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
Adoption/Post-Adoption, Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Raising Girls The Rights of Children: “Born to be Wild” Whenever I see a group of children tear across Crissy Field or the beach, it makes me stop and watch with pure delight. To be free with... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Mommy Fatigue What better day to write about “mommy fatigue” than this one? Last night, as I tiptoed in to check on my peacefully sleeping girls, I... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips The Parenting Highway Balancing Nurture and Structure in Your Relationship with Your Child As a parent, you’ve probably come across the idea that we all... Continue Reading