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 Tips, Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Weathering the Storms of Adolescence: To Hold on or Let Go? During the storms of adolescence it’s a tricky balance for parents to know when to offer support and when to let go. We all want... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls May is the New December: How to Get to Summer With Your Sanity Intact Does your family have spring fever? You know the symptoms—lax lunches, half-hearted homework checks, award-ceremony overdose and... 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
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Three Ways to Appreciate Your Child’s Mind “One of the most precious gifts you can offer your child is your attuned, curious, and attentive mind. Yet in the overwhelm of... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Touchpoints: The Contributions of Dr. T. Berry Brazelton The world lost a great parent and child advocate with the death of Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician and author of Touchpoints: Your... Continue Reading
