I started an experiment a couple weeks ago: whenever one of my kids starts randomly complaining to me, I am randomly making gratitude statements. Just spewing them out. I'm grateful this! I'm grateful that! I become like a gratitude sprinkler. So yesterday my daughter was complaining about an [...]Continue Reading
dealing with anger
How to Stay Calm and Get Your Child to Stop Yelling at You
As I mentioned before, loud noise is definitely one of my anger triggers. My kids know this anger trigger well, and inadvertently I taught them that yelling, or complaining really loudly for a long time is a great way to hit my buttons. Since I had few tools in the past to handle yelling, [...]Continue Reading
Top 10 Posts of 2016 – anger calming skills, gifts for dads, books we love and more
word cloud of top 2016 posts Whether we were learning to calm down or trying to figure out how to get parenting back on track, one theme that remained constant this year was a desire for simplicity. We have so many resources out there, but how can we make sense of them when our days are often [...]Continue Reading
Gifts of a Bike Crash – Healing the Scrapes on your Soul
This week I had an experience that gave me a physical reminder about how important it is to care for myself if I want to be a connected, positive parent. I took a fall on my bike and managed to very badly scrape my forearm. It was gross. I won't go into it more, but it's the kind of wound that [...]Continue Reading
We’re Learning to Take the GRRR Out of Anger
One thing I never expected with parenting was how much learning I would do on dealing with anger, and how difficult this emotion would be for me to deal with in my kids! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. I've been reading "" with them, and we made a poster together this morning - [...]Continue Reading
Parenting Reminder for the Hardest Days – Printable
When I published Parenting from the Dark Pit it was met with support and caring. I feel incredibly grateful for the community of readers who are so kind. One of the responses to that post about the hardest days of parenting was a list of what one mom needs to remember when she is in the dark pit, [...]Continue Reading
