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We Need your
Ideas on How to
Limit TV and Screen
Time
The current
assessment is that
many children are
spending seven hours
a day looking at a
screen – TV,
computers, video
games, cell phones,
etc.
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If your children
complain when
you limit their
screen time, how
do you handle
that?
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What do you say
to them?
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Remember,
different
techniques work
at different
ages and with
different
temperaments.
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Parents need
lots of options
to try, so
please share
yours.
Click here and send
you answers to
bredehoft@csp.edu
We thank you, and
the many parents who
need the list will
thank you.
When we compile all
of your responses we
will make the list
available on
overindulgence.info.
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Pay for Chores?
by Jean Illsley
Clarke
“Chores are just
part of growing up
and kids shouldn’t
be paid for doing
them!” Mom Barbara
couldn’t understand
why the argument.
Papa Ken was
adamant. “They get
an allowance but
they need to learn
that money isn’t
free. They have to
earn it.” Barbara
acquiesced
reluctantly, but
only when Ken agreed
to be totally in
charge of the
payment arrangements
To read more...
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Are You
Overindulging Your
Child?
Listen to Jean
Illsley Clarke Interviewed by Toni Schutta on
Voice of America. This 60 minute radio interview is full of
insightful and very
helpful information
for parents and
anyone who cares
about children.
To Listen Click
Here.
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Mark the
Date....Hear Jean
Illsley Clarke Speak
(Admission Free)
Where: Cedar
Park Elementary
When: Monday,
March 29th 6:30-8:30
pm.
For details click
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The Problem with Overindulgence
Listen to Jean Illsley Clarke Interviewed by Aricia E. LaFrance on
Spirit-to-Spirit blog talk radio originally aired November 19, 2009. Jean
brings this information to us along with ideas to help us move past
overindulging our kids and really providing them with the abundance and
richness of life that we want to give them. A must hear prior to hitting the
stores for your Christmas shopping!
To Listen Click Here
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Less pampering will help our kids
by Jill Marchione Papangelis
VAIL, Colorado — My mother cut my meat for me. Until I was a
teenager. That should give some hint of insight into the
kind of mother I became.
I have four kids and when they were little, I actually
peeled their grapes if they didn't like the skin. I would
literally stand there at the kitchen counter, take my paring
knife to the lovely, fragile grape, and delicately tear back
the skin as if I were performing a circumcision. My kids
were home-schooled for many years, so I was also their short
order cook — I took four different orders for breakfast,
happily preparing four different feasts. ..
To read more...
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Kids today on tighter leash, but
wilder at home: Studies finds major shift in what's considered good
parenting
Parents today give their children more freedom at home but keep them
on a tighter leash in public, a new study finds. This is the reverse
of what was considered good parenting in the early half of the last
century, the researcher showed.
To read more...
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Study
9: Father Personality and Parenting Styles
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Open to all
fathers who wish to participate.
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By
participating in this 20-25 minute study,
you will help us understand the
connections between personality traits
of fathers and their parenting styles. Participants will be
informed of our research findings upon
completion of this study through our newsletter and on the
"Our Research Webpage".
Click on the link above to enter the study.
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Current
number of participants as of 2.9.10.....176
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Number of
participants needed for this
study....200
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Study
10:
Transition To and Emerging Adulthood
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Open to those who
are 16-33 years of age
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By
participating in this 30-35 minute study,
you will help us understand how childhood
overindulgence influences the transition to
adulthood. Questions of identity,
relationship with parents, and
spirituality are explored. Participants will be
informed of our research findings upon
completion of this study through our newsletter and on the
"Our Research Webpage".
Click on the link above to enter the study.
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Current
number of participants as of 2.9.10......372
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Number of
participants needed for this
study.....400
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Thanks to Research Assistant
Mary Slinger who contributed by finding stories to include in this edition of the
newsletter. |
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