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Treating Childhood Anxiety Disorder – What Parents Should Know

Treating Childhood Anxiety Disorder – What Parents Should Know

It is normal for children to have fears and worries. They may feel anxious in front of strangers, unfamiliar situations and when they are separated from their parents. Everyday situations and stresses can cause anxiety in children but these are just short-lived anxieties. If your child has extreme unrealistic fear that prevents him or her from functioning normally on everyday life, the anxiety is already a disorder. Treating childhood anxiety disorder is important to help your child live a happy and normal life.

Anxiety problem is the most common mental disorder …

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Categories: Mom and Baby

Should I Change My Faith in Order to Marry My Love?

This subject is often regarded as a controversial and emotive one, and I feel that each case is very different. Relationships are a process of two individuals caring enough to find a common ground for it to work and develop. Faith can be an important part of uniting the relationship and enhancing the connection, but it takes time and interest.
In truth when we first meet someone and there is a strong interest and chemistry that attraction is based on everything about that person. Okay, looks and appearance factor in. But the person’s energy, aura, persona are also an important …

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Categories: Happy Family

Creating Healthy Food Habits to Build a Healthy, Happy Family

Small children go through the age where they explore their world through their senses. Build a healthy family through proper nutrition which improves the functioning of these senses, but these senses also need constant stimulation to develop to their full potential.
Food are also used as an education tool, as all children have an inherent need to tough and play with things, which is a great way to improve their hand-eye coordination. Of course this does mean a certain amount of mess but your home has probably already been turned upside down any number of times with small children. You …

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What You Can Do If Your Child is Being Bullied

What You Can Do If Your Child is Being Bullied

For many parents knowing that their child is being bullied at school can be very distressing and disturbing. Most parents knowing their child is being bullied will experience anger, confusion and even guilt. Bullying is an insidious behaviour the makes a child feel less secure and safe. It can have a great impact on their learning, emotional well being, peer relations and sense of self.

Bullying today, takes on many forms and guises, including physical and emotional abuse, intimidation, harassment and exclusion. Bullying has now also entered the cyber dimension, …

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Categories: Financial Family

Parent/teacher Conference Success

My son?s first ?real? parent conference is scheduled for today. Why am I so nervous? Certainly, as a teacher, I?ve conducted hundreds of parent conferences over the years ? conference time, for us was a nice short day, where either you could get your extra work done, or chat with the teacher next door. Now, I?m on the other side of the desk and I?m working to prepare myself for the 15 min face to face. Yes, I?m one of THOSE moms. Couldn?t you tell?

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Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse Complicated by Violence

Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse Complicated by Violence

Although every incident of sexual abuse of a child is uniquely personal, there are many commonalities. Some incidents are “simple” molestation in which someone touches the child sexually or has him or her touch the abuser. No matter how “simple” the molestation, the results are a complexity of what are usually life-long issues. The most devastating effects of sexual abuse are when violence is involved.

Violence-free sexual abuse

When discussing sexual abuse without violence, understand that all sexual abuse has a violent effect upon the victim. They usually describe the effect of …

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Categories: Mom and Baby Yoga

Save Your Marriage Alone – Make Up For Your Mistakes

Are you in the peak of divorce right now? Your world is starting to fall apart. You don’t have time for your wife and kids. There are new projects coming and you have to stay late at night in your office just to finish your work. You are thinking that after the project that you have made you would be able to bring your family into a grand vacation. What you didn’t know is that Right now you might have realize that money would not save marriage alone, that having a bog house and expensive car will not make your …

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Food Habits – A Hidden Cause of Addiction

Food Habits – A Hidden Cause of Addiction

Can what you eat contribute to addiction later in life? According to more and more health authorities – YES! Habitual use of cola drinks and sugary foods beginning in childhood may set the stage for addiction to other drugs later on in life.

What is a drug? Any substance that causes a temporary ‘high’ or feeling of well-being, followed by a ‘low’, will tend to be addictive. As the effect wears off, another dose is needed to regain the temporary high. Often, the addictive substance is one that weakens the body. When …

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Boomer Humor – Our Memories Give Us So Much to Laugh About

Boomer Humor – Our Memories Give Us So Much to Laugh About

I can remember so many funny things to laugh about when I look back over my life. It helps, of course, that I had so many good friends in grammar school and high school to laugh with. We shared our collective stupidity.

We probably did as many goofy things as you did, maybe more. My friends and I were not really trouble makers but we did have a good time and now we have good memories of a lot of laughs. Years together will do that.

I really …

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Identifying Childhood Anxiety Symptoms

Identifying Childhood Anxiety Symptoms

It is unfortunate, but children can suffer from anxiety as well as adults. For many parents, the symptoms of anxiety in their child may be frightening and even confusing. The symptoms that present in children are often much different than those found in adults.

A term that most parents will need to become familiar with is GAD, also known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Children who suffer from this disorder will often feel anxious or worried over various issues. These issues may include performance at school, relationships that they have with other children as well as other …

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