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How to Stay Happily Married With Kids

Aug 1st, 2011
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Marriage and FamilyGuest author Bonnie Foshee

Keeping your marriage alive is very important for having a happy and healthy family. You need to work on your marriage as well as having family time. Do you know the happy marriage recipe?

Raising a family can be challenging and stressful at times. However, the common goals and emotional, financial, and physical investments made can be a common bond between husband and wife. One that compliments their marriage relationship.

Of course, like anything else worthwhile, maintaining a healthy husband and wife relationship with children underfoot takes effort. The following tips can help keep marital bliss alive:

Happy Marriage Recipe

Every happy marriage begins and ends with the same ingredient; the willingness to negotiate. The stumbling block in some relationships, however, is that while the husband was taught to take the upper hand, the wife may have been trained to cooperate. (more…)

Father Daughter Relationships

Feb 16th, 2011
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Guest author Johnny Frost

All human relations needs some sort of effort from us to maintain them and nourish them. From all the relationships we have, family relations will be without question the toughest and at the same time the more important relationships we have in our lives. The reason that family relationships are often so difficult is the fact one can’t modify your family; you can’t simply resign and start over. We’ll have the same mom and dad, siblings, sons and daughters throughout our lifetime. This is the reason we ought to work to get the best connections with the family members.

From all the relationships in a family the one that is seen most neglected is the father daughter relationship; This is the main reason, we as dads have to give the most of our attention to our father daughter relationships. (more…)

Smart Parenting Tips

Feb 11th, 2011
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ParentingGuest author Charles Lloyd

Parenting tips can be found everywhere. You can read them in parenting books and also on the Internet. There are many websites in which the main content is about parenting and other relevant things about it. But always remember, not all the tips given are effective. Only a few of them are effective. Let me give you some of the effective parenting tips that really work.

Instill good behavior through positive reinforcement, not through punishment or bribery. Be your child’s greatest encourager Always encourage them to do better. Don’t intimidate them. That will not do any good for your child. So as much as possible, encourage your child for their efforts. Praising and encouragement are two different things. Praising would be a gift or reward you can give to them for a job well done. Encouragement is given for their effort. Encouragement will always give them the spirit to strive for the best. Always encourage them to do good things. If your child is doing something you don’t like, talk to them, without screaming at them. Screaming and shouting should be eliminated. Remember that a level head will always prevail, screaming will only elevate the situation. (more…)

The Power of Biting Your Tongue

Oct 4th, 2010
by Gary N. Larson.
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Bite Your TongueHave you ever said something you later regretted? I certainly have. Many times. One time when I felt like letting my daughter have a verbal lashing, I didn’t. I bit my tongue and learned an important lesson in the process.

My oldest daughter Erika was home from college for the summer and for one reason or another we were just not getting along. This is what I recorded in my journal that day:

Today was Mother’s Day. It was a good day. However, first I want to note what I feel was a significant thing that happened to me today. My relationship with Erika lately had been less than warm. It seemed we were clashing about something on a daily basis and I was so down and depressed about it. I just was so sad inside. I had no smiles in me. It was like I had a dark cloud following me around. And of course last night it happened again when we had some not-so-nice words about what you call a car gas cap, of all things! I wanted so bad to just chew her out and tell her how I really felt about the way she talks to me. I felt like telling her if she wanted to live here she better treat me right or she should just go live somewhere else. But I bit my tongue and said nothing.

Well, this morning I still had the gloomy cloud over me. I was in the bathroom about to shave when Erika came in. She smiled at me and then apologized about what she said last night. I told her that her apology was accepted and that I forgave her.

I was really amazed that the dark gloomy cloud over me totally lifted. From that point on my whole day was great. I felt so good inside like a light had been turned on. Even my headache went away.  

Two things I learned: First the value of holding your tongue. If I had chewed her out I’m sure we would still have bad blood between us. The second thing I learned was the power of our moods and how much they affect everything we do – for good or ill. Interesting.

Next time you get the urge to verbally berate someone, think twice and bite your tongue. You may be surprised at the outcome.

How Strict Should You Be with Your Goals?

Oct 1st, 2008
by Gary N. Larson.
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Good morning! I want to talk about how strict or rigid should you be in keeping goals. For example, in my case I set a goal to go to bed each night at 10:30 p.m. How rigid should I be with that and should there be exceptions?

My answer to that is that there has to be exceptions at times but they should be few and far between.

For me last night was one of those exceptions. The only time there should be an exception is if there is a higher priority at play here that supersedes the lower one. For example, a higher priority would be my family and my relationships with my children. In this case it was attending a performance that my son was in.

Marching Band

Let me just explain what it was about. My soon-to-be 17-year-old son is a member of the local high school marching band. He plays the sousaphone. (Yes, that’s him in the center of the photo.) I thought it was called a tuba but apparently a tuba is played sitting down such as in a concert. A sousaphone is simply a version of the tuba used by marching bands. Anyway, my son and his band have worked extremely hard on their performance. For those of you who have never been involved with marching bands, they actually have competitions where many marching bands get together and compete. Each band puts on a performance that includes a number of elements. They have judges who judge the competition and they give awards at the end. This is a huge event that begins in the early afternoon and goes on until after 10:00 at night. (more…)

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