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Unison Parenting Blog: Question-Based Sex Education
Parents can be shy or evasive about sex education for their child. But kids are curious. Use their curiosity to have short talks about sex.
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Feb 6, 20252 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Your Child's Love Tank
Don't let your child run on empty. Frequently replenish your supply of love so that they clearly understand your love and encouragement.
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Jan 30, 20252 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Most Damaging Parenting Style
Of the four parenting styles, one stands out as the most ominous, causing the most long-term damage to children.
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Jan 16, 20252 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Allowing Your Child to Choose
Allowing your child to gradually, incrementally make their own choices pays off when they become of age.
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Jan 9, 20252 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: How Parenting Grows Your Faith
Life experiences test and grow our faith. Few experiences accomplish this like parenting.
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Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Agreeing on What's for Dinner
Parents need to be in unison on the big stuff. They also need be in unison on the smaller stuff, like what food to eat.
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Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Melding Family Traditions
What I'm about to describe is easy to read but can be very hard to implement. When you become a couple, you become a new family. Each of...
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Nov 28, 20242 min read
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"Diaper Days" Guest Blog: Have You Tried the Football Carry for Your Baby?
Ginny Cruz addresses the early years of childhood as a guest blogger, posting on a monthly basis. Ginny Cruz, MPA, PT, is a pediatric...
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Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Further Insights: What do You REALLY do with the Cookie?
In my Thursday Unison Parenting blog, I brought up an advice columnist's suggestion that an annoyed restaurant guest should send a cookie...
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Nov 16, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: What to Do with the Cookie
This is the first of a two-part series (the other is in Further Insights) on making parenting decisions in front of your children.
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Amoeba
Children don't mature in all facets of life in perfect proportions, like a gingerbread person. They might be better described as amoebas.
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Nov 7, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Gingerbread Person
Cecil uses the image of a gingerbread person to identify five areas of development for your child.
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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Further Insights: Behind the Scenes with the Collaborative Parenting Chapter
Collaborative Parenting was the most difficult Unison Parenting chapter to write in trying to simplify complex techniques.
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Oct 25, 20241 min read
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"Diaper Days" Guest Blog: What to Do If Your Baby Spits Up during Tummy Time
In guest blogger Ginny Cruz' initial post, she suggests three possible actions if your baby spits up during tummy time.
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Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Joys of Boys
Cecil gives a humorous take on what it's like to parent boys.
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Further Insights: What is the Right Level of Grade Pressure?
Parents can put too much pressure on children and on teachers to raise grades. Here are ideas for how to handle academics better.
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Oct 12, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Peers - Pressure or Pleasure?
Peer pressure can be negative or positive. This post offers a model to help your child deal with the negative and affirm the positive.
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Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Entrusting Your Younger Child to Other Parents
In my last post, I talked about entrusting your teen to other parents. Now I'll return to the younger days. It is practically inevitable...
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Oct 3, 20242 min read
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Further Insights: Parenting Labels
Cecil defines four parenting styles from his book and compares these to parenting labels created by other authors and influencers.
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Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Should You Trust Other Parents with Your Teen?
Attentive parenting requires paying attention to where your teen is going, including friends' houses.
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Sep 26, 20242 min read
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