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Do Parents Replay (or Try to Correct) Their Own Childhoods?

July 23rd, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor My wife, Sarah, and I have two daughters, ages 7 and 5, and, thankfully, we have very similar philosophies on how we want to raise our girls. This common ground has enabled us to provide a generally united and consistent front in the messages we send and, overall, how we respond […]

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Tags: children, emotions, experiences, memories, parenting, responses
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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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Set Your Children’s “Defaults” Early

July 13th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor For you to send the healthiest possible messages to your children requires that you fully buy into my notion that children become the messages they get the most. Though it seems to be a pretty intuitive and reasonable concept, I feel the need to thoroughly convince you of the profound value of […]

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Tags: children, culture, defaults, habits, parenting, responses, society, values
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