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Have you ever wondered when your crying baby will rest peacefully? Tried every game and disciplinary action in the book to get your child to eat peas?

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Teach your child to manage his anger by giving your child words for his feelings.

Anger often escalates when a child feels misunderstood. Simply enabling your child to communicate by giving names to his feelings can help him feel more calm and be understood.

Is it safe to say that all of us as parents at one point or another have asked our children to apologize? Apologies are transparent when you think about it. The ‘I just want to get out of trouble and get this over with’ apologies are really obvious. With these types of apologies there is li
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The Food Wars

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OK - maybe it's not that bad, but navigating the sensitive tastes of a picky eater can create a lot of frustration for parents!

Does your child seem stuck on a handful of foods? Here are some tips for expanding the number of acceptable choices. Is the family dinner a nightmare of special requests? Read about ways you can avoid becoming a short-order cook.

Coach Nancy offers more advice on children and nutrition and links to resources you may find useful. You might also head over to the New York Times (registration required but it's free), where Lisa Belkin discusses the down side to hypervigilance about your child's eating. You may also find a lot of useful perspective and advice in the readers' comments following Belkin's blog post.