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<description><![CDATA[Nigel has been a paid youthworker since 1991 with a wide range of experiences from nice high school kids; to youth detention centres; to growing his own children [and now grand children!]; to working with parents; to presenting in schools to well - ask and he won;t bite!]]></description>
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<title>How and When to Tell Your Child They Were Adopted</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When to tell your child they were adopted can be a dreaded discussion that the adoptive parents shouldn't feel so reluctant to have. There is quite a bit of fear related to the topic and it is equally experienced from both parties in the discussion. The parents are fearful of what the child's reaction may be and the children are often afraid to learn the reasons why their biological parents put them up for adoption in the first place.]]></description>
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<title>Instilling Organization in Your Child's Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time management will always be a necessary life skill no matter how old you are. Scheduling, planning, and keeping appointments are just a few of the elements that go in to managing your time. Teaching children at an early age the importance of this attribute will only help them to be more prepared for the world that awaits them. Here are a few ways to help your children stay on top of the clock.]]></description>
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<title>14 Thoughts to Make Your Child Save Their Money</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To an average child, saving is not a priority. They may feel that there is no point in saving at such a young age and they instead want to spend any money that falls in their hands right away. But you know better and from experience you know the benefits of starting to save at a young age.]]></description>
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<title>6 Ways to Support Your Child's Sporting Abilities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If your child shows the ability to play one sport or several, then it is your responsibility as a parent to do your utmost to encourage them so that they can become skilled and gain confidence. Urge them on as they develop their abilities and show them the important life lessons that can be learned.]]></description>
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<title>5 Ways to Support Your Gifted Child</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:21:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You are now sure of it. Your child is gifted, and you want to do your best to support her. As the parent of a gifted child, it is important that you understand the challenges and opportunities this presents to your child.]]></description>
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<title>5 Steps For Your Child's First Day at School</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's here. Your child's first day at school. You've both prepared. All the crayons and pencils are sharpened. His schoolbag is packed.]]></description>
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<title>Turn the Supermarket Into a Classroom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:15:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learning is an adventure and the universe is the classroom. Parents who hold this belief are able to turn the supermarket into a classroom and, indeed, turn every situation and circumstance a child encounters into a learning experience.]]></description>
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<title>Coping With Your Child's Disability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every parent hopes for a healthy, normal child but sometimes the unexpected happens and, due to genetic and other problems, a disabled child is born. How does a parent cope, especially when you know that there are challenges enough with a normal child and these are magnified with a child facing a disability?]]></description>
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<title>7 Tips If Your Child is the Bully</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A bully is a parent's worst nightmare. Nothing gets us as anxious and torn as seeing our young, vulnerable children afraid to go out because some bully is being mean, or worse yet, beating up on our children. We can only plan for this eventuality and devise various scenarios of what we would do should the occasion arise...]]></description>
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<title>Preparing Your Child For The Hospital</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Adults need adequate information to prepare for situations which are unfamiliar to them. Just like adults, maybe even more so, children too need to be prepared to venture into unknown territory. When children are scheduled to go to the hospital for whatever reason - tests, operations and procedures - you should do what you can to minimize their levels of anxiety.]]></description>
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<title>5 Tips For New Step-Dads</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So you have recently married a woman with kids, and now it is time to become a proper stepfather to the child or children. Becoming a stepfather to your new children can be one of the hardest things in a new marriage. Most men want nothing to do with the children and most children don't want a stepfather either, especially if they still have their real father around.]]></description>
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<title>5 Ways to Teach Independence to Your Children</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:48:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mothers have a tendency to pamper their kids. And so do grandparents. And so do some aunts and uncles. Sometimes, even fathers take too much care of their kids--especially their daughters. What do you get out of that?]]></description>
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<title>Acne Be Gone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you been faced with embarrassing acne and don't know what to do to get rid of it? Have you tried everything but nothing offered any satisfactory long-term results? What about trying some proven home remedies in an attempt to alleviate your acne problems?]]></description>
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<title>What is Acne?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Acne has been called many different names over the past years but in reality they all refer to the same skin condition. Acne is actually a disorder of the oil glands.]]></description>
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<title>Remedies For Combating Acne</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Acne can be very problematic and cause you to feel like you are hideous looking. It can take a toll on your self-esteem and make you feel like you are not as good looking as everyone else. Once you clear up the acne can you imagine the results that you will see? There are some tips that can help to clear up your face if you only take the time to give them a try.]]></description>
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<title>Acne Treatment Options</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:22:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are some forms of acne that are caused by certain health conditions which requires attention from a medical doctor in order to find an effective remedy for it. It is considered a very common occurrence for acne breakouts to occur during the time of puberty and this has been attributed to the severe changes in hormone levels during this particular period of time.]]></description>
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<title>What Teens Fear Telling Their Parents?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:19:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once children enter their teens, sometimes there develops a potential communication gap between them and their parents. It can be extremely difficult to find common ground for any deep and meaningful conversation.]]></description>
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<title>Managing Parenting In Your Busy Schedule</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:19:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The cost of living, particularly for families, can be extremely high these days.  Many parents are driven into working two or more jobs simply to make ends meet. Both the mother and the father are working; the children are either left with grandparents or with other carers. A normal working day can involve up to approximately 12-14 hours. All this just to make ends meet.]]></description>
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<title>How To Tell If Your Teenager Is Using Drugs</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:09:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Deception or concealment and the use of drugs and alcohol in teens go hand in hand. Because drug use is illegal and dangerous, teenagers are not able to use drugs without having to hide their problem from parents, teachers and other authority figures in their lives. Drug use is also a costly habit, and teenagers rarely have access to the financial resources necessary to sustain a drug habit.]]></description>
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<title>Alcohol Abuse and Troubled Teens</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:08:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alcohol Abuse in troubled teens is increasing. Alcohol gives teenagers the power to express themselves without inhibitions. It allows them to self-medicate to numb the pain of a turbulent world around them. Alcohol use in teenagers can get out of control and lead to death.]]></description>
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<title>Why Does God Not Answer Me?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:41:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Probably all Christians go through times when it seems like their prayers are not answered. However, if you pray with the right motives yet receive no answer, it does not mean that God is ignoring you. He might be answering in a way you never expected.]]></description>
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<title>How to Give When it Hurts</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:40:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you sacrifice for others who have a real need, it is a true model of Christian giving. However it is not easy to give when it is a great sacrifice. It hurts yet God blesses this type of giving.]]></description>
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<title>How Do You Know an Open Door is From God?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:29:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you know when a door opens if it is God's will? Here we discuss how to recognize when an open door is clearly not God's will. And, we also discuss which direction to take when it is unclear as to if an open door is God's will.]]></description>
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<title>Doing the Right Thing - No Matter What</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:27:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doing the right thing is not always the easy or convenient thing to do. But doing the right thing has the greatest impact on others as we set out to live an example of our faith in God. There are plenty of models in the Bible that clearly show us what the right thing to do is.]]></description>
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<title>Why Parenting Is Important?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:26:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Parents are the most important teachers in their children's lives. Children learn most of their moral values from their parents. If you have noticed most children imitate their parents.]]></description>
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<title>What Are The Challenges Facing Parents Today?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:25:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Parenting is a gift that God bestows on us. It is a great responsibility. However, in today's society the job is getting tougher and tougher.]]></description>
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<title>Tips And Tools Of Communication For Parents With Teens</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:09:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In some respects, you do not know what parenting is until your children hit their teens. It's a whole new ball game.]]></description>
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<title>The Parent's Responsibility in Sex Education</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:08:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Parents ought to be the first source of sex education for their children. Don't think that because children can learn about human sexuality in school, your responsibility to teach them about sex has been removed.]]></description>
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<title>The Changing Face Of Educating Parents</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:08:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Educating parents has been developing over the last couple of decades. In many places in the world, today, there is a widespread intensive effort to support parents through educational programs.]]></description>
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<title>Parental Responsibility</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:07:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Children are not easy to raise, they do not come with any guidelines and they most definitely do not come with any kind of pause button. They just come with a whole lot of emotional and physical needs.]]></description>
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<title>Family Time And Good Parenting Go Hand In Hand</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:07:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is essential that you spend quality family time with your kids. You will not get this time back. These are the few days you have to build memories that will last for the rest of your life.]]></description>
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<title>Avoiding Internet Dating Dangers for Teenagers</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:37:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of Internet dating sites that are easily accessible by teenagers should be a concern to both parents and authorities. Because many Internet dating sites are offering free services to everybody, many child predators and people with malicious intent towards teenagers are finding their way towards dating sites. They disguise themselves as another teenager looking for a date or somebody that only wants to be friends with the younger demographic.]]></description>
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<title>Conflict is Inevitable</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:27:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is your immediate response to conflict? Do you wish it didn't exist or could be eliminated from life completely? Do you always back off and do nothing in a quest for and a belief in 'anything for a quiet life'?]]></description>
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<title>Initiation and the Teenager</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:25:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In pre-industrial cultures, the transition from childhood to adulthood was accomplished in a short time span, and often accompanied by a decisive ceremony, such as the Jewish Bar Mitzvah. Nelson Mandela describes in painful detail the day, at sixteen, when he was accepted into adulthood in a traditional ceremony of circumcision.]]></description>
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<title>Three Stages Of Adolescence</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:07:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Commentators agree that adolescence can be broken down into key stages. Narramore and Lewis, in 'Parenting Teens', establish four bands of youth in which distinctive patterns of behaviour can be seen. They label these pre, early, middle and late adolescence. Pre-adolescence, extends from 10 to 12, early adolescence from 13 to 14.]]></description>
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<title>7 Things Teens Don't Like In Their Parents</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:45:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Of course they realise that parents are human and emotional beings, but they don't like to see angry parents. Especially if they are angry at each other (Mum and Dad fighting) and it doesn't help when they are disciplined by a parent in an angry state. Please keep your arguments in private and never tell someone off until you have calmed down.]]></description>
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<title>5 Things Teens DO Like In Their Parents</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:02:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part of growing up is understanding people, learning how they act and think - observing behaviours as young people try and work out who they are. So they love it when their parents can be real; when they don't need to act intelligent, or to act strong, or to act calm but to allow them into some of the real conflicts that the adult world provides. When we show emotion, we hug them - just being ourselves.]]></description>
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<title>Parents And Youth Ministry</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:41:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love it or hate it the fact remains the same parents are inextricably linked with youth ministry. I have experienced the good, the bad and the ugly side of the relationship but it is clearly one that is here to stay. I suggest, therefore, that you spend some time thinking the issues through to enable you to increase the good, reduce the bad and eliminate the ugly.]]></description>
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<title>The Top 10 Things A Parent Can Do To Help Their Child Reach Their Ultimate Potential</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:39:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[often we can stifle the imagination of our children by passing comment in a negative way; it can even be communicated by our tone of voice. We need to be careful what signals we give and make only positive, challenging comments that will not put limits on their thinking.]]></description>
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<title>Priorities For Parents</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:26:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In an age where we face constant attention for our time, talents and resources we have had to learn to prioritise - work out what is important to us for our family at this stage of our life. The same is true for parents - so I would offer two priorities for parents.]]></description>
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<title>5 And A Half Steps On the Inevitable Journey From Childhood To Adulthood</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:12:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If we are to understand teenagers then it will be good for us to understand some of the journey that they take from childhood to adulthood - the journey of adolescence. I don't intend this article to become a theoretical thesis on the journey but rather an overview of the types of issues young people face and some of the implications. ]]></description>
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<title>When I Was Your Age - 3 Things Missing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:05:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I was your age ... those words precede many sentences to children and young people. I don't wish to shatter any adult illusions but it doesn't actually matter what follows those words as young people aren't listening. In a sense they feel they have heard it all before.]]></description>
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<title>Raising Teens on a Tight Budget</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:52:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Financial pressure is at a peak when you have teenagers in the home - will they ever understand that money doesn't grow on trees? Learn how to raise teens whilst on a tight budget by reading this article.]]></description>
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<title>12 Things You Should Never Say To a Teenager</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:32:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some things are best just left unsaid, certain things just aren't helpful - here are 12 of them! Saying these things to your teenager won't be helpful. ]]></description>
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<title>Daughters - How to Live with Them but Remain Sane</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:56:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We will consider daughters from both a Dad's and a Mom's point of view although the information is also useful for any youthworker working with girls as it gives insights into how they think and how they need to be treated.]]></description>
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