When Should Children Begin to Use Deodorant or Antiperspirant

When Should Children Begin to Use Deodorant and Antiperspirant?
The first signs of puberty is the growth of pubic hair. During puberty, girls will also begin to perspire more heavily. Chemical changes in puberty cause body odor. This can be terribly embarrassing for children, especially girls.
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Trouble Sleeping? Try Ear Plugs

Having Trouble Sleeping? Try Ear Plugs to Reduce Noise
Sometimes falling asleep and staying asleep isn't as easy as counting sheep. Many people suffer from lack of sleep for many reasons. Can't fall asleep because it's too noisy? Try one of the many kinds of reusable or disposable ear plugs.
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Breathe Right Snore Relief Nasal Strips Sleep Aid Product Review

Breathe Right Snore Relief Nasal Strips Product Review
I have snored heavily all of my life. Before I discovered, via a sleep study that I had sleep apnea, I tried every kind of stop snoring cure on the market. Breathe Right Snore Relief Nasal Strips was one of the first products I used to stop snoring.
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Childcare to Caregiver Ratios

Babysitters, Children Home Alone and Caregiver to Child Ratios
State laws are very strict about licensed caregiver to child ratios. Caregiver to child ratio depends upon age of child and size of group. Unfortunately, laws are less clear about age and ratio for at-home babysitters.
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Flatulence, Gas and Possible Food Allergy

Stomach Gas, IBS, Flatulence: Possible Symptom of Food Allergy
Passing stomach gas. It embarrassing and smells foul. Some men think passing gas is funny. However gas build up in the stomach, especially bad smelling gas, can be a symptom of food allergies. Gas formation can be an allergice reaction.
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Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex

Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex: What it Looks Like and Feels Like
I have struggled all my life with a hyperactive conscience. I feel a sense of guilt constantly. I'm writing this series of articles to reach out to any of you who suffer from guilt complex and overactive conscience. What is a guilt complex?
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Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex: How to Help

Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex: How to Help Someone Who is Too Hard on Themselves
Do you know someone with overactive conscience or guilt complex? These people have exaggerated feelings of personal culpability and responsibility. They are hypercritical of themselves. How can you help a person who is too hard on themselves?
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Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex: Quit Shoulding on Yourself

Overactive Conscience and Guilt Complex: Quit 'Should'ing on Yourself
Are you plagued by a constant sense of failure? Do you struggle with guilt complex and low self-esteem with no real cause? Sounds like you're a victim of overactive conscience. How can you heal this problem? Quit 'should'ing on yourself.
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Babysitter's Safety Checklist Guide

Babysitter's Personal Safety Checklist: What Teen Babysitters and Parents Should Expect
Babysitting; most all teen girls and some tweens have worked as a babysitter. Babysitting for boys is a less common after-school job. Here is a safety precaution checklist for parents of babysitters. Use this list to protect your teen when she babysits.
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Causes of Depression: Toxic Shame

Causes of Depression: Toxic Shame
Depression is singly responsible for a pandemic of physical and emotional health issues. Depression sprouts from many root causes. Like dandelions, depression is difficult to weed out. Toxic shame, that soul poison, causes many depressive episodes.
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Treating Depression: Participating in Your Own Recovery

Treating Depression: Participating in Your Own Recovery
We say in psychology that a person must be willing to 'participate in her own recovery'. A depressed person must see that he needs help, get treatment and do what it to get healthy. Sadly, this is often what a depressed person cannot do.
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Understanding Depression: Reflex Response and Nervous Habit

Depression as Reflex Response to Stimuli: Managing Depression One Day at a Time
Depression can be a reflexive response to many root causes. Like Hercules' battle with Lernean Hydra depression seems to grow a new head every time one is cut off. Quelling depression, or learning to manage it, is a one day at a time process.
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Understanding Depression: Nervous Emotional Disorders

Understanding Depression and Nervous Emotional Disorders
Depression is pervasive, insidious and baffling. What does depression look like? Don't overlook depression just because a person looks happy. Depressed people have a high pain tolerance. Depression is like emotional leprosy.
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Understand Adolescent Brain Development: Lack of Fear; Thrill Seeking

Understanding Adolescent Brains; Lack of Fear Means Need for Excitement
Adolescent brains have adult capacity but lack the restraint that comes with age. The brain of a teenager has developed intellectually, but doesn't understand cause and effect and consequences. This leads to a need for excitement and danger.
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Understand Adolescent Brain Development: Concrete vs. Abstract Operations

Parenting Teens: Understanding Adolescent Brain Development
The brain of a teenager has developed for the most part, to its full adult ability. Teens progress from concrete, two-dimensional thinking to abstract thinking. Adolescents brain neurons are firing at a rate unparalleled at any other time of life.
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Understand Adolescent Brain Development: Selfishness, Fairness, Ethical Behavior

Understanding Adolescent Brain Development; Empathy, Selfishness and Self-Care
Parenting is a challenge. Parenting a teenager can seem like a monumental task. The adolescent brain has all adult capabilities. But the teen's sense of fairness and ethics has not completely formed yet, so many healthy teens seem ruthless and selfish.
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Stinkin Thinkin, Toxic Behavior and Detachment in Relationships

Stinking Thinking and Toxic Behavior: Mental Detachment
In a relationship with stinking thinking and toxic behavior? If someone you love has stinking thinking with toxic behavior you need to detach. Your job is to keep yourself safe. Emotional and mental detachment is one method.
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Drug-Free Sinus Headache Remedies

Drug-Free Sinus Headache Remedies and Treatment
Sinus headaches and seasonal allergy headaches can be crippling. Sometime nothing cuts the headache besides medication. Other times it is possible to find drug-free relief with these simple easy tips.
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