Parenting Advice: Understanding and Comforting a Crying Baby

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Babies cry, not because they are unhappy, but because they are not content and they want something done about it. It’s not surprising. Babies have limited communications skills, but they quickly learn to use crying quite effectively. It’s up to the parent to determine what source of discontent is causing the crying. Are the clothes not right? Is the baby hungry? Or, does your baby need a nap?

Understanding is Important

When I had my first baby, …

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Parenting-Children-Cooking-Cleaning-Raising Responsible Children Parenthood: Raising Responsible and Service-Oriented Children

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My 10-year-old son has entered the tween phase… where he, on a regular basis, says: “I can’t wait until I’m 18 and I can do whatever I want.” Even though I didn’t want to burst his bubble by telling him that no one ever really gets to do whatever they

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Parenting Question: Would You Let Your Child Change Their Name?

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If you and your partner are anything like me and my husband…, you deliberated over what to name each and every child. In fact, we “deliberated” so much, we finally had to put a moratorium on the baby name discussion with our last child to avoid getting in fights

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