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Parenting Articles by Anne Beaty

Meet Anne Beaty
Parenting author and extraordinary mom

It is with great pleasure and pride that I introduce Anne Beaty as a new writer on the parenting front.

Anne is a dear friend of mine. She is kind, generous, intelligent, articulate, fun and a very wise mom. After months of arm-twisting, Anne has finally agreed to share her wisdom with us by writing pertinent, well-written and timely parenting and family articles which I think you will love and from which you will learn much.

Read on for great advice, inspiration and plenty of "ah ha" moments.

• Communication
  "At its most basic, communication is the exchange of thoughts, ideas, stories, etc., between two or more people. It is the key to understanding another person; it is the balm that soothes all wounds."
  
   

• Fear & Respect
  "As parents, we have to ask ourselves: do we want our children to fear us or respect us. 99 percent of us, I believe, will say ‘of course we don’t want them to fear us, of course we want them to respect us’, but we deal with our children in a way that is guaranteed to instill fear. And, unfortunately, we do not usually respect that which we fear."
   

• How Children Learn
  "We all know the truism that children learn what they live. A child raised in an abusive household is many times more likely to become an abuser than a child raised in a non-abusive household. Children who are molested are at great risk of becoming molesters. Children who are constantly bullied at home, will tend to be bullies at school."
  
   

• Unconditional Love
  Unconditional love has two parts to it: that you have taken the time and effort to actually understand who that child really is, and that you love them without reservation. It does not mean you have to love, or even like, everything they say or do, but that you have grasped the essence of that human being, and you love it, no matter what.
   

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Anne Beaty is the single mother of one son, who graduated from Vassar college in 2005. She was a Special Education T.A. for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 10 years, middle and high school, where she dealt with learning and behaviorally challenged inner-city, minority, and immigrant students, most of whom wouldn't have known a manner if it bit them on the leg. At the moment, she is raising her 16 year old niece. Email Anne at: Anne Beaty

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