Colleen Langenfeld
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Behavior Modification in Children - When Your Tween Lies
Behavior modification strategies can be specifically customized to work with tweens who develop a lying habit. If your preteen has a problem with telling falsehoods, you need to use some detective work to help her get back on track. It's important to understand that if lying has become an ongoing problem in your home, it is probably just a symptom of a deeper challenge. Do you understand what I'm saying? A tween lies for a reason. Then the habit becomes convenient. Then it
May 3, 2011
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Help For Troubled Teenagers - Teaching Better Choices
Obtaining help for troubled teenagers can be a real challenge. First of all, teens in this category often don't want help. They are quite sure they have life all figured out, thank you very much. Moms, dads and the siblings of troubled teenagers know better. They understand they are living with a powder keg which can go off at any second. And frequently does. Consequences are often touted as the way to deal with a troubled teen and rightly so. However, the real goal is to h
April 11, 2011
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Troubled Teenagers - Hanging On While Letting Go
If you are looking for help for troubled teenagers, you may be in a heartbroken state of mind. Losing a child is unbelievably painful, whether to death or to rebellion. Having your own teen reject you and all you've done for them is every bit as painful as being physically assaulted. There are lots of places you can go to get help with troubled teenagers, but what do you do to help yourself, as a parent? It really is important that you protect your own sanity so that you ca
February 1, 2011
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Angry Children - Why Worry Doesn't Work
Your son explodes. Your daughter snaps back. You react - then worry. Angry children generate some of the deepest worry in parents and understandably so. - No one likes hanging around an unpredictable powder keg. - No one likes wondering when the next outburst will occur. - No one likes the out-of-control feeling that living with an angry child can produce. And that's the point. Angry children often want control - and use their anger to keep us, as parents, off guard.
February 1, 2011
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Calorie Chart - Winning By Losing
Want to get into better physical shape? If your only focus is on losing weight, you might be setting yourself up for failure. For example, what are the habits in your life that are keeping you from getting healthier? I used a calorie chart (also known as a food log), to discover what I REALLY needed to lose. In the process I dropped twenty pounds. What I learned is that a calorie counting chart can open a window inside of us; a way to find out what's driving us -- motivatin
August 13, 2008
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I Need Help Deciding What Career To Choose Since I've Never Worked A Day In My Life
Well, that is a problem, isn't it? Thankfully, however, it's not a showstopper. Here are 3 simple steps to crunch through when you are saying "I need help deciding what career to choose." 1. Get to know yourself. Talk to friends and family members. Make a list of your interests, strengths and yes, weaknesses. If you're going to learn about yourself you need to know everything, not just what makes your mama proud. Next, go more indepth. Take at least one and more if possib
March 7, 2008
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Household Chores Checklist - Use One To Save Your Marriage
Are you tired of fighting with your spouse over who-does-what chore every night after work? Or has it gone farther than that and you have stopped talking about household stuff altogether in your marriage? This is a hot issue in today's fast-paced culture. We've added a lot to our lives over the past generation but many of our tasks remain the same. No matter how many interesting opportunities come along, the house still has to be cleaned, the dishes still must be done and t
March 6, 2008
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Grocery Shopping List -- How To Get Your Family To Use One
A grocery shopping list is one of the smartest and easiest tools you can use to lower your monthly grocery bill as well as significantly cut your household stresses. But let's face it. If you can't get your family to use the grocery list, you're still saddled with the work of pulling it together come grocery shopping time. So how DO you get your family to cooperate? Here are my top 5 ideas for motivating your family to "use the list". 1. Make it public. Don't hide your gr
March 6, 2008
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I Need Help Deciding What Career To Choose Because I Don't Want to Live With My Parents Forever!
Are you a high school senior who is staring graduation in the face and you still don't have a clue as to what you want to do with the rest of your life? Take a deep breath. This is not as hard as it seems. I am a mom who has helped her own seniors navigate the shark-infested career waters and listened to their own screams of "I need help deciding what career to choose!" Here are some steps you can take that will make you feel much, much better. 1. Talk to your parents. Es
March 5, 2008
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Household Chores Checklist - It's Not Magic!
If you're like many people, you've used tools like a household chores checklist to try and improve the organization in your home, but have been disappointed in the results. There can be many reasons for this, but one of the most common is believing in the magical powers of charts and checklists. Sad to say...but there is no magic! Chores and checklists don't have any power to change a household on their own. It's a little like lovingly displaying a hammer on the ground of a
March 5, 2008
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Closet Organizing In 5 Minutes A Day
The thought of closet organizing makes most people groan. But it doesn't need to be this way! Starting with a messy closet, you can get that closet organized and keep it organized in just 5 minutes a day. Set a timer and let's get started!nn-- Day 1. Your first 5 minutes will be devoted to staring at the contents of your closet. With pen and paper in hand, jot down what items you haven't used in years (be honest). You will be throwing or giving these items away. If you can'
January 29, 2008
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Grocery Shopping List Power -- Step 1 In Saving Grocery Money
A grocery shopping list can be the front line tool you use in saving money on your grocery budget each month. There are several more sophisticated ways to save grocery money, but none is easier or faster to implement than the lowly grocery shopping list. Interestingly, this is a tool that almost everyone knows about, yet very few people actually use it in a systematic and reliable way. For those folks who are not convinced of a grocery list's potential power in household m
January 28, 2008
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