Birth - First Year Anxiety After Baby: Do You Have It? What if you’re a new mom and instead of feeling exhilarated, you find yourself feeling very anxious, sad, irritable or lonely?... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills Join in the Fun! Family Fun Day in Palo Alto is May 1 **** This article was written in advance of Family Fun Day in 2015. Family Fun Day 2019 is coming up on April 28, register here > The... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Take Care of Yourself: 3 Easy Habits As parents it’s so easy to become focused on helping our children to cultivate good habits. We know how important it is for kids... 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
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, School Challenges, Special Challenges Separation Anxiety For Children At School Separation anxiety is one of the most painful types of anxiety because experienced, anticipated, and perceived separations are so... 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 Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year and other Midwinter Holidays with Kids Around the world, people who live in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the mid-point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.... 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
