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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 August 20, 2005

Parenting: Teach Your Kids to Suck it Up

Popular culture conveys to children very unhealthy messages about responsibility. Through its focus on the pampered lifestyles of the rich and famous and advertising that suggests that life should always be a party, popular culture communicates to your children that if it’s not fun, easy, or interesting, they just shouldn’t have to do it. If […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 20, 2005

Parenting: Win the Battles of Will — So Your Kids Win the War

Conflict is a natural part of the parent-child relationship and essential to your children’s separation from you into independent beings. The challenge is not that you are going to have conflicts with your children periodically, but whether they develop into full-scale war that drives you and your children apart, and interferes with their development. How […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 April 20, 2005

Parenting: Fear of Failure

Fear of failure among children in America today is at epidemic proportions. Fear of failure causes children to experience debilitating anxiety before they take a test, compete in a sport, or perform in a recital. It causes them to give less than their best effort, not take risks, and, ultimately, never achieve complete success. Cause […]

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