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	<title>Raising Small Souls &#187; Parenting Teenagers</title>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Wants Versus Needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversial Parenting Styles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Art of Letting Go, Pt 2 by:  Alan W. Carson ACPI® Coach for Parents In my first article on letting go, we focused on the importance of parents requiring that their kids accept an increasing amount of responsibility as they mature.  The goal is that our children can largely succeed on their own by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Parenting Techniques</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7 Ways to Start Parenting More Effectively Some parents are afraid that their child won&#8217;t change no matter what they do. Many find themselves reacting automatically when their child behaves inappropriately; as soon as he acts out, they’re yelling and screaming, or getting sucked into power struggles. And even when parents try something new, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Talk To Teens About Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Teen Culture and Sexuality by:  © Alan Carson ACPI© Coach for Parents For twenty-one years I taught a sexuality unit as part of my eleventh grade health education course.  At the beginning of my career it was a risk to teach anything other than the biological aspects of sexuality, and my superintendent told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Deal With Teens Lying</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/how-to-deal-with-teens-lying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Values & Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by:  © Alan Carson ACPI© Coach for Parents There are two major issues to be considered with respect to teens lying to their parents: the parent-child relationship and the extent to which the teen sees his parents as authority figures. First, we&#8217;ll examine the relationship.  As discussed in my most recent article on the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Behavior Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parenting Toddlers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, several responses to the question, “What is your most pressing parenting problem?” turned up in my inbox. Here are some of the replies: Getting my 11-year-old motivated to do more and to avoid disagreements. My 9-year-old daughter is very disrespectful and I want to address that. I not only want to be a better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Teenagers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parenting Teens by:  © Alan Carson ACPI© Coach for Parents Having taught, coached, counseled teens for a career, and being the father of a seventeen-year old, I think I know teens.  In my opinion, here is how we need to parent teenagers effectively: 1) Teens absolutely need to be trusted. It is beyond wanting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peer Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How BIG Is Peer Pressure?by:Alan Carson, ACPI© Coach for Parents Until recently, the only time in my life I went gambling was with my buddies during my first year of teaching.  I was asked to play &#8220;penny poker,&#8221; and was told to bring a bunch of pennies, nickels and dimes.  Even though it was thirty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen Drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/teen-drinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/teen-drinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask The Experts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: My 13-year-old son has come home from friend&#8217;s houses with alcohol on his breath a few too many times. My husband says that a drink here and there is nothing to worry about. My husband is not an alcoholic; he hardly ever gets drunk although he has a glass or two of wine to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebellious Teen</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/rebellious-teen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: My 15-year-old daughter&#8217;s grades have dropped recently. She has pushed the limits with my patience. She recently gauged her ears as well. I was mortified; she is such a nice, smart, beautiful young girl I am not sure why she would do this especially without asking for my advice or my permission. I made [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/growing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: I have a son who is in 6th grade. Throughout all his elementary years, we were always so very close. If there was a function at school he wanted me to volunteer. If there was a class trip, he would hope that I would be the chaperone. If he didn&#8217;t have a friend over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADHD and Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/adhd-and-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversial Parenting Styles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions: There is a fair amount of information available to parents of young children with ADD/ADHD and/or defiant behavior, but what about these same parents of teen children, specifically teens between the ages of 13-17? Behaviors and habits are more engrained and the traditional approaches that may work or are more appropriate to use with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disconnected from 12-year-old-daughter</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/disconnected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/disconnected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Question: For some reason, I feel like I have a chronic &#8220;dis-connect&#8221; from my eldest daughter, 12. I worry I&#8217;m failing her as a parent and really need help and advice. I know that we have a pattern of my asking her to do something, her not listening, then I get frustrated and bark orders [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Happiness Link</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/the-happiness-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest fallacies of our time is the mistaken social rule that “happiness means being comfortable”. When was the last time that you saw modern-day movie where the hero or heroine was happy to be in an impoverished and uncomfortable state? Advertisers play upon this unspoken rule by convincing us that pain need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger for Touch</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/hunger-for-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/hunger-for-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most effective way to determine the value of an idea is to determine the negative effects that occur when that concept is missing. Let’s examine the power of human touch regarding children and the accompanying effects that can result from insufficient physical contact. Recent research in neuroscience has shown that loving touch is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are More Than Beautiful!</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Words of Inspiration!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blog Book Tour We Are More Than Beautiful 46 Real Teens Speak Out about Beauty, Happiness, Love and Life by Woody Winfree The new book, We Are More Than Beautiful for teen girls is the latest addition to the work of the I Am Beautiful Project, an initiative committed to producing creative and educational works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Kids Organized:  Tips that Work!</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/getting-kids-organized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/getting-kids-organized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disciplining Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Organize Their Possessions: Five Tips for Parents If you’d look under the children’s beds or in the playrooms of most houses, you might think there is no way to get your kids organized. Stuffed animals have a way of multiplying and covering beds and dressers, game and jigsaw puzzle pieces somehow never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming the Lost Art of Listening</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[{Order reprint rights for this article here &#8211; #1044} My good friend Sarah recently repeated this conversation to us, and we laughed until we could laugh no longer. &#8220;Hi, how are you?&#8221; the next-door-neighbor asked Sarah. &#8220;I&#8217;m dying, thank you,&#8221; Sarah replied in an even tone of voice. &#8220;Great!&#8221; the neighbor responded heartily. &#8220;Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Want To Scream!</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/i-want-to-scream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/i-want-to-scream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ellen, Sometimes I get so mad at my kids! Yesterday, we were getting ready for a family reunion that our family will be hosting next week. My thirteen-year-old daughter suggested that we create place cards and matching centerpieces for the party. Although this will be an informal affair held in our backyard and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch Hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/touch-hunger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/touch-hunger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 15:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most effective way to determine the value of an idea is to determine the negative effects that occur when that concept is missing. Let&#8217;s examine the power of human touch regarding children and the accompanying effects that can result from insufficient physical contact. Recent research in neuroscience has shown that loving touch is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Buddy and Me</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/my-buddy-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/my-buddy-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 15:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it all began in the latter half of the 20th century when a new trend in parenting spread amongst those who were fairly new in their “careers” as parents. Establishing one’s role as a parental figure in the early stages of a child’s development is no easy task and the additional weight of societal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Parents Snoop on Their Kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Controversial Parenting Styles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting Teenagers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Parents Snoop on Their Kids? By: Mona R. Spiegel, Ph.D. The Question Our primary job as parents is to keep our children safe. Are we permitted to “snoop” on them in order to protect them from harm? Should we read their diaries, listen to their phone conversations, and check their email log? The Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Through the Tough Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting Teenagers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve spent an enjoyable afternoon on a pleasant trip with your son or daughter who is going through a challenging period. (See www.raisingsmallsouls.com/tough-times for more information about creating a pleasant outing during a stressful time.) What else can you do now to strengthen the parent/child bond and help him/her overcome the present problems? Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for the Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen C. Braun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting Teenagers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been getting more requests for advice geared towards teenagers. This article is most applicable to teens, yet can be tailored to any age child. What do you do when really tough challenges arise with your child? What if your son is hanging out with a shady group of friends or your daughter is [...]]]></description>
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