How To Help Your Kids Cope With Reality
*Shared with permission from “First Time Parent Magazine.
30 Ways To Make Your Kid Smarter
What kind of future do you envision for that preschooler who is trying to get you to taste a mud pie? Chef? Entrepreneur? Scholar? I hope you’re not waiting to see how smart your well-meaning mini-me is, because that’s not how it works. Smart isn’t what you are. Smart is what you become. The good…
Making Wonderful Holiday Memories During a Not-So-Wonderful Time- Part 3
NO APOLOGIES! Don’t feel guilty about not buying the toys being glorified by advertisements. The purpose of giving is about conveying love. Advertising narrows our perception about what conveys that love, and creates inappropriate guilt in us for not showing love the way they want us to show love. Forget them! Find a way to…
Making Wonderful Holiday Memories During a Not-So-Wonderful Time- Part 2
Welcome to the Season of Mixed Blessings! A time when the relief of not having a full house for the holidays is mixed with missing the love and energy family brings. A time when the reduction of income because of the pandemic is offset by not being able to go shopping for gifts anyway. This…
Making Wonderful Holiday Memories During a Not-So-Wonderful Time- Part 1
Happy Holidays!!! Be of Good Cheer! In this year of drastic changes, here’s how to pivot your holiday for the better. Be proactive, and your family will follow. Start by alleviating your children’s fears during these unsettling times. Say this: “Things are changing, and we’re going to change right along with them. We’re no strangers…
Are You Creating Panic With Pandemic Entertainment?
“A lot of TV shows and films shut down production in light of the coronavirus. Now that they’re following protocols and back on set, some narrative storylines in series like “This Is Us” and the upcoming season of “Grey’s Anatomy” are focused on what we’re all experiencing in 2020: mask-wearing, social distancing, quarantining, healthcare, the…
Taming the Holiday Tantrum – Part 2
Our daughter’s tantrums push our buttons, no doubt about it. However, if you reframe your perspective on what’s actually happening, you can keep your own emotions from joining the door-slamming party. Last post I responded to some questions on navigating tantrums (including handling yourself). These questions were generated from another post I wrote a while…
Taming the Holiday Tantrum – Part 1
A while back I wrote an article about navigating tantrums, which generated quite a few questions. Question #1: Why would a meltdown by an 18-year-old be a tantrum? Does that mean that people of all ages can have one? Question #2: Is a tantrum in teenagers just a meltdown by any other name? Question #3:…
How Can I Help You?
But, at that point I had 15+ years of parent-teen relationships under my belt from my career. Plus, I had discovered my superpower- helping parents bridge the growing gap with their kids.
The Curse of the Cherub
To this day we don’t know where her little self picked it up. Not that it matters. As parents we do the best we can with the time allotted, filling those moments with love and learning.
National Child Health Day
3 Tips to Honor National Child Health Day Hmmm… a day set aside to observe child health? If the Powers That Be were serious about child health, they’d ban the sales of junk food for the day, or at least ban their advertisements so parents would be less inclined to pick up junk for their…
The Great What-If…
Do you feel intimidated by the idea of teaching science to your student? Is your student turned off by science? If so, a little re-framing is in order. Science is hands down the most exciting and fun part of learning, plus it encompasses all the other disciplines (reading, writing, math, statistics, history, life skills, geography,…