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Lazy Dad
Several young children and finding yourself wishing your husband would help out a little more? Armin Brott, known to readers as Mr. Dad, offers some tips to get your husband to step up to the plate to ensure your children are taken care of.

The Ten Commandments for New Fathers
It's easy to pick a new father out of a crowd. He's the one shambling aimlessly down the sidewalk with a glazed, deer-in-the-headlights look on his face. Parenthood can indeed be an overwhelming experience for many new dads. What they need to find their way through the postpartum wilderness is a little sage advice and guidance from guys who came before them. Here's the code of responsibility that the crème of the new father crop has been passing down to men of younger generations since well before Charlton Heston and Moses himself walked the earth.

Preparing Your Child for Today's World: 10 Tips for Teaching and Protecting Your Child
How do you prepare your to child to navigate safely and confidently in the world, ready to deal with situations and people he or she may encounter? Here are 10 parenting tips to help make the journey a little more effective.

When Parents Disagree on Discipline
When parents have different disciplining styles, there's bound to be dissension and arguing. Try to get on the same page. That's the best way to stop arguing with your kids as witnesses. Here are some helpful strategies.

The Best Insurance for Children is Love
Love is not only a wonderful gift to give your children, but it's also good insurance. Here's why: showing your love helps keep them safe. It tells them they are worthy of love and respect and shapes their expectations of how others should treat them. Here are some examples of how to express your love and appreciation anytime, anywhere.

Visiting Children and Your Dog
Kids are exciting and exhausting. All parents know that, but we often forget that our dogs see kids that way too. Dogs become accustomed to the antics of "their" kids, but other children can be very hard for them to read. The most important thing we as parents can do is learn a little about dogs and their body language. Once we understand what a dog is telling us, we'll be much better equipped to help our dogs and kids understand one another.

Creating a Balanced Inner World for Our Children
Think of the power you have as a parent over your children. As parents, we want our children to grow up with an internal family of parts that do not control and hinder their lives for too many years. We want all parts of them to be harmonious, to feel joy, love, and peace within the self. Once all parts are happy and content, there is no need to act out or to control. How can we as parents help or children to become balanced, healthy adults? Here are seven strategies to help you in your journey.

Six Tips for Less-Stress Parenting
Nobody ever said parenting was easy, but here are six practical tips for how to worry less and enjoy parenting more.

Are You Preparing Your Child for Financial Trouble?
In the world we live, no one grows up to become financially knowledgeable without guidance along the way. Financial counseling must come from the parent. If you're not indoctrinating your offspring into sound habits of thrift and discernment, there is a likelihood they will blunder through life with no sense of monetary values. Author Al Jacobs offers suggestions on how to instill a sense of fiscal responsibility in your children.

Three Steps for Meeting a Dog: Instructions for Parents
It is very important to teach kids how to interact with dogs they are interested in. Childish excitement could be interpreted as a threat by inexperienced dogs. By teaching children and dogs how to interact with one another, we laying the groundwork for happy, healthy relationships between them. Take time to help your child practice meeting a variety of dogs.