Parenting Tips, Sleep 6 Habits that Help Your Kids Get a Better Night’s Sleep Sleep is vital for children’s bodies and brains. According to the National Sleep Foundation, the younger we are, the more sleep we... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips “This one has a motor!” — Raising Active Kids When my daughter was four years old, we visited a friend with a large cat. The cat was heavy, but my daughter struggled mightily to pick... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens Who Has Come to Live with Us? Adolescence Brings Big Changes Many parents experience such dramatic changes in their child between the ages of 11 — 14 that they feel like an alien has taken... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Temperaments, Toddlers Raising an Emotionally Resilient Child Parents strive to support their children through life’s ups and downs but sometimes it’s hard to know how to help. The... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens Tips to Stay Connected with Your Teen Adolescence is a time when children and parents begin to spend less time together. It is a time when teens begin to develop their... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips A Different Approach for Daily Routines: 6 Steps for Success Parents often struggle on a daily basis to get their kids to do the most basic tasks. Requests to get dressed, brush teeth, put away... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips Why Don’t Behavior Charts Work? Whenever I walk into a preschool or early elementary classroom and I see a behavior chart, I cringe. One child who couldn’t... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls How to Achieve Summer Camp Planning Flow Have you signed your kids up for summer camp yet? No? Now that I’ve been doing this for a few years, I feel like I have achieved... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Technology vs. the Art of Conversation Increasingly we rely on technology, email, voicemail, Facebook, Snapchat, and texting to communicate with others. It is not uncommon for... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Tips Five Ways to Celebrate the Miracle of Hanukkah with Children Hanukkah is upon us. Menorahs, dreidels, latkes, jelly doughnuts, gelt, and of course presents. Given its proximity to Christmas,... Continue Reading
