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		<title>Forgiveness: A Testimonial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the line from the movie “Love Story” that “Love means never having to say you’re sorry?”  What a crock!  John Lennon of the Beatles makes more sense when he explained that “Love means having to say you’re sorry every five minutes.”  Reconciliation and forgiveness are necessary ingredients for any committed couple’s success.  Dr.Terry Hargrave, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Camping: It’s Joys and Sorrows (Ignore the Sorrows Part)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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Camping with the family, woohoo!  Our family loves to go camping.
 If you haven’t tried it, maybe this story will motivate you.  A couple of summers ago my wife and I decided to take our kids to Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park for a couple of nights of camping.  I’m talking about tent camping.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Self Esteem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
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Self-esteem has gotten a bad rap lately. Some people wonder if kids can have too much self-esteem.  I think it depends on what people mean by “self-esteem.”  If people understand self-esteem to mean that we are all winners all the time and therefore are entitled to praise and adoration no matter what, then YES children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Give Up!</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2013/01/10/dont-give-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When life has dealt you an unexpectedly bad hand, its natural to have the quitting impulse.  The quitting impulse, when followed through with, is too often a miscarriage of destiny and God&#8217;s plans for your life.  This can range from quitting a game before it ends, ending a marriage prematurely, to suicide.    Don&#8217;t give up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cell Phone Contract for Parents and their Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2013/01/09/the-cell-phone-contract-for-parents-and-their-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cell Phone Parent-Child Contract
The majority of the U.S. population has smartphones now, and more kids know how to work smartphones than know how to tie their own shoes according to TheAtlantic.com.   We’ve entered a new era, parents!  It’s an era in which parents must step up and hold their children accountable for the privilege [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adults Need Recess Too!</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/10/25/adults-need-recess-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
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Yesterday at the office the nurses decided they needed a break.  After they stepped outside for some fresh air, they observed the leaves falling steadily from a nearby tree.  On a whim, they decided to try and see how many leaves they could catch before they fell to the ground.  They were darting around and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blending Families #2</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/10/24/blending-families-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently worked with a couple that is a good example of the challenges faced in blended families.  This couple, married about 2 years now, each brought two children into the marriage.  His two children (ages 8 and 10) were only there every other weekend and one evening during the week.  Her children of about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blending Families #1</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/09/25/blending-families-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader has asked me to write an article about “blending families.”  In all the years that I’ve written this column I was surprised that I haven’t covered this topic before.  This is an important topic, because currently the U.S. Census indicates that approximately one third of children today are living in blended families. Studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem Behavior: Reaction to a Situation or a Disorder?</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/08/21/problem-behavior-reaction-to-a-situation-or-a-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/08/21/problem-behavior-reaction-to-a-situation-or-a-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Childhood Disorders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine this scenario: A 9 year old boy we’ll call “David” is brought in for counseling.  His parents are concerned about his angry outbursts.  They describe him as usually a mild-mannered and well-behaved child until this last year.  The parents have been getting reports from his 3rd grade teacher that David often fidgets, blurts out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taming the “Me” Monster: Getting out of your Self.</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2012/06/22/taming-the-me-monster-getting-out-of-your-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend/colleague and I recently had a discussion about motivational speakers and televangelists who try to convince us that we deserve to be happy and are entitled to serenity.  While this is an attractive concept, it can actually rob us from living a full and whole life.  This sounds paradoxical, but really the more we [...]]]></description>
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