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Children who eat dinner with their families do better in school and are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, or develop eating disorders.  A study found Americans rank 23^rd out of 25 countries when it comes to family meals.

Demonstrate that giving back is the most important thing one can do.  You can teach this with money.  If you hand a kid a quarter to drop into the local street corner animal shelter container, they are just delivering YOUR money so nothing is learned.  Sometimes kids need to know how it feels to help others with the sacrifice of donating their own money.  This also works with donating some holiday and birthday presents and Halloween candy to the sick or poor.

A great way to reduce sibling fights is to give them chores to do jointly.  This will teach them co-operation and builds trust.

To reduce sibling squabbles, spend a few minutes each day alone with each child.  This way they won’t be jockeying for the parent’s attention.

Check back tomorrow for an amazing way to teach siblings co-operation.

When siblings between the ages of 3 and 7 are together they tend to fight 3.5 times per hour.  Studies show that these fights tend to last a total of 10 minutes.  Check back tomorrow for ways you can reduce sibling arguments.

Do you think you know what children want the most from their parents?  Toys? Vacations?  Money?  Time together?  Surveys show that children want for their parents to be less tired and stressed.  This response beat out spending more time with their parents and wanting a bigger allowance.  If you can reduce your stress and exhaustion, you may improve your relationship with your children.

Every generation seems to have a serial killer hyped up by the media.  Many of these serial killings could have been prevented if people saw the early warning signs as children.  These infamous killers’ violent acts towards people were first directed at animals when they were kids.  Notorious murderers including Dennis Rader (BTK Killer), Jeffrey Dahmer (cannibal), Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler), and Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper) all tortured and killed many animals in their youth.  As they got older, they transferred their enjoyment for inflicting pain and murder on people.  If parents, teachers, coaches, neighbors, etc. saw the warning signs when these murderers were still children, then they may have been able to prevent the atrocities that were to follow in the years to come.

If you witness animal abuse, report it immediately.  YOU may be the one to not only stop the pain of an innocent animal but also save our society from evil bloodshed in the future.

Acts of cruelty to animals are symptoms of deep mental problems.  Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals don’t stop there.  Many of these abusers move on to hurt people as well.  According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler, murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.  Studies have shown that violent and aggressive criminals are more likely to have abused animals as children than criminals who are considered non-aggressive.

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To unspoil a child, they need to learn how to earn the items they want to have. Children need to feel a connect between work and money. One way to teach them this is to pay commissions and not allowances. Therefore they will earn money towards items they want for doing chores and tasks. They will learn that if they work, they will get paid. If they do not work, then they will not get paid. That is the rule for parents in the real world, so it might as well be for kids too.

Often treating sleep apnea in children results in an improvement of behavioral problems.