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ParenTips by Dr. Marilyn Heins ParenTips by Dr. Marilyn Heins

ParenTips provides busy parents with commonsense advice, skills and strategies for everyday parenting. These skills and strategies WORK, not every time with every child, but often enough so you will see a difference in your child's behavior. You will feel happiness and a deserved increase in parental pride; you are getting it right! (e-mail us )

It is my hope that these ParenTips will solve your parenting problems and answer your parenting questions. Happy parenting!
  -- Marilyn Heins, M.D.

ParenTips

Common Concerns  ||  Contemporary Issues  ||  Discipline  ||  Health & Safety Parenting Skills  ||  School & Learning  ||  Teens  ||  Worrisome Behaviors
COMMON CONCERNS Issues nearly every parent will face Angry Kids Angry Parents Balking at Training Banishing Baby Bottles Bullying I: How to Deal with a Bully Bullying II: How to Help a Victim Co-Sleeping? Early Speech Delay Fear of the Dark Gender Gender Identity Hitting Hurt Feelings Imaginary Playmates Interrupting Making Friends My Kid Hates to Lose Nightmares Nose Picking Procrastination Sex Play Sexuality Education Sibling Squabbling Sleep Summer Bedtimes Tantrums Thumbsucking Toilet Training for Working Mothers Toilet Training Today CONTEMPORARY PARENTING ISSUES Parenting issues arising out of the communities and culture in which we raise our children today Absent Fathers Answering Tough Questions Big Divorce Mess Catastrophes in the News Children's Access to the Internet Chores Combat Consumerism! Conserving Our Environment Death of a Child Death of a Parent Delay a Divorce? Deployed Dad Divorce Divorce Prevention: Premarital Version Divorce Vows Does it Take a Village? Don't Be a Parent Wimp Family Meals 'Good' Divorce Grandparents Guns How to Parent in the New Millennium How to Teach Values Interfaith Marriage Joint Custody Kind Kids Latch-Key Kids Latch-Key Kids II: Any Benefits? Making Time Count Manners Maternal Employment Maternal Employment: Re-Entry at Night Maternal Employment: The Morning Rush Movies Perfect Divorce? Pets I: Things to Think About Pets II: The Rewards Post-Divorce Dating Prevent Divorce Regret Raising Non-violent Children Restaurants Single Mothers Stranger Danger I Stranger Danger II Teaching Kids Patience Terrorism Terrorism's Aftermath The Importance of Fathers Toy Guns or Not? TV TV and the Developing Brain Whirlwind Kids DISCIPLINE How to discipline effectively Aggression in Young Kids Alternatives to Spanking Consistency Curb Cussing Daring Discipline Tactics Defiance Discipline Do's Discipline Don'ts Discipline-Phobia How to Stop Spanking Your Kids Losers in a Power Struggle Master the Effective Command Power Struggles Sassing Spanking		PARENTING SKILLS Parenting 101, Strategies A Useful Parenting Strategy Dividing Your Attention How to be a Strong Parent Overparenting Parenting Books Parenting Job Description Parenting Skills (General) Parents Are Teachers Picking Parenting Battles Picking Parenting Battles Raising Responsible Children I Raising Responsible Children II Remedial Parenting Scared Parent Syndrome (SPS) Strategic Parenting Take a Parental Time-Out! Top 5 Parenting Strategies Underparenting HEALTH AND SAFETY Answers to questions about raising our kids healthy and keeping them safe ADHD Anorexia Asperger Syndrome Avoid Food Fights Caffeine and Kids Carbs and Kids Circumcision Don't Drive Drunk! Fast Food Fat-Proof Your Kids Fight Fat! Food Safety Frequent Visits to School Nurse He Won't Eat Vegetables Hospitalizing a Child Junk Food and Mindless Eating Keeping Kids Safe My Child is Too Fat My Toddler Won't Eat Never Break a Safety Rule! Nutrition I Nutrition II Obesity Parental Safety Lapses Prescription Drugs: Questions Sick Kids I Sick Kids II Swimming Safety Vegetarian Diet for Kids? Vitamin Supplements for Kids? SCHOOL AND LEARNING Every parent's concern Bilingual Households College Readiness Early Kindergarten? Gifts That Grow Home Schooling Homework Kindergarten Readiness Music Lessons Parent-Teacher Partnership Preschool or Not? Raising a Gifted Child REACH! Reading Households School Summer Camp TEENS Alcohol Baby Sitting Can I Trust My Teen? Dating Driving How to Wake up a Teenager Sassing Teen Smoking Teen Contraception Teen Condom Teen Privacy Teen Talk Teen Telephone Usage Teen Responsibility Teens and Money WORRISOME BEHAVIORS Help with behaviors many children will exhibit Breath-Holding Spells Conduct Disorder Delayed Speech Lying in Little Kids Lying in Older Kids Nail Biting Stealing Stuttering Superactive Kids Whining I Whining II
Common Concerns  ||  Contemporary Issues  ||  Discipline  ||  Health & Safety Parenting Skills  ||  School & Learning  ||  Teens  ||  Worrisome Behaviors

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