How’s your child’s youth sports season going? This spotlight on youth sports post focuses on an athlete’s hard season and how you can help turn it around. As a life coach, I’m a big advocate of parents coaching their kids. Not the sports kind of coaching, but the life kind of coaching. If your child…
5 Daily Habits That Will Help Your Family Thrive
So you want to have a happy, healthy family? The fact of the matter is that you are what you repeatedly do, so if you are not practicing healthy family habits, then the chances are pretty slim that you are going to have a thriving, happy family. Your family will never change until you change…
7 Parenting Mistakes That Hurt My Relationship With My Kids
Parenting Mistakes cannot be avoided all together, however, I do believe we can cut down on them when we are aware of the potential traps. I made a lot of parenting mistakes throughout 31 years of parenting. I couldn’t begin to share all of them with you! But I can pinpoint the biggest ones because…
Parenting Anger: What Do You Do When Your Kids Set You Off?
How good are you at controlling your anger when your kids push your buttons or do something to set you off? As a parent, there were too many times when I handled some situations in this order: React, and then reflect. Typically, when that happened, it would often be followed by regret because I may…
Tired of Conflict? Here’s One Way to Cut Down on Clashes
Conflict in youth sports is inevitable because anywhere there are people, there are differing personalities and clashing opinions–the result? There’s always going to be struggles. But what if you knew a way to cut down on the strife? What if you figured out that you could leave the relational boxing gloves at home in the…
4 Traits of a Happy, Healthy Family
Because every family is different, there are really no one-size-fits-all parenting strategies. But there are some common traits that a happy and healthy family exhibits. Whether you are a blended family, single parent family, large family, only child family, divorced family, adoption family–the following characteristics and family habits will help you lay a strong foundation…
What Do You Do With Your 7,000 Words?
Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit–You choose! Every day, you will speak at least 7,000 words (some people a whole lot more!). Those words are your imprint on the world. They dictate how people perceive you – and largely define you. How many of the words that you spoke yesterday made…
What’s Your Game Plan When Life Throws You a Curve Ball?
Do you have a game plan for handling turmoil? For facing an unexpected curve ball that life can sometimes throw at you? No matter how much you’d like to, there are things in life that you simply cannot control. Whether it’s a job loss, a divorce, kids who don’t make the cut on the team,…
How to Use Your Most Power Parenting Tool
The tongue is probably your most powerful parenting tool. If you’re like me, you have days when you use it wisely and generously and feel great about your parenting skills and patience. And then there are those days that you wish you could press re-wind and take back words that you said. Sometimes those were…
7 Parenting Defaults That Suck You In Before You Realize It
All of us are creatures of habit. And it’s no different in parenting. The longer we do it, the more we find ourselves defaulting to behaviors that we do without thinking twice. Good or bad, they’ve become a way of life. The problem with defaults is that they are usually the most basic, the most…