Category: Parenting

How Do I Navigate My Emotions to be Available to my Kids?

Parenting is stressful! The goal is not to eliminate stress all together since that is impossible, however children learn constantly by watching our behavior. We have the responsibility to prepare them for life and one of these important life skills is to learn how to deal with stress. Children experience stress and anxiety early in … Continue reading “How Do I Navigate My Emotions to be Available to my Kids?”

Educational Resources During Extended School Closures

Dear Parent, Congratulations, you’re hired…for a job you never applied for! You have been promoted to educator extraordinaire – a position for which you quite possibly feel woefully ill-equipped. While I will warn you up-front, the pay is substandard, I assure you, the benefits are unparalleled. Upon learning of the extended school closures put in … Continue reading “Educational Resources During Extended School Closures”

When is it Time for your Adult Child to Leave Home

Who would have considered such a situation as we brought our newborn home from the hospital? We have dreams for their future and our lives together, so how could I end up in a situation where I need to ask my child to leave my home? This decision is complicated by the current parental trend … Continue reading “When is it Time for your Adult Child to Leave Home”

Kids Deserve Better Than a ‘One Size Fits All’ Education

If the services and accommodations your child is receiving in school have proven insufficient for them to make progress with the standards, we can help. Has your child been swimming or drowning in an ill-fitting, one-size-fits-all classroom? At a theme park last weekend, we came across a family of tourists of varying shapes and sizes, … Continue reading “Kids Deserve Better Than a ‘One Size Fits All’ Education”

How to Help a Teen Who is Cutting

I can still remember the way the blood looked on the white paper that sat on my desk. At the age of 13 I had a sudden urge to find a razor blade and cut into my wrists. The words “cutting” and “self-harm” were foreign to me. I knew of no other person in my … Continue reading “How to Help a Teen Who is Cutting”

Helping our Children Succeed

We got an email from our daughter’s second grade teacher today. The teacher shared some of our daughter’s strengths, explained her areas of challenge, noted the accommodations that are currently being provided per her 504 plan, and asked what ideas we had for helping her improve her focus. Although this interaction was positive, it sent … Continue reading “Helping our Children Succeed”

Anger Energy & Kids

Teaching kids how to manage their anger can ironically cause us to feel frustrated. We might become frazzled trying to figure out how to state what we think is obvious. Sometimes we forget that they are learning how to deal with their emotions as they develop. Just as we have to teach them how to … Continue reading “Anger Energy & Kids”

How to Be Present with Children

With all the pressures of our daily lives it can be difficult to be present with those we love.  Our ‘To-Do’ list can be a mile long, thus keeping our minds in the future rather than the here-and-now.  This may not seem to be an issue while we’re conducting our daily activities, but when our … Continue reading “How to Be Present with Children”

Discipline – Why and How

Why… The reason we discipline our children is not so we can have a sense of control over another person, but rather to: Guide Train Protect I view children as little aliens to this world and the adults in their lives are here to help them learn the ways of humans. They will not know … Continue reading “Discipline – Why and How”

Follow-Through

“My kid doesn’t believe me when I tell him I’ll be at his soccer game.” “I can’t get my child to listen to me.” “My daughter stopped asking me to play tea party with her.” “My little girl won’t follow the house rules.” These are statements that have been voiced by frustrated parents. After some … Continue reading “Follow-Through”