ParenTips by Dr. Marilyn Heins

ParenTips provides busy parents with commonsense advice, skills and strategies for everyday parenting. These skills and strategies WORK, not every time with every child, but often enough so you will see a difference in your child's behavior. You will feel happiness and a deserved increase in parental pride; you're getting it right!

It is my hope that these ParenTips will solve your parenting problems and answer your parenting questions. Happy parenting!
  -- Marilyn Heins, M.D.

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CONTEMPORARY PARENTING ISSUES
Issues arising out of the communities
and culture in which we raise our children
Absent Fathers
Adoption After Foster Care
Answering Tough Questions
Appearance and Appearances
Catastrophes in the News
Cell Phones & Parenting
Children's Access to the Internet
Children: To Have or Not To Have?
Chores
Chores II
Chores in the White House
Childhood's Lost Wilderness
Combat Consumerism!
Conserving Our Environment
Death of a Child
Death of a Parent
Delay a Divorce?
Deployed Dad
Divorce
Divorce Mess-BIG!
Divorce Prevention: Premarital
Divorce Proofing Kids
Divorce Vows
Does it Take a Village?
Don't Be a Parent Wimp
Economic Crisis: Parents
Economic Crisis: Children
Family Meals
Fathering From Afar
Fathers of a Certain Age (NEW!!)
Fathers: Invest in Your Kids!
Fathers are Important
'Good' Divorce
Grandparents
Guns
How to Teach Values
Interfaith Marriage
Joint Custody
Kind Kids
Latch-Key Kids I
Latch-Key Kids II: Any Benefits?
Making Time Count
Manners
Manners Revisited
Maternal Employment
Maternal Employment: Re-Entry
Maternal Employment: Morning Rush
Movies
Nudity
The Nurture Assumption
Only Children
Parental Flip-Flopping
Parenting in the New Millennium
Perfect Divorce?
Pets I: Things to Think About
Pets II: The Rewards
Play: More Important Than Toys
Post-Divorce Dating
Post-Divorce Plane Travel
Preventing Divorce Regret
Raising Non-violent Children
Restaurants
Same Gender Parenting
Sexuality Today
Sexualization of Young Girls
Single Mothers
Single Mothers: Chore Partner
Social Networking and Parenting
Stranger Danger I
Stranger Danger II
Sudden Death of a Parent
Teaching Kids Patience
Teens Avoiding Non-custodial Parent
Terrorism
Terrorism's Aftermath
Time Thieves
Toy Guns or Not?
TV
TV and the Developing Brain
TV Disaster News (NEW!!)
TV Revisited 
Values
When an Absent Father Shows Up
Whirlwind Kids

DISCIPLINE
How to discipline effectively
Aggression in Young Kids
Alternatives to Spanking
Alternatives to Spanking II
Children Want To Please You!
Consistency
Curb Cussing
Daring Discipline Tactics
Defiance
Discipline Do's
Discipline Don'ts
Discipline-Phobia
Do No Harm!
The Effective Command
The Effective Command Revisited
How to Stop Spanking Your Kids
Losers in a Power Struggle
Power Struggles
Praise Can Do Harm!
Sassing
Spanking

PARENTING SKILLS
Parenting Strategies 101
Attention!
A Useful Parenting Strategy
Creative Parenting
Dividing Your Attention
Do We Expect Too Much Of Our Kids?
Don't Be Afraid of Your Kids!
Dream Thrower
Grown-Up Parents
How to be a Strong Parent
"It's Not Working!"
Learn to Talk Right! Part I
Learn to Talk Right! Part II
Overparenting
Parenting Books
Parenting Job Description
Parenting Pitfall #1:Giving Too Much
Parenting Pitfall #II:Expecting Too Little
Parenting Skills (General)
Parenting Skills (Specific)
Parents Are Teachers
Peaceful Home
Picking Parenting Battles
Raising Responsible Children I
Raising Responsible Children II
Re-entry After You've Been Gone
Remedial Parenting
Saying "NO!"
Scared Parent Syndrome (SPS)
Smile: Your Default Expression
Strategic Parenting
Stop Hovering
Take a Parental Time-Out!
Top 5 Parenting Strategies
Underparenting
Whisper Power

HEALTH AND SAFETY
Raising our kids healthly
and keeping them safe
ADHD
Anorexia
Asperger Syndrome
Buy Naked Food!
Caffeine and Kids
Carbs and Kids
Circumcision
Don't Drive Drunk!
Emergency!
Fast Food
Fat Kid? Change Family Life Style
Fat-Proof Your Kids
Feeding Disorders
Fight Fat!
Food Fights
Food Safety
Flu or Cold?
Frequent Visits to School Nurse
Hospitalizing a Child
Junk Food and Mindless Eating
Keeping Kids Safe
My Child is Too Fat
My Toddler Won't Eat
Never Break a Safety Rule!
Nutrition I
Nutrition II
Obesity
Parental Safety Lapses
Prescription Drugs: Questions
Psychiatric Diagnoses; Psychiatric Drugs
Sick Kids I
Sick Kids II
Strength Training for Kids?
Swimming Safety
Vaccination Fears
Vegetarian Diet for Kids?
Vitamin Supplements for Kids?
Won't Eat Vegetables
When to Call the Doctor
Wash Your Hands!

SCHOOL AND LEARNING
Every parent's concern
Arts Education
Bilingual Households
Chess & Learning
College Readiness
Conversation
Curiosity
Curiosity II
Extracurricular activities
Gifts That Grow
Home Schooling
Homework
Kindergarten:Start Early?
Kindergarten Readiness
Middle School Kids Today – Part I
Middle School Kids Today – Part II
Music Lessons
Parent-Teacher Partnership
Past and Future
Piano Practice
Poetry
Preschool or Not?
Presidential Parenting
Raising a Gifted Child
REACH!
Reading Households
School
School Clothes
Summer Camp
Summer Learning
Talk! Point! 
Valuing Education

TEENS
Alcohol
Baby Sitting
Can I Trust My Teen?
Dating
Driving
Involve Teens in a Family Crisis
Parenting Strategies for Teens
Preteens
Sassing Teen
Smoking
Teen Condom
Teen Contraception
Teen Privacy
Teen Talk
Teen Telephone Usage
Teen Responsibility
Teens and Money
Teens Who Make Bad Choices
Teens Who Make Good Choices
Teens whose Parents Hover
Teens without Means
Waking up a Teenager

WORRISOME BEHAVIORS
Help with behaviors many children will exhibit
Breath-Holding Spells
Conduct Disorder
Delayed Speech
Lying in Little Kids
Lying in Older Kids
Nail Biting
Nail Biting Revisited
Nightmares
Stealing
Stuttering
Superactive Kids
Whining I
Whining II