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Understanding Self-harm and Dealing with It

November 7, 2022 By Val Gonzales 4 Comments

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Self-harm is a growing phenomenon in many developing and developed societies. Self-cutting can be treated with the help of professionals.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Values and Character Tagged With: dealing with self-cutting, self-cutting, self-harm, understanding self-harm

Practical Principles for Effective Parenting

August 28, 2021 By Val Gonzales Leave a Comment

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Effective Parenting is more of an art than an exact science. It is applied with due consideration of the uniqueness of the family unit with its surrounding circumstances.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: discover giftedness, effective parenting, love languages

On Fatherhood and Fathering

June 18, 2018 By Val Gonzales Leave a Comment

Several years ago I came across the book, “Fatherless America” by D. Blankenhorn. It brought me to sadness on so many levels. First, the children. What happens to them as they grow up without a father to guide and to provide? Secondly, the society. How will the greater community be impacted by the phenomenon? As […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: absentee dads, blessedness of manhood, D. Blankenhorn, fatherhood, fathering, Fatherless America, growing children, Happy Father's Day, parenting, Singapore

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Val Gonzales is an educator, minister, psychotherapist, and amateur photographer. He has served in Southeast Asia and North America. He is happily married with two well-adjusted grown-up children.

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