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How to Swaddle your Newborn baby

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July- August 2010

How does change affect your family? Get some ideas for smooth transitions! Ages and stages and current events.
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May- June 2010

Are you tried of saying No! Get some ideas for ways to reduce your use of this word. Including ages and stages and current events!
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March-April 2010

Ways to be TV savy, current events and more!
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Solo (single parent) Summer Time Routine

Solo Summers
Challenges Facing the Single Parent
By Heather V. Long

For some children, the end of the school year will mean a move to a new classroom. For others, it may mean choosing a camp or a recreational program followed by a new class or school in the fall. Summer might also mean vacation travel, hot days, [...]

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Fostering Great Communication with Your Children

End One-Way, Dead-End Conversations Forever! How to Foster Great Communication with Your Children
“How was your day today, sweetheart?”  “Fine.”  What did you do at school?”  “Stuff.”  “Is there anything you’d like to talk about?”  “No.”  “Okay.  See you at dinner time.”
This is an actual transcript of a conversation between one poor mom and her elementary [...]

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Free Bipolar Support Groups

Free Bipolar Support Groups
The Montana Warm Line, a program of the Montana Mental Health Association, is proud to announce the implementation of toll-free Call-in Bipolar Support Groups! No matter where one lives in the state, all that is needed is a phone to join this group. The groups are currently facilitated by Evan Rick, LCPC [...]

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Relaxing as a Parent

As parent when we hear the words “self-care” it brings to mind bubble bathes  with soft music playing- at least for this writer. Yet how do we take care of ourselves to enable us to care for those around us. Here are a few articles that may help you find that balance.

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101 things to Help Your Budget

As parents we are often looking for great tricks to reduce our spending. In a recent parent forum this was the topic. Yet finding useful ideas that we thought were useful proved to be difficult. We did find an article from Parenting Magazine that had some good ideas. To read it click here.

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Zero to Three- Family Matters Most

In a national study of 1,615 parents with children birth to three, revealed that the way parents were raised is a major influence on their own approach to parenting. To read the full report click here FamilyMatters_HR

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