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How to Help Your Kids Cope With Disappointment Without Fixing Everything for Them

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It was a Tuesday afternoon in late October, and my 10-year-old had been counting down the days to his baseball team’s end-of-season party. He’d talked about it for two weeks. And then, the morning it was supposed to happen, his coach sent a cancellation notice. Weather. Scheduling conflict. It didn’t matter — the reason was

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How to Build Strong Sibling Relationships When You Have Multiple Boys at Very Different Ages

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Some mornings I walk downstairs to find my 15-year-old and my 6-year-old sitting together on the couch, the older one patiently explaining something about a video game while the younger one listens with wide, devoted eyes. And then there are the mornings where those same two are at each other’s throats before breakfast is even

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