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Teach Your Wired Children about Healthy Relationships

March 27th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor Technology, such as the Internet, smartphones, and social media, can have great benefits in helping your children form and maintain relationships. At the same time, if not used with limits and guidance by your children, such use may prevent them from developing the essential relationship qualities and skills that have allowed […]

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Tags: children, messages, parenting, relationships, social media, technology
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Media Teaches Bad Values to Your Children

November 8th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor How powerful and toxic are the value messages that children are receiving from the media today? According to a large body of research, the answer is very in both cases. Though I’m obviously making a judgment on what good and bad values are, I don’t think many parents would disagree with […]

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Tags: children, fame, messages, parenting, success, technology, values, wealth
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The Disturbing Sexualization of REALLY Young Girls

October 8th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Whenever I think popular culture, and the companies that control it for their own profiteering ends, has gone as low as it can go in its wanton disregard for basic decency in general and children in particular, it always seems to find a way to dig deeper within itself and discover […]

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Tags: behavior, clothing, culture, girls, marketing, messages, parenting, sexuality
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Fatigue Is a Parent’s Worst Enemy (and Constant Companion)

January 26th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor An almost unavoidable part of parenting – unless, I suppose, you have a cadre of full-time nannies – is exhaustion, both physical and mental. Too little sleep, too few respites, and too little time dedicated to your own needs can all contribute to a state of deep fatigue that leaves you, […]

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Tags: communicating, expediency, fatigue, mental, messages, parenting, physical
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Your Children Send Messages Too

August 11th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor Though my focus in Your Children Are Listening is on how you can send healthy messages to your children, the message highway is not one way. Your children are constantly sending you messages that you may or may not be getting or interpreting correctly. Your ability to receive and understand those […]

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Tags: behavior, children, emotions, maturity, messages, responses
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