Teaching kids to share may feel like a never-ending effort to re-program your children. It seems that most little ones are born with the instinct to not want to share. Start early teaching your kids to share; it is a social skill they need so they can play cooperatively with friends and siblings and so…
How to Deal with Your Child’s Aggressive Behavior
Kids will push, pull hair, bite, and express themselves aggressively. This should come as no real surprise. Kids lash out because they’re frustrated by a problem that feels too big for them. They haven’t learned how to control their impulsive behavior or how to work out conflict in an acceptable way. Even though your child…
Speak These 5 Truths Into Your Kids Every Day
Are you speaking truths into your kids? You tell your kids many things every day. When it’s time to get up, what they need to remember to take to school, that you will pick them up after practice, and a multitude of other pieces of information, the most important being I love you. However, as…
When You and Your Spouse Argue About Parenting
It’s not unusual for parents to argue about parenting. We all come from different homes where we were treated differently as kids. One home may have had yelling and reactive parenting role models while the other had more passive and wavering. This causes fights between Mom and Dad, which results in more family conflicts and…
The 10 Commandments of Healthy Communication
Healthy communication is the lifeblood of the family. It is the glue that holds families together. It is the grease that keeps the family wheel running smoothly. Communication is the ability to share emotions, feelings, desires, and information. But not all communication is healthy communication. Just because there is a lot of talking going on…
Raising Fearless Children: 5 Ways to Nurture Bravery
Raising fearless children, whether on the ball field or in the classroom, is a good goal for every parent. But what if your child struggles with fear? Fear of failure? Fear of risk? Fear of not being good enough? Where does this fear come from? It shows up in children without any warning and you…
Tips for Helping Your Kids Establish Healthy Eating Habits
How will kids learn to eat healthy? They will learn by copying the important people in their lives. A study on imitation and mirroring processes explains that children often use observational learning to attain skills, ideas, and beliefs. This is why as their parents, it is your job to be a good role model and make healthy…
3 Ways For Parents To Minimize Stress
Are there ways for parents to minimize stress? Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. In other words, Parenting = Stress. The adversity which causes stress comes at work, in traffic, in friendships and most definitely at home. The kids won’t cooperate, the spouse…
Letting Go of Your Teen
Letting go of your teen should not be so hard, right? After all, they can seem pretty self-sufficient. Many parents I’ve talked with bemoan the fact that their teen spends way too much time in their room or on their phone or they are barely at home. Parents may think that because their teens seem…
5 Things That Parents Sacrifice For Their Children
Parents sacrifice things for their children all the time; sleep, money and time are the obvious things they relinquish. Parenting is a sacrificial job, no doubt about it. But sometimes parents must learn to sacrifice above and beyond and in ways that they had not anticipated. These five sacrifices are ones that all parents should…