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	<title>Simi Therapy Tools for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress &#187; Parenting</title>
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		<title>Bad grades on report card? What to do next</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/bad-grades-on-report-card-what-to-do-next/977/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/report-card.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Report card grades" title="report card" /></a>Fall semester report cards are coming! This is a very important time to evaluate your child&#8217;s situation at school. If you see a &#8220;bad&#8221; report card, and you&#8217;re not sure what to do next, here are some good ideas on &#8220;Dealing with Disappointing Grades&#8221;. If you want to delve further, here are links to two [...]


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		<title>How to &#8220;fight fair&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes to argue, but if we need to have a argument, it certainly helps to have some conflict resolution skills.  Everyone can benefit from learning how to &#8220;fight fair&#8221; &#8212; couples, family members, co-workers &#8212; all of us can benefit from better skills. The link for &#8220;Fighting Fair to Resolve Conflict&#8221; is from The [...]


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		<title>Kids bored?  Try these two sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just for fun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 2 websites that are fun in different ways, for kids.  One you&#8217;ll probably visit over and over again, if you like to do fun things in the kitchen.  It&#8217;s called Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons, and is full of fun ideas to try with your children. The other is one of the [...]


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		<title>Social skills group for Asperger&#8217;s teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you know a teen or young adult with Aspeger&#8217;s in Ventura County, here&#8217;s some great news. There are free social skills groups for teens and young adults, ages 12-28, in Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura. And one for adults 30 and older is forming in Ventura, as well. They aren&#8217;t run as a therapy [...]


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		<title>Divorce survival and recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/divorce-survival-and-recovery/734/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some questions that often come up when dealing with divorce.  If you are in the process of recovering from divorce, considering divorce, or trying to help your children live with divorce, we hope that you find some useful information here.   If you have further questions, please don&#8217;t hesitate to call our office.  You [...]


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		<title>Away from your children? Be there!</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/away-from-your-children-be-there/697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/away-from-your-children-be-there/697/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/flat-daddy2-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Life size image" title="Flat Daddy" /></a>One of the hardest parts about being deployed in the military is being away from one&#8217;s children. It&#8217;s tough on the soldier, tough on the spouse, and especially tough on the kids. Leave it to technology to find a way to help! Last November, I read a great article in Parade Magazine called &#8220;Wish You [...]


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		<title>How to help your child make friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in grade school, I had a few very close friends, but I always wished I was more &#8220;popular&#8221;. In 7th grade, there was a typical &#8220;friend drama&#8221;, and for awhile those particular friends didn&#8217;t like me. It wasn&#8217;t fun, and I was lucky that it resolved itself, because I surely didn&#8217;t know [...]


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		<title>Predictable routines predict less anxiety in children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new long-term study out from Timothy Monk of the University of Pittsburgh that concludes that babies who have consistent wake and sleep times, play periods, and regular intervals between meals, will have less anxiety about new situations and environments as they get older.  He studied 59  1-month old babies, and followed them for [...]


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		<title>Parenting class for parents of children age 3 to 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help Your Child Succeed in School,and in Life! Chi1d-Parent-Relationship (C-P-R) Training for Parents of  3-to-9-Year Olds.  A strong parent-child relationship is the foundation for your child’s future success. However, the demands of parenting often leave parents feeling frustrated, out-of-control, and with little time to focus on relationship quality. Leonore Schuetz, MS, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, [...]


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		<title>Cyber-bullying: do you know what it is?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/computer_girl.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="computer_girl" /></a>If you think the term bully refers only to the “mean kid” at school, think again. These days, bullying has risen to a whole new level, thanks to the internet, cell phones, and our whole “wired-in” mentality. Because words spread like wildfire over the internet, cyber-bullying is a far more damaging phenomenon than that “mean [...]


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