Birth - First Year, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers Sacrifice, Joy, and 12 Tips for Surviving as New Parents Some regard parenthood as the ultimate “sacrifice” in life because it requires us to put another life before ourselves. It’s no... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Preparing for Kindergarten Too Early? “To learn a thing in life through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the... Continue Reading
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
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Toddlers Communicating and Connecting with Your Children Let’s face it: All children and parents struggle with communication at some point. Some kids seem to have an almost infinite... 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
