In parenting, prevention is incredibly important. However, many families do not have clarity on what “prevention” looks like. To assist with that, I thought I would share three tips on how you can take a preventative stance in your parenting and avoid some issues later on. It’s really much easier than you might think.
When school starts, so do after-school activities. Some families like to expose their children to several different enrichment activities and keep them pretty busy. Just keep an eye out for overwhelm, fatigue and not enough down time. Children need to be enjoying their life. We all need to stop and catch our breath on a regular basis. Overbooking kids creates
Parenting is a journey … a long one. One of the most important aspects of that journey is the relationship that you build along the way. That relationship is created in daily life, in ordinary moments like going back to school.
Somehow as parents we think if we have a tough season in parenting, we are doing something wrong. Sometimes that is correct and we are
Have you noticed how much our world has changed since we were teenagers? We were exposed to things on a much different level than young
Do you ever feel like you need to be someone else in order to implement “tough love”? Is it not quite who you are, but
We may not say these words, but we think them. We somehow expect our children to ignore what they see and only do what they
Co-parenting within a marriage is different than co-parenting after divorce. Add a remarriage, and it gets even harder. A seemingly innocent request from a child can quickly be the catalyst to arguments and upset. I’ve been co-parenting post-divorce for 25 years. We don’t have it all worked out, but we have found some basic how-to’s that I can pass along.
Do you remember when phones actually plugged into the wall? When I was growing up, our phone was in the kitchen and no one had
Some might think if their strategy worked with child #1, they can use that same strategy with child #2. Great idea! Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work. In fact, rarely. No matter how many children you have, no two ever seem to be the same. There are no shortcuts.
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