Even though none of us is ever going to be perfect, every new competency we conquer does have a long-lasting impact on our children, from understanding how to teach children self-control, to helping them gain confidence, to learning how to gain their cooperation (so we don't resort to yelling).

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Here we teach discipline, order, control, and we try to show that a football player can be a star without being a 'show-off', just by making your team-mates better.

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If anything this ban will teach us the benefits of portion control.

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What we can do, says Dr. Alex Crosby, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is teach coping skills so that when an individual is faced with any number of risk factors for suicide, he or she will have a level of inherent protection and the tools to combat suicidal behavior.

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All of these adventures teach players how to use their movements to control the action on the screen.

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Therapies to teach people how to pay attention to and control their movement to limit this pain might help, he said.

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The government's signal reform involves freeing schools from local-authority control, letting them set their own budgets, alter their hours and change how they teach.

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