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Characteristics
of healthy families
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Members
trust and value each other |
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Open
expression of feelings |
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Closeness |
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Pleasant
atmosphere, warm, affectionate, optimistic |
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Members
treat each other with dignity and respect |
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Sensitive
and supportive of individual feelings |
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Kids
are kids and parents are parents |
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Growth
and learning are encouraged |
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Conflicts
are resolved peacefully |
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Privacy
is respected |
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Open
to looking at issues |
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Communication
is clear |
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Step-parenting
Teens
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Discipline is a teaching tool to help the adolescent learn a lesson that
we feel is important
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Expect conflict
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Do not give disciplinary responsibility to the step-parent
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Try to understand why something happened through the eyes of the
adolescent
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The biological and the step-parent should come to an agreement before
rules are presented to the adolescent
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Honestly tell your teenager when you were wrong and why you think you made
the mistake
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Question:
What’s the difference between parenting and discipline?
Answer: Parenting has to do with things like nurturing,
transmitting values, giving encouragement, maintaining appropriate
boundaries in the family and setting limits on children’s behavior. Discipline
has to do with enforcing consequences when values, boundaries and
limits are not observed.
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Couples & Kids recently
received a grant of $2000 from Target Stores. The grant will be
used to purchase educational tools for Couples & Kids’ programs Healthy
Anger and Before You Hit. Target
is committed to ensuring
the safety of children. Nationwide, Target donates $30 million to
programs dealing with family violence and the arts.
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We offer programs
on:
Parenting after divorce
Drug & alcohol education
Anger management
Family violence prevention
Effective communication
How to really love a child
Be there
Make forts with blankets
Surprise them
Learn about parenting
Stop yelling
Express your love
Bake a cake and eat it with no hands
Say yes as often as possible
Say no when necessary
By Sark
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| Notes:
Norma White, Executive Director of Couples & Kids,
has been named the Lynchburg Area Counselors Association's chapter member
of the year.
Couples & Kids celebrated the opening of their new
state-of-the-art facility with an open house on October 3, 2002. |
"Many
thanks" to portobello road for their work in the creation of Couples
& Kids' new waiting room. You can visit portobello road at 14880
Forest Road, Forest, Virginia.
The Board of Directors of Couples & Kids met on
October 9, 2002.
Norma White attended the Parent Education Network
Conference in September. |
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Therapy, LLC, the office of Abbie White, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, offering speech
therapy, is now located at 110 Vista Centre Drive, Forest, in the Couples
& Kids suite.
There is office space for rent at Couples &
Kids. Call 316-9339 for information. |
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