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by Amy Brown on January 11th, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on October 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Parenthood—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…
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on February 13th, 2010 | 29 Comments »
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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