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
Birth - First Year, Parenting Tips The First Year Thrilling? Now You Need Some Chilling Little do we know during pregnancy that almost every waking minute immediately postpartum will be filled with baby-related tasks. All of... Continue Reading
Occupational Therapy, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Special Challenges 6 Sensory Room Ideas to Help Your Child Motor development for a child involves the ability to process the sensory information in their environment—touch, movement, sight,... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? Who Me? A new study out of McGill University re-evaluated an age-old question about children’s honesty over their misbehaviors.*... Continue Reading
Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Is Using Your Phone Affecting Your Child and Family Life? Do you recall life before cell phones? The days when mothers and caregivers strolled with their young and talked to them on the way to... 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, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Toddlers Moving from Shame to Healing Hitting, biting, spilling, pushing, yelling, and fighting, followed by scolding, correcting, apologizing, teaching, guiding—again and... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, School Challenges, Toddlers Getting Kids to School Trying to get our kids out the door on time in the morning can be a frustrating and exhausting endeavor. Even when we start off... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Toddlers Bedtime Happiness Go to Bed Happy, Wake Up Happy Developing a harmonious and rewarding bedtime routine results in a happier family — day and night. One of... Continue Reading
Education, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, School Challenges 7 Things To Do While Waiting for College Acceptances For many high school seniors, December marks the end of the marathon college application season, an event that can span several years.... Continue Reading