Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Positive Parenting Which tools are in your parenting toolbox? Having worked with families for decades, we are familiar with various approaches to... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers How to Understand and Respond to Your Child’s Behavioral Issues As parents we wish we could subdue our children’s outbursts with a gentle re-direction. In some cases this works beautifully. But,... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips No Such Thing as Perfect: How to Help a Child Struggling with Perfectionism Picture a child who keeps a tidy, well-organized desk in class, a remarkably clean bedroom at home, makes sure his or her homework is... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Does My Child Need to See a Therapist? Soon after I had my first child, I remember passing a billboard with a baby sitting in a diaper that said “These don’t come with... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Positive Re-Direction—The Most Valuable Tool in Your Parenting Toolbox Your 14-month-old is climbing on a chair and you are afraid that she will fall and hurt herself. Your 3-year-old is playing in the sand... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Technology Rabbit Hole This Way … How to Help Your Kids Manage the Pull of Technology The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Giving Your Child Feedback? Read This Feedback First How often do you find yourself giving your child a compliment in preparation for a criticism? “I love that enthusiasm, but please keep... Continue Reading
Bullying Prevention, Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls 5 Ways to Help Your Child Silence Their Inner Critic “I’ll fail the test!” “Nobody likes me!” It’s not uncommon to hear your child utter self-critical statements like these from... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Toddlers From Helplessness to Action: Empowering our Children to Create a Better World Mr. Rogers’ phrase “Look for the helpers” has been especially resonant lately, as we have watched youth mobilizing around the... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Technology How to Stop Facebook from Hijacking Your Attention We all live in the Attention Economy The most precious thing we can give to anyone or anything, particularly to our children, is our... Continue Reading