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What Is Collaborative Parenting?

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What Is Collaborative Parenting?

Collaborative Parenting  Collaborative parenting is not ‘letting the child do anything’; it is designed to teach the child safe boundaries and self discipline, so they will be ready to manage life when they reach adolescence and independence. You are the Role Model and a child will copy your behavior and beliefs NOT what you ‘tell them’. A wonderful saying my mother had was ‘Monkey see monkey do’ it is as simple as that, so be what you want your child to be. Most problems arise when parents “Say No but DO yes” or partners are not aligned in their expectations. Preparation, Communication,...

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10 Steps to making Back-to-School Easy(ier)

Posted by on Jan 10, 2013 in Blog, Uncategorized | Comments Off on 10 Steps to making Back-to-School Easy(ier)

10 Steps to making Back-to-School Easy(ier)

10 Steps to Making Back to School Easy(ier)  For your child to be the best they can be, they need to learn effective communication skills, AND will learn this instinctively through their role models  SO be authentic in your own role modelling, use collaborative parenting and effective communication skills to demonstrate the behavior expected. Children are very quick to pick-up when an adult is doing one thing and saying another, (this causes confusion and often anger). What you demonstrate is more important than what you say. 1. Make it fun! (Anger scares a child and inhibits the growth of...

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Are Your Travel Adventures Restricted by Fears?

Posted by on Dec 12, 2012 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Are Your Travel Adventures Restricted by Fears?

download os 10.6 Are Your Travel Adventures Restricted by Your Fears? There are many to chose from, fear of flying, heights, small spaces, the unknown, open spaces, being alone or coping with jet lag, to list just a few! Feeling stressed and tired just by the thought of taking a trip? Many people don’t realize the impact that such fears and phobias can have on their travel plans or even on their daily life. The small voice at the back of your mind is always saying, beware, watch out, just check etc etc. It may be small but every thought is monitored and every action controlled and...

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Illness on sale – Eight quotes from a cancer surgeon that will set your hair on fire

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Illness on sale – Eight quotes from a cancer surgeon that will set your hair on fire

In 2005 alone, pharmaceutical companies spent $4.2 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising and $7.2 billion on promotion to physicians, nearly twice what they spent on research and development. microsoft office 2013 download “Nobody wants to buy therapy anymore,” Truffo told me. “They want to buy a solution to a problem.” This is something Truffo discovered in her own former private practice of 18 years, during which she saw a shift from people who were unhappy and wanted to understand themselves better to people who would come in “because they wanted someone else or something else to...

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Cost of Drug Resistant Disease

Posted by on Nov 6, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Cost of Drug Resistant Disease

Cost of Drug Resistant Disease

Cost of Drug Resistant Disease – Back to the 1950’s Four Corners 29th November, the cost of treating a patient with drug resistant Tuberculosis is now around $100,000,000 per patient per year, with no predicable outcome. Also similarly many “super bugs” now available in most large hospitals, will cost the same to try to treat. Sadly many people just end up having the infected part removed be it a limb or organ. The medical and drug industrie’s indiscriminate use of anti-biotic over the last 50 plus years has finally caught up with everyone. Bacteria has evolved faster than the drugs,...

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What is Feminism?

Posted by on Nov 6, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on What is Feminism?

What is Feminism?

Adobe Illustrator for Mac 10.6.8What is Feminism? This article was written for a national magazine: a great topic which I think need substantial redefinition. This is a great question with at least 100 different answers! Which will probably show how ‘undefined’ the term now is. I am in my 50’s so have seen many changes (my father threatened to leave our family if my mother took work outside the home in 1960)! The work was only part-time at the local telephone exchange, so not much contact with people other than the few in the small local post office of a very conservative...

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