<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ecb1b5b-6e60-4b57-a515-5e64020ca59d/F0214E61-A85A-4680-A699-1E75E8D85FDA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><P>The experts say selfish adults are raising a generation of unhappy kids. Mother of four Joanna Moorhead begs to differ.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html">Childhood, says a report out this week, is in crisis – and it is, of course, the adults' fault</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.independent.co.uk/img/4D179AB6-A26A-4DF9-AD26-5B8EFB5242F4" alt="Supper mum: Joanna Moorhead with her daughters Rosie, 16, Miranda, 10, Elinor, 14, and Catriona, seven and with Elinor" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html">The report bashes us over the head with a quaint message about the good old days of family life that never really were. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html">here are 10 suggestions for what we can, and should, do better. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><B>Tone down the consumerism </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><P><B>Say what you mean and mean what you say</B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><P><B>Don't forget to laugh!</B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><P><B>Don't preach - be a role model</B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><B>Don't feel bad about being a working parent</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><P><B>Remember you don't have to be a perfect parent, just a good one</B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><B>Get help when you need it</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/how-to-raise-children-a-10point-guide-to-domestic-bliss-1546134.html"><B>Communicate more with your kids</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0214E61-A85A-4680-A699-1E75E8D85FDA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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