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Happy people all share happy habits. If you are looking to enlarge your general happiness you may want to consider adopting these practices in your everyday life. 1. Get involved in something ...

Happy People Share Happy Habits!

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The secret to a healthy life is to be happy. And to be happy, we have to make happiness our ultimate goal at all times. Being happy in life makes life look and seem much more fun. Here are some ...

Characteristics of a Happy Person

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If you have more than one child, you may have children who will hopefully be friends forever. Relationships between siblings can be truly special and supportive. They may also be difficult at ...

Tips on How to Achieve Peace Between Siblings

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Here are four simple ways to teach kids how to behave: Tip Number 1: Make a list Sit down with your child and make a list of some behaviors that people who are polite show to others: Say ...

Manners Really Matter for Kids!

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Mark Twain once said to be satisfied with what one has--that is wealth. If you live with free choice and have the financial means to cover necessities, consider yourself very lucky. Most of the ...

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

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If you want to maintain a close relationship with your children and improve their behavior, the following suggestions may be very important for you to consider. With younger children, the power of ...

What is Quality Time with your Child?

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No one can make you feel guilty unless you let them. But a lot of us feel guilty a lot of the time. Modern moms feel guilty if we are not at school every day for pickup or do not attend all of the ...

Put Your Guilt Away

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Nice friendships are the ones that support and accept your authentic, real self. Good friends are the ones you really feel comfortable being yourself around. Your experiences with nice friends can ...

Cultivate Nice Friendships

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With all of the pressures of modern motherhood and the challenges to living a peaceful, balanced life, it is easy to neglect yourself. However, you truly cannot take care of others if you are not ...

Take Great Care of Yourself!

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A common mistake that we moms make in our culture is to jump mindlessly from one activity to another. The problem is that we start to feel like we are on autopilot. We become detached from knowing ...

Make Time For Yourself

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Eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s emotional and physical health. Eating disorders are very complex real and devastating conditions that ...

Health Consequences of Eating Disorders

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10 Things Parents Can Do to Help Their Children Have Healthy Eating Habits 1. Make an effort to maintain positive attitudes and healthy behaviors. Children learn from the things that we say ...

Tips for Parents to Help Their Children Eat Healthier

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Boundaries are oftentimes distorted by addiction. Therefore, setting healthy boundaries is a real need for any family beginning a recovery path, as well as the person who is in recovery. For ...

Setting Healthy Boundaries During Recovery from an Addiction

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Each of us grew up in a family whose particular situation or history affected our relationship to food. Some of our parents lived through the food scarcities of the depression, World War II or ...

Parents Influencing Their Child’s Food Intake, and How it Impacts the Child--Editorial

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Anxiety is a general term for many disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension and worrying. These disorders affect how we feel and behave, and they can manifest real physical symptoms. ...

What is Anxiety and How Can You Cope with it?

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Self-esteem is a judgment about our personal value--the degree to which we believe ourselves to be worthwhile. It has a major impact on our feelings and behavior. Our self-concept is what we ...

Self-Esteem and How to Improve it

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The concept of not pushing a strict diet might be surprising. For example, if you can't imagine getting up in the morning and cooking eggs or having a yogurt, or all you can think about is having ...

What is Healthy Eating?

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The following 50 suggestions are things we can try to help cope with, and hopefully reduce, our stress levels: 1. Prepare for the morning the night before 2. Avoid tight fitting ...

50 Ways to Cope with Stress

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Some people have issues with overspending, especially during the holiday season. No matter if your overspending is seasonal or a year round problem, it is important to figure out the driving ...

Healing Your Overspending Habit

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Stress and anxiety have a role in our lives. They push us to make necessary changes, they make us aware when we are in danger, and motivate us to take action and free ourselves from danger. Danger ...

How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety

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Anyone who has been through it knows that going through a rehabilitation program to conquer an addiction can be very challenging mentally, physically and emotionally. Because the focus is on ...

Are You Going Through Rehab? Don't Forget to Rehab Your Diet Too

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Heart and blood vessel diseases are our nation’s number one killer. You can do a lot to get your heart in shape. Healthy changes will help you feel and look better. You will find that once you ...

How Can I Make My Lifestyle Healthier?

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Healthy habits can protect you from the destructive effects of stress. The following are positive habits that can be very helpful to develop. 1. Talk with family and friends. It is always ...

Fight Stress with Healthy Habits

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Stress is your body’s response to change. It is very individual. A situation that one person may find stressful may not disturb someone else. For example, one person may become tense when having ...

Fight Stress with Healthy Habits

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Sometimes parents who are going through a divorce may need help identifying signs of stress in their children, especially young children. These are some of the typical experiences and signs of ...

Signs of Stress in Children of Divorce

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Probably one of the most frequently asked questions about family life over the last two decades has been, “Is divorce harmful to children?” Although this is a very important question, it is also ...

Typical Reactions of Children to Divorce

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The impact of a divorce on a family can often be severe. When a couple is going through a marital break-up, the children are often the ones most affected, as well as the ones given the least ...

Minimizing the Effects of Divorce on Children

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A divorce is a difficult time for everyone - friends and family included. Unfortunately, many people do not realize the affect a divorce can have on family and friends until it is too late. How ...

Telling Your Family and Friends About Your Divorce

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The divorce rate in the United States is the highest in the world. Fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce. Sixty- seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce. With divorce comes a ...

Emotional Aspects of Divorce

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As your relationship with a new person in your life has developed, you have found your old friends falling away, while family members have commented on how you do not seem like yourself. Are ...

How to Recognize a Manipulative or Controlling Relationship

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Stranger danger describes the perceived danger to children presented by strangers. Unfortunately, the world is a scary place and there are people out there who prey on children. It is crucial that ...

Stranger Danger

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Does your child have a hard time playing games fairly? Does he cry, whine or stop the game when he is losing? As a general rule, no kid likes to lose. A certain amount of crying and sulking is ...

What To Do if Your Child is a Sore Loser

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Positive communication is crucial if you are going to have smooth transactions with other people. This is true, whether those people are coworkers, doctors, sales clerks, or friends. Out of all ...

Communicating With Your Partner

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Fair Fighting -Do be clear about what you want. -Do stick to the issues at hand. -Do look at both sides of the story. -Do listen more than you talk. -Do apologize ...

Quick Tips For Making Marriage Work

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Parents, if you had a crystal ball and could see your child’s future, what would you want to see? You would want to see your child, healthy, happy, productive, and fulfilled, wouldn’t ...

Tips to Raising a Drug-Free Child

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With the struggles of today’s economy and the life expectancy of the population increasing, there are huge demands surfacing for caregivers of the elderly. A popular term for senior caregiving is ...

The Sandwich Generation

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Cyberbullying is the practice of posting or sending harmful images or text via the internet or other technical communication tools, such as cell phones, e-mail, text messages, chat rooms, social ...

Prevention of Cyberbullying

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What is the parent's role in cyberbullying? The parent’s role plays a crucial part in their child’s safety. Parents should be the one trusted place that children can go when things go wrong. ...

Intervention Strategies For Cyberbullying

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There are two main principle types of bullying: physical and psychological. Both may be carried out in overt or covert ways and may involve indiscriminate or discriminatory forms of ...

More on Cyberbullying

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What is cyberbullying? Adolescents have been bullying each other for many generations. The latest generation has been able to utilize technology to expand the level and harm associated with ...

Cyberbullying

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Three Psychological Effects on Women During Menopause: Menopause is not only a physical factor but also impacts the mind. The cessation of menses sends some signals and concern to most women, ...

The Unique Woman: Psychological Effects and Ways to Keep the Body Healthy

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One stereotyped view of women portrays us all as creatures at the mercy of our hormones. Our hormones have a huge influence on our lives, but there is no reason why we have to be slaves to them. ...

The Unique Woman: Helpful Facts about Changes the Woman's Body Goes Through

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The following are some tips that will help you during a relocation period due to a divorce: Budget With Your Keepsakes In Mind Try to remember to not make these the last items packed since ...

A New You: Helpful Hints For Relocating After a Divorce and Making New Friends

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Moving on after a divorce is crucial to your well-being. It can also be very difficult to face, especially if you were married for many years. When the bulk of your life was tied to and perhaps ...

A New You: Life After Divorce