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Child & Family WebGuide - a directory of sites on child development, teenager and family issues.

Child & Family WebGuide - a directory of sites on child development, teenager and family issues.

Great Alternatives Search Engines That Are Unknown to Many Other than the big four: Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, how many search engines do you know? One? Two? Five? Below I have compiled a list of some of the great alternative search engines. Video search: Blinkx Blinkx is one of the more successful video search engine. Sound search: FindSounds If you are looking for a particular sound files to embed in your site, you won’t have any luck with Google. Meta Search: Clusty Meta search engines are those that search and display results from a variety of search engines. Clusty is one such meta-search engine that combine its search results from various sources. Visual cluster search: Kartoo For those who prefer to see more visual details, Kartoo displays your search result in the form of a image cluster. Forum search: Omgili Although forums are a good place to look for advices and solutions, it can be time consuming to find the right forum, right category and right post just for one answer. Code search: JExamples and Koders Glossary search: MetaGlossary

How to Parent in the Digital Age: An Interview with Raising Digital Families Author Amy Lupold Bair | Tech Savvy Parents May 1, 2013 at 6:00 pm , by Leticia Barr With the online world changing at such a rapid pace, one of the challenges that parents face is keeping up with the digital age that their kids are growing up in. Amy Lupold Bair is former English teacher turned blogger and social media marketer as well as a mother of two elementary aged children whose familiarity of the online space and experience in raising her own digital kids led her to write Raising Digital Families. In the book, Bair writes,“The technology that your children and their friends use daily may be unfamiliar to you. Available online or found in the technology section of your local bookstore, Raising Digital Families is a handy reference guide for parents who are weighing the pros and cons of bringing various devices into their homes, allowing kids to play online games, allowing the use of social media as their teen turns 13, and how to ensure they remain safe. TSP: You’re raising digital kids. This is a tough one! Add a Comment

MetroDad: The Rules: 25 Life lessons for my daughter My father has never given me any advice. The one time I remember him even trying was when I was 18 and on my way out of the house for the evening. As I recall, he briefly looked up from his newspaper and said, "You know about condoms, right?" End of conversation. Thank you, Obi Wan Kenobi. In all seriousness, it always deeply wounded me that we never had any of those father-son conversations where he would counsel me about life and give me lessons of an admonitory or hortative nature that might provide a road map for how to live my life. Needless to say, ever since my daughter was born, I've been bombarding her with advice on a near-daily basis. My list of lessons that I want to pass down to her is virtually endless and constantly changing but I thought I'd write some of those lessons down here. Some of these lessons are humorous. However, all of them are true... (2) Lennon, not McCartney. (3) Life is too short not to order the fries. (6) Don't worry about being popular. (9) Never cheat.

MetaGeek | Home of Wi-Spy and inSSIDer Healing the Cycles that Tear Couples Apart Respect and intimacy are the foundation on which loving relationships are built. Without such safety and connection, there can be no trust; without trust, we lose the ability to be playful, spontaneous, and joyful The following are common issues in relationships that, if unaddressed, can kill love and happiness. For each relationship-ruining issue below, I explain what it is, why it is a problem, why we do it, and what we can do instead to heal and repair this issue. When people have the courage to look at these patterns, admit their own contribution, and are willing to change and put their relationships first, even the most difficult relationship problems can be healed. (1) Lack of Trust Definition Why We Do It People may get married because they see something desirable in their partner that they don’t have in themselves, rather than because of common values. Why It Is a Problem Consequences What To Do Instead (2) Blaming and Fixing Why It Is a Problem What To Do Instead Criticism and Putdowns

Aha! Parenting - Dr. Laura Markham & Parenting Your Strong-Willed Child Have a strong-willed child? You're lucky! Strong willed children can be a challenge when they’re young, but if sensitively parented, they become terrific teens and young adults. Self-motivated and inner-directed, they go after what they want and are almost impervious to peer pressure. As long as parents resist the impulse to "break their will," strong-willed kids often become leaders. What exactly is a strong-willed child? Often, strong-willed kids are prone to power-struggles with their parents. No one likes being told what to do, but strong-willed kids find it unbearable. Strong-willed kids aren't just being difficult. Morality is doing what's right, no matter what you're told. So of course you want your child to do what you say. Breaking a child's will leaves him open to the influence of others who often will not serve his highest interests. That said, strong-willed kids can be a handful -- high energy, challenging, persistent. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

UBCD for Windows » The Rules of Effortless Parenting Post written by Leo Babauta. I often get asked how I can do so much while having six kids. My short answer, and all you really need to know, is my wife Eva is awesome. I couldn’t do half what I do without her. She is the reason Zen Habits is able to exist. And so if you want parenting advice, you’d be smart to ask her. She doesn’t, however, have a blog. These are Very Important Rules that must never be broken by any Serious Parent … until, of course, you want to break them. Rules of Effortless Parenting There is really only one rule: Love Them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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