Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Tips Why Can’t We Be Friends? I call 4- and 5-year-olds the “adolescents of early childhood” because, emotionally speaking, they are going through many of the same... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills, Toddlers What’s Your Story? The Magic of Storytelling “Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens Seeking Balance in Our—and Our Children’s—Lives For parents, January is the month when we begin planning for activities for our children for the rest of the school year and for summer.... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills A Witching Hour Guide Getting Safely — and Happily — from Kansas to Oz Do you dread the time between when your kids get home from school and dinnertime? Are... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills 10 Ways to Learn in Your Own Backyard Many parents worry about summer slide, the learning loss that can occur while school is out for the summer. Great news: There is a... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills READY, SET, GO! Making the Most of the Summer before Kindergarten I remember getting up at 5:00 am and waiting in line in the dark to register my not yet 5-year-old daughter for an array of what seemed... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills Parents, Give Yourselves a Break You’re tired, cranky, and short-tempered. You feel that you have no life outside of your spouse, kid, and job. Does this make you... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Occupational Therapy, Special Challenges Going to the Movies with Your Sensory-Defensive Child As I was trying to come up with a topic to share on this particular blog, I thought about a challenge one of my young clients recently... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills, Raising Boys, Raising Girls PJ’s, Cheerios, and Saturday Mornings … Throughout the course of my work as a parent coach, I have often heard parents express concerns about their children’s behaviors... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills Nine Ways to Enjoy Nature in Winter Many of us are somewhat removed from nature in our everyday lives. This is especially so during the winter. Yet despite winter’s... Continue Reading
