After surveying and talking to hundreds of parents during the quarantine season, which is still going on for many, I learned that many of you want to figure out a way to prioritize family time post-lockdown. Maybe you’re one of those families that enjoyed just hanging-out together, or perhaps you re-discovered the joy of game…
When You Feel Like a #ParentFail
Your #parentfail may or may not shock your child, but it still affects how you feel about yourself as a parent. Look up #ParentFail on social media and you’ll see a lot of humorous parenting stories. Here’s a few I found on twitter: Well potty training didn’t go so well. I guess I can’t let…
How to Practice Patience With Your Children
In a recent parent survey I sent out regarding the challenges parents face during this Covid19 crisis, I heard one thing over and over: parents wish they had more patience with their children. Patience is one of those things we wish and may even pray for, but still it feel like it’s an unreachable goal…
Two Lies That Parents Are Believing During Covid-19
There are some lies going around that parents are believing in this season of Covid-19. In the easiest of times, when things are “normal,” parents often get sucked into believing things about themselves and their parenting that are not true. That happens because many of us are our own worst critics. We may believe that…
How to Make Your Family Work Together as a Team and Create More Harmony in Your Home
Does your family know how to work together as a team? Or do you find yourselves fighting about way too much and looking for ways to avoid each other instead of connecting and working together? Your family is a team. Just like your workforce is a team or the athletes on a team are a…
19 Ways to Love Your Family During Quarantine…and Every Day
If you missed the webinar on April 10, 3 Parenting Tools to Help You Parent in the Trenches of COVID-19, here’s the replay for you: webinar. Yes, we are living in a crisis resulting in a quarantine. No, nothing is normal. But even in the midst of the unusual circumstances we find ourselves in, one thing…
3 Things Parents Need to Know About Themselves as They are in Quarantine
If you missed the webinar last Friday 3 Parenting Tools to Help You Parent in the Trenches of COVID-19, here’s the replay for you: webinar. Everyone is talking about how we can look at this crisis as an opportunity to grow and about the importance of not wasting it. I’m guessing that those encouragements are…
3 Things Parents Need to Know About the Teens they are in Quarantine With
Do you remember what it was like as a teen? Being a teenager can be scary and awkward. The emotional highs are up in the clouds and the emotional lows are down in the dumps. It can be a tough season for the whole family, even more so in these stay-at-home times. How are you…
20 Things to Do to Survive The Coronavirus “Stay at Home” Order
If you are like me, you are just about done with this whole “staying at home” way of living. If you have settled in and are actually enjoying the isolation, more power to you! Please tell us your secret! I read an article recently called 27 Things to Do and Feel During the Coronavirus-Induced Slowdown…
10 Ways to Make Family Memories When Your Life is “On Hold”
I know that these are uncertain and rather scary times. For many, your world has been turned upside down, and we all face days filled with question marks. I want to take a few minutes to encourage you. First of all, please know that this will end. Only God knows the timing, but it will…