Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Special Challenges Taming Your Anxious Child’s Worry Monster Nearly all children will have fears or worries at some point during childhood—fears of the dark, of heights, of spiders, or monsters.... Continue Reading
Birth - First Year, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Making Room for Baby Number Two! 6 Tips to Help Your Toddler Once the excitement of pregnancy with your second baby wears off and reality sets in with the baby’s birth, you may find yourself... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Helping Kids Adjust during Separation and Divorce Helping Kids Adjust during Separation and Divorce Time and again, research suggests that parental conflict is a strong predictor of how... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips 6 Steps to Help Children Resolve Conflicts and Solve Problems Conflict resolution and problem solving are two of the most important skills we can teach our children. Think about it … Being able to... Continue Reading
Adoption/Post-Adoption, Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips 11 Tips for Handling Your Child’s Anger “Do not teach your children never to be angry. Teach them how to be angry.” Wise words from theologian and author, Lyman Abbott... Continue Reading
Israel, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips 5 Ways You Can Help Your Kids Feel Safe in an Unsafe World Fires, car accidents, plane crashes, earthquakes. Shootings in schools, movie theaters, and airports. War and terrorism … the list of... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips From Greed to Gratitude: The 6 Things You Can Do to Raise Kids Who Feel Empowered But Not Entitled During the holidays and throughout the year, kids seem to have an insatiable appetite for stuff—the must-have toys, the most on-trend... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers “Mine, Mine, Mine!” 7 Ways to Encourage Sharing “We have to share!” If you’ve uttered this phrase recently, you probably have a toddler. And you’ve probably been met with... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Tokens, Points, and Stickers, Oh My! Top 3 Pitfalls of Behavior Goal-Setting As the new school year approaches, many parents are dusting off their child’s sticker charts and behavior systems in hopes of... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, School Challenges Preparing for a Successful School Year Heading back to school can be an exciting time for some kids and daunting for others. Some love the anticipation and can’t wait to... Continue Reading
