Ken Potts
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Mom and Dad may have split, but they still need to be partners in parentingFeb 23, 2014 12:01 am - We talk a lot about single-parent families. Some experts suggest that a majority of children will, at one time or another in their lives, live in a single-parent househo...
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When opportunity knocks, think twice before answeringFeb 16, 2014 12:01 am - A friend of mine recently went for the "Big Promotion" at work. It was all he could think about and talk about for weeks. As is often the case, the process got delayed ...
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Navigating the challenges of being a single parentJan 30, 2014 9:39 am - This is the third installment in a four-part series. As many as half of today’s children will experience divorce. That means they will also spend a time, short or long, ...
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Tips for helping children survive their parents' broken marriageJan 26, 2014 5:00 am - This is the second installment in a four-part series. Our children are always influenced, positively or negatively, by the quality of our marriages. Needless to say, th...
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Quality of parents’ relationship affects kidsJan 19, 2014 5:00 am - This is the first in a four-part series. It may sound like just plain common sense: What goes on in our families affects what goes on in us. For a long time, however, ps...
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Don’t assume children think, reason like we doJan 12, 2014 5:00 am - Grocery stores are a great place to study people. The other day I was winding through the aisles behind a young mother and her little girl, about 3 or so, who was sitti...
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Tips for knowing when to get involvedJan 02, 2014 7:47 am - A friend of mine asked this question, and it’s a good one: “How do we know when our attempts to help other people actually do more harm than good?” We begin with the be...
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What I’ll do when I win the lotteryDec 26, 2013 12:59 pm - I don’t pay a lot of attention to the whole lottery thing. I have to admit, though, that when the payout gets up in the hundreds of millions of dollars I find myself day...
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Parents: ‘When I was your age’ usually doesn’t workDec 19, 2013 9:39 am - “When I was your age ...” Most kids roll their eyes when they hear those five words from their parents. They know that whatever comes next is probably not going to be t...
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Let adult children know when your home is no longer their homeDec 12, 2013 10:04 am - It was great news. Their 27-year-old daughter was resigning from her high-pressure West Coast job and moving back to the Midwest. Or, at least, it was great news until s...