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Column: How to improve your communication with your kids
Column: How to improve your communication with your kids
Column: How to improve your communication with your kids
7/2/2021
By Jasmine K. Bassett and Rebecca Menge
For the Pacific Daily News
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Parent-child relationships involve communication and interactions to prepare “tweens” ages (10 through 12) and teens (ages 13 through 19) with skills and abilities to make healthy decisions. Each year hundreds of thousands of young people engage in risky and negative behaviors ranging from trying a cigarette for the first time to becoming addicted to prescription drugs.
Parent-child communication doesn’t start at middle school; it starts at the very beginning of life. Open dialogue between parents and children builds on top of many topics with time. [...]
  Jasmine K. Bassett is an extension associate and Rebecca Menge is an extension intern
at the University of Guam's Cooperative Extension & Outreach. This feature is part
of a series in the Pacific Daily News showcasing free Cooperative Extension & Outreach
publications that can be found online at www.uog.edu/extension/publications. The authors can be reached at bassettj7270@triton.uog.edu and menger@triton.uog.edu. |
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