Jean Tracy
MSS
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Parenting Expert
Jean Tracy Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Parenting, Character Building, Empowering Parents, Marrriage Relationships
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Business owner
- Affiliation
- Connections, Toastmasters, Bookies
Jean Tracy, MSS is an authority on parenting, character building, marriage, and on creating caring, close-knit families. For years she worked as a teacher, a probation officer, and then as a counselor with parents and children as they struggled with their interwoven challenges.
During her career, Jean developed character building concepts that continue to benefit parents and children through her line of parent/child discussion books, practical parenting tools, and marriage ebook. Jean's website, www.KidsDiscuss.com, displays her books and details each parenting resource.
Jean graduated from Seattle University with a degree in Education and taught elementary school in Califo ia, Washington, and Connecticut. She earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Bryn Mawr College. An award-winning Distinguished Toastmaster, she authors parent/child discussion books, parenting resources, a marriage ebook, and speaks professionally.
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Self Esteem Activity - Building Character with Bedtime Stories
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Self_Esteem_Activity_Building_Character_with_Bedtime_Stories.html
Self-Esteem -3 Parenting Tips for Increasing School Performance
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Self-Esteem_-_3_Parenting_Tips_for_Increasing_School_Performance.html
Self Esteem ~ Chores for Pre-School Kids
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Self-Esteem_Chores_for_Pre-School_Kids.html
How Self Esteem Affirmations Build Character in Your Kids
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/How_Self-Esteem_Affirmations_Build_Character_in_Your_Kids.html
Building Character in Kids ~ One Self Esteem Mistake and Three Solutions
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Building_Character_in_Kids_One_Self-Esteem_Mistake_and_Three_Solutions.html
Concentration ~ 3 Parenting Tips for Increasing Attention Span in Kids
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Concentration_3_Parenting_Tips_for_Increasing_Attention_Span_in_Kids.html
Build Self Esteem with These 10 Chores for Your Children
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Build_Self-Esteem_with_These_10_Chores_for_Your_Children.html
Goal Setting for Kids ~ 3 Parenting Tips for Building a Champion Character
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Goal-Setting_for_Kids_3_Parenting_Tips_fouilding_a_Champion_Character.html
Goal Setting for Kids - 1 Parenting Tip and 1 Strategy that Help Kids Accomplish Their Goals
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Goal_Setting_for_Kids_1_Parenting_Tip_and_1_Strategy_That_Help_Kids_Accomplish_Their_Goals.html
Character Building - 5 Ways to Help Your Child Tell the Truth
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Character_Building_-_5_Ways_to_Help_Your_Child_Tell_the_Truth.html
3 Parenting Tips ~ Using "Love Talk" With Your Partner
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/3_Parenting_Tips_Using_Love_Talk_with_Your_Partner.html
3 Parenting Tips For Parents As Lovers
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/3_Parenting_Tips_for_Parents_as_Lovers.html
Parenting Tips ~ When Your Kids Are On Vacation and You're Not
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Parenting_Tips_When_Your_Kids_Are_on_Vacation_and_You_re_Not.html
Parents in Love ~ 5 Reason for Handling Mistakes with Love
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Parents_in_Love_5_Reasons_for_Handling_Mistakes_with_Love.html
3 No Cost Dating Ideas for Parents
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/3_No-Cost_Dating_Ideas_For_Parents.html
Parents, Teach These 3 Social Skills and Stop Worrying!
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Parents_Teach_These_3_Social_Skills_And_Stop_Worrying.html
Attention Parents! This Gratitude Formula Builds Character in Kids
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Attention_Parents_This_Gratitude_Formula_Builds_Character_in_Kids.html
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Jean Tracy Books
Character Building on Backtalk Street
http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/parent_resource_center.asp?pr_id=kd001
Character Building with the Family Meeting Diary
http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/parent_resource_center.asp?pr_id=kd006
Parents in Love - 121 Dating Ideas
http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/parents_in_love.asp
Discipline Tips for Parents - 41 Specific Solutions
http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/discipline-tips-for-parents.asp
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3 Parenting Solutions for Beating Stress Not Kids
Parents are your kids stressful? Do they leave messes, fight with each other, or sass you? Try these 3 parenting solutions when your kids tempt you to explode. First Stressful Problem: When Joey leaves another mess from his daily snacks, don't pull your hair out. Don't blow up. Lengthen your fuse. Keep your yelling to yourself. Be as rational as you can be. The Magic Question to Ask Yourself:rn‘What can I do to teach Joey a lesson and give myself some time to unwind?' Your Action Step:r
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Character Building - 5 Ways To Help Your Child Tell The Truth
Is your child telling fibs? Would you like 5 parenting tips to help her tell the truth? Inside you'll find five suggestions you can use. Quote on Truthfulness: "What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things." - Margaret Meade Parents, if you have a ...
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Families and Fights – 5 Tips for Staying Rational
Is your family life peppered with upset? Are you falling into the tyrant trap? Look inside to find out how to stop finger-pointing and become a rational loving person. Successful marriages “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” Leo Buscaglia. Tyrants smother their spouse ...
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3 Parenting Tips for Building Character in Your Angry Kids
If 3 character tips could stop your angry child from exploding, would you use them? If so, look inside for 3 parenting ideas that are sure to help. Temper can be a volcano blazing out of control. It blows its top without thinking. It demands what it wants or else. There’s no room for reason. If your child’s a volcano, you’ve got work to do. When your child is calm, take time to discuss anger, its cause, and its solution. I know you’re wondering how. Before I tell you, grab a piece of paper and ask your child to draw a volcano at the top.
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5 Parenting Tips For Young Kids In Trouble
Is your sweet child getting in trouble? Do you worry about the kids he plays with? Inside you’ll find 5 parenting tips for helping kids stay out of trouble. Childhood Wisdom and Big Trouble: A 10-year-old boy named Joe and his 8-year-old brother, Danny, fought like cats and dogs. The older boy ...
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Building Character ~ 3 Parenting Tips For Handling Your Bossy Child
Does your older child boss your younger child? Are you worried about your younger child’s self-esteem? Inside you’ll find 3 parenting tips for building character and handling bossiness. Childhood Humor: George bossed and teased his little sister every day. She screamed. She cried. She ...
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5 Rules for Teaching Your Kids Respect
If you've been searching for a truly powerful way to get your kids to communicate with respect, now is the time to make it happen. Let the family meeting rules guide you. Look inside to find out how. Let’s pretend your kids, Jack and Jessica, bring up the problem Jack’s having with the bully next door. As a family, gather around the table to discuss it .The family meeting rules will help you. First Rule - Listen with Respect: You and your children must listen without interrupting.
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3 Parenting Tips – Helping Your Child Build Character and Overcome Pouting
Would you like some parenting tips when your child pouts with lips turned down and drooping eyes? Do you feel stressed, nervous, or angry with the pouting? Look inside for 3 ways to understand, help, and build character in your pouting child. I know how difficult it can be when your child pouts. Pouting affects your feelings and stresses you on the inside. ‘Oh, no,’ you think. ‘I must make Joey happy.’ If the pouting continues, your mind, like a rubber band, can snap with anger. ‘He shouldn’t pout. He has no reason.’ You yell, “Joey, wipe that look off your face right now!
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Character Building ~ 3 Parenting Tips for Handling Peer Pressure
Do your kids long to fit in with the crowd? Are you worried they’ll do the wrong thing just to be liked? Inside you’ll find 3 parenting tips to help them make good choices and become people of character. Peer Pressure Quote: “There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure.” – ...
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Character Tips for Parents ~ How to Turn Selfish Kids into Caring Kids
Selfishness, like a small mirror, only sees the self. How can you help your child go beyond the mirror and see others? Parents of kids with great character know how. They ask 2 important questions. The questions boost moral reasoning. Before I tell you what they are, think back to a time when your child was selfish. Did you tell him why he ate all the candy, took his little brother's toy, or whined when he wasn't first?
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Motivation: 10 No-Cost Rewards for Parents to Use that Motivate Kids
Parents, are you being blackmailed? You are if you motivate your kids with money. Every time you want your kids to do their best or you ask for help, they want money. As your kids grow older, they'll want even more money. Giving money isn't the way to build great character. I know you don't want your kids to be materialistic or only do things if they get paid. Wouldn't it be nice if they did things for love?
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5 Parenting Tips ~ When Bullies Call Your Child Names
Do bullies call your child names? Does he come home crying? Look inside to find out how you can strengthen his character and deal with bullies. Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. – Anna Julia Cooper Let’s say your Weston, ...
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KidsDiscuss.com
SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to information about Self Improvement, Personal Growth and Self Help on the Internet. It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other Web Sites on the World Wide Web.
January 30, 2019
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KidsDiscuss.com
KidsDiscuss.com offers practical parenting tools that develop character, respect, and caring in your children and transforms your home into a center of love.
December 13, 2010
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Kids Discuss
KidsDiscuss.com offers parents a Free Parenting Newsletter, Free Parenting Tips, and Free Articles helping parents become experts in raising kids with love and character.
December 4, 2007
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Kids Discuss
KidsDiscuss.com provides you with a Free Parenting Newsletter, Free Parenting Tips, and Free Parenting Articles. You'll also find Parenting Resources with the counseling secrets of an experienced professional child/family therapist.
September 23, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jean Tracy
- The best parents build character in young minds and loving hearts.
- Free will and reason are the backbone of character.
- Developing character starts with getting your kids to talk.
- Children crave what parents can give - attention, appreciation, and affection.
- Family meetings build strong, loving families with solid ties.
Contacting Jean Tracy
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Jean's website: http://www.KidsDiscuss.com
Sign up for Jean's Free Parenting Newsletter and receive 80 fun activities to share with your kids at: http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/contact.asp
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Jean's email: Jea Tracy@KidsDiscuss.com
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How to get started
Jean Tracy, MSS offers parents effective strategies, tips, and skills to help them create the family they dreamed of before they had children. Jean shares her parenting expertise worldwide through her newsletters, articles, blogs, and products.
If you are looking for an easy way to get started, go to www.KidsDiscuss.com and:
- Sign up for her Free Parenting Newsletter
- At the top of the page pick up her Free Parenting Tips - 21 of the Best
- Browse through her Free Parenting Articles
- Examine her professionally crafted Parenting Books, Parenting Kits
- Marriage ebook - Parents in Love ~ 120 Dating Ideas.
- Free Marriage e-Course: Parents, Stop Fighting! Save Your Marriage Now!
Other highlights
Jean's professionally crafted Parenting Resource Kits, from over 20 years counseling families, at http://www.kidsdiscuss.com/parent_resource_center.asp includes:
- The Social Skills Kit for Kids which teaches children to be kind, friendly, and confident. It includes 50 social skills, inspired by the work of Dale Carnegie, for kids to role play with parents and practice on classmates.
- The Dilemma Discussion Kit helps kids discuss their thoughts and feelings about moral dilemmas with parents. It offers 52 dilemmas for parents to guide and bond with their children.
- The Chore Chart Kit offers parents age-appropriate chores to teach their children responsibilities. It prepares children for a productive future. 80 rewards are included and offer fun times between parents and kids.
- The Problem Solver Kit helps siblings solve their own conflicts with brothers and sisters. This method takes parents out of the role of judge and jury.
- The Thought-Stopping Kit teaches children to stop negative thoughts, become positive thinkers, and create a positive attitude for life.
- The Goal Setting Kit promotes success in children now and in the future with special goal setting techniques.
- The Parenting Skills Kit offers parents a special method for increasing parenting skills with confidence.
- The Character Building Kit teaches and rewards children for their positive moral behaviors. A special character building chart with rewards is included.
- The Parent Affirmation Kit builds self-esteem in children with loving words and notes. 75 affirmations help parents give the specific praise that children crave.
- Free Marriage e-Course Parents, Stop Fighting! Save Your Marriage Now!
- Free Discipline e-Course The Discipline Attitude - Your Key to Parenting