I never intended on becoming a parent. It’s a long story for another time, but having children was not in my plans. Then at 40 years old I became pregnant, not planned, and my world came crashing down. My husband and I weren’t married at the time. All that ran through my head was “how… [Continue Reading]
What does it mean to invest in a child? What type of “investments” are most important? What is the best way to go about investing in them? Here are five ideas anyone can follow: First of all, we all have something to invest, whether it be time, energy, money, or a combination thereof. Sadly, these… [Continue Reading]
Let them make a second dinner they like, take off the time limits on the computer, not be their friends on Facebook, no grounding for bad grades, let them text at the dinner table, not check in where they are at, wake them when they oversleep, don’t remind them to brush their teeth or take a shower or… [Continue Reading]
Hi! I’m Julie and I am an enabler! Yep, I figured this out (with a bit of help from my therapist – OK, a lot of help from my therapist!) recently. You see I got crossed up along the parenting way. The confusion came on slowly and was not even recognizable until it was too… [Continue Reading]
I saw a picture of my daughter today, sleeping. She looked so peaceful and happy. How my heart ached for her, missing her as well as wishing her face looked the same when she was awake. Life has taken a turn that a year ago we had not foreseen. She is my alphabet soup girl;… [Continue Reading]
Back in 1996, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote a book called “It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us”. She got a lot of flack when she wrote the book, including Bob Dole’s quote “With all due respect, I am here to tell you, it does not take a village to raise… [Continue Reading]
We tell our children that they need to be A+ kids, and there are only three things they have to do to accomplish this. These three things are to be respectful, responsible, and fun to be around. When you think about it, pretty much any behavior can fall in these three areas, and therefore if… [Continue Reading]
Have you ever gone to bed on a bad note? You know, not used your best parenting skills at bedtime, maybe? Remember how yucky you feel about yourself? Well guess what? Our kids feel bad about themselves too if they end the day on a sour note. So what can we do that would be… [Continue Reading]
One of the hardest things for me to learn in parenting my RAD kiddos is that it is NOT about child behavior management or child behavior problems. You see I am very, very skilled in organization and behavior management, so parenting them thus far has been successful mostly due to this. However, as is seemingly… [Continue Reading]
James Lehman created The Total Transformation, a comprehensive, multi-media program offering parents practical solutions to the most challenging problems facing them from their children, including disrespect, lying, swearing, defiance and acting out in school. James Lehman, MSW (Masters of Social Work) worked for more than 30 years with troubled teens, children, and their families to… [Continue Reading]
What exactly are positive parenting skills? As far as we're concerned, positive parenting skills are the skills we’ve acquired through the last 19 years of parenting our five children. We … Read More
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