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
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Beyond Sibling Rivalry The sink is plugged, the car has a flat tire, and Melinda needs help with a school project due tomorrow. On top of that, the kids... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Being Grandparents It is so exciting to have a new grandchild, and, of course, all we want to do is help! We’ve “been there,” having raised a... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Orange Is the New Family: Remarriage, Step-Parenting, and Strategies for Successfully Blending Families Wouldn’t it be fantastic if blending families were as easy as it appeared on The Brady Bunch? In reality, it is one of the more... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Temperaments Separation Anxiety—An Ongoing Challenge of Parenthood Just when you think you and your child have triumphed over her separation challenges, fall arrives and school begins. Your three-year... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Toddlers Guiding the Very Young Child What is the proper discipline for the child of 3, 4, or 5? Just as sirloin and sushi are not suitable foods for infant, so elaborate... Continue Reading
