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Parenting: Be selfish

Helicopter parenting - not good
[Guest Author] This article on Helicopter Parenting is the seventeenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. I’ve lost track of him but found his URL has been “camped on” by someone trying to gouge somebody, using its popularity my friend created. I’ve found most of his articles (I think) and will keep them here for safe keeping until he wants them back (or this blog suffers a similar fate).

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Parenting: The Two Greatest Barriers To Parenting – Money and Education

barriers to parenting effectively
[Guest Author] This article on the barriers to parenting effectively is the sixteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants it back.

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Most Important Parenting, When It Appears The Least

Family during "parenting" time
[Guest Author] This article on the “Most Important Parenting” is the fourth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Choose Your Battles With Teens Over Hair and Clothing

Mother teaching daughter to 'fly'
[Guest Author] I’ve mentioned before how I stumbled upon another “blogger” on the internet and bonded instantly, like he was a “brother from another mother” based on the fact that we had been writing similar pediatric articles completely independently for years. His URL is up for sale now, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
 
This one: “Choose your battles” is “survival parenting 101.” It merely means to save your energy, and credibility, for the “big stuff” (and there is enough of that to be going on with). Read more →

Teaching Teens About Healthy Relationships

Pediatrician counseling teen about life skills

As I’ve been clearing out my “to do” file of articles, we’ve had a series of posts about parenting teens through puberty and preparing for the skill-set and tasks of adulthood. Pediatricians are in a position to have many opportunities to talk to teens about life issues and I’m thinking that perhaps you’d like to see some “bullet points” of common issues we address.
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School PHOBIA

School phobia

OK, if you’ve been a reader of this column in the past, I know you can do it; so put on your white coat, get your stethoscope and let me watch how you “see” this next patient.

Picking up the chart you see that he is a new patient to you, named Ryan.   He is eight years old, and he lives with his mother who has been divorced for four years.

The nurse has taken his height, weight, and temperature (which were all normal) and has written on the chart “Fevers for six months!”

As you enter the room, you find him to be a red-headed youngster sitting curled up (more…)

Instilling Concern and Respect For Others In Children and Teens

Teen respect for others

[This is really not just a Christmas article!   It’s an article which makes most of us very contemplative.   It is about an exceedingly important part of parenting – which happened to be written at Christmas.]

A lot of articles this time of year (Christmas) begin with the phrase (more…)

Children’s Ability To Read

boy reading

Not too long ago I took some fishing “Rods” (a couple of my neighborhood fishing buddies aged 14 and 18) to a special trout river in Arizona.

The automobile trip was long and hot, and my nerves were raw from the rock music blasting from (more…)

Healing Hugs – Sometimes the Best Medicine

Hug after a game

I definitely feel that the best gifts in parenting are the small things; for example, "healing hugs."

Some time ago in my medical school training, I was assigned to a hospital emergency room.  A child about thirteen was brought in by ambulance (more…)

Feeling – A Special Sense

nature walk

Recently a young patient brought me a special gift.   Although he was ill, he had taken the time to gather one of the first autumn leaves which had begun to turn color.

He explained to me that he had picked the leaf recently on a “five senses” walk he had taken with his teacher.
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Parenting: Attitudes – Unintentional Learning

With all deference to teachers, I am becoming more impressed that children do most of their learning when not actively being “taught”.  At least in things that “count.”

The aspects of life, which are critically important to a child’s personality, are his attitudes, about: self, others, systems, things, and life in general.

Most parents know intuitively what types of things instill wrong attitudes in children and we may have even caught ourselves or neighbors saying such things as:
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Parenting Children and Teens to Be Achievers

achievement

It probably sounds like a moot point to ask which would be a better gift, even for Christmas, success in school or a train set. The answer should be obvious.

But, as no small part of my practice is with children who are dealing with school difficulties, I have met some children who (more…)