Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. This is especially true when you are sharing responsibilities with someone — raising children, taking care of financial assets, and looking out for each other’s emotions. But people slip up, trust wanes, and struggles arise. Just like love, trust requires hard work, good communication, and renewed connection. It’s all part of building a healthy marriage and family. So who do you really, truly trust? If your answer is not immediately “my partner,” you have some work to do.
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It’s not just about getting rid of the nastiness you feel, but replacing it to build back the good stuff that was originally there, the reason you were in the relationship to begin with.
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How to Discipline a Toddler
If your kid isn’t developmentally ready for discipline, it’s not his or her fault. The point of discipline, says parenting expert Catherine Pearlman, author of the book Ignore It!, is behavioral training — creating consequences to prevent actions from happening repeatedly. If the child is as yet unable to mentally link the consequence to the action, you’re just screaming into the void and your child isn’t sure why.
Instead, Pearlman recommends redirection. If your kid won’t stop throwing a toy, take the toy away. If that infuriates your little darling (it will) regale them with silly voices. “They don’t need to be punished at that age, they just need to stop doing what they’re doing,” Pearlman says.
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We’re proud to present Fatherhood, a parenting book that focuses on dad without assuming he’s a hapless dummy (because, he’s not). Divided between three practically and emotionally challenging stages of parenting — birth, infancy and toddlerhood — the book is full of expert driven advice on parenting, with over 900 studies and 20 quoted experts on topics from family values (Dr. John Defrain tells you how to develop them) to discipline (Berkley’s Dr. Celeste Kidd explains why it’s more about parents) and roughhousing (Bareknuckle Boxing Champ Ulysses “The Monster” Diaz on how he does it). For the newer parents, there are also more practical skills like dressing, feeding, burping, swaddling, and packing a diaper bag. This is a book that a dude will return to again and again. Pre-order it now for you or a friend and get the first copies on November 9.
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