Maybe it's an innocent comment like, "Ewww, Mama,your breath stinks, don't kiss me!" or maybe it's an angry outburst - name calling and slammed doors. Some things are hard not to take personally. Do you ever find yourself thinking or saying any of the following? You are making me so angry right [...]Continue Reading
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Phrases to Help You Stay Calm When Kids Are Moving Slow As Molasses
We've all been there - stuck between a clock relentlessly moving toward an appointment and a kid oblivious to time passing. Whether it's being late to school, sports practice or a dentist appointment, kids moving slow when it's time to go is maddening! Here are some helpful phrases to keep kids on [...]Continue Reading
How to Build a Habit of Listening to Your Kids
To be listened to is to be validated for who you are. Sometimes the only thing we need is that one person who will truly listen and hear what we need to say. They don’t need to solve it for us or give advice - we just need to be listened to and accepted in order to access our own ability to [...]Continue Reading
Gratitude Sprinkler Experiment – can we change complaints to gratitude?
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
Five Power Words To Make Your Kids Confident
As a children grow, it's often their parents who form and shape their self-confidence. As your child learned to walk, you were probably there on the sidelines offering encouragement and comfort when they fell. By way of perseverance, your child learned the skill after many attempts. Children learn [...]Continue Reading
Parenting Secret Mission: Rediscovering Respect
Your mission this month will strengthen the foundations of good communication in your family and lead to more responsible, respectful kids. You mission: Rediscover respect. Why Rediscover Respect? Respect is something we tend to understand in it's absence - noticing when someone has [...]Continue Reading
