Help Your Wife Succeed as a Mom
Children cannot raise themselves properly. This fact was illustrated again in a recent conversation with a research psychologist who visited my office. He had been studying the early childhoods of inm
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Raising Boys in the Postmodern Age
There are several major social problems that account for much of the trouble facing boys and their parents today. One of which is called postmodernism, which helps explain further how families, and especially how boys, came to be in such a mess.
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7 Ways Dads Influence Their Daughters
Fathers have an incalculable impact on their daughters. Most psychologists believe, and I am one of them, that all future romantic relationships are influenced positively or negatively by the way a girl interacts with her dad in her childhood years.
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Why Teens Are Vulnerable and Fearful
Question: Dr. Dobson, why are kids so vulnerable? How do you explain this paralyzing social fear at an age when they are notoriously gutsy? There is very little else that scares them. Teenagers drive
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How Dads Can Influence Their Kids
Develop common interests with your children while they're young, so the rebellious years that follow may be easier.
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The Hidden Target of Sibling Rivalry Is You
It’s important to understand how kids think. Their conflict often becomes a way of manipulating parents. Quarreling and fighting provide an opportunity for both children to capture adult attention. It has been written, “Some children had rather be wanted for murder than not wanted at all.” Toward this end, a pair of obnoxious kids can tacitly agree to bug their parents until they get a response—even if it is an angry reaction.
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Help Your Daughter Build Self-Confidence
When your daughter goes to school tomorrow, tell her to watch the students who are coming and going. Some will be smiling and laughing and talking and carrying their books and playing baseball. Unless
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Healthy Habits for Your Children, Part 2
Your child's health involves far more than a routine checkup.
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Healthy Habits for Your Children, Part 1
On today’s edition of Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson welcomes physician Dr. Walt Larimore to discuss his book, The Highly Healthy Child.
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How to Discipline Without Breaking a Child’s Spirit
The goal in dealing with a difficult child is to shape the will without breaking the spirit. Hitting both targets is sometimes easier said than done. Perhaps it will help to share a letter from a mother who was having a terrible time with her son Jake. Her description of this child and her responses to him illustrate precisely how not to deal with a difficult boy or girl.
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Dr. James Dobson
Joe Waresak
Dr. Del Tackett
