an Inheritance
Leave something to your child. A child who receives an inheritance is a child who knows that his or her parents were thinking of the future, were considering his or…
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How to Give Your Child Freedom to Explore the World
Give your child the freedom to explore the world, within the bounds of health and safety. In so doing, you'll be giving your child the confidence that comes from knowing,…
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How to Give Your Child Opportunities to Teach You
Give your child opportunities to teach you something that he or she knows but that you don't know. Perhaps nothing gives a child a greater "high" than to know something…