Keep It Simple—Parenting Doesn’t Need to Be Hard
Kids don’t come with instruction manuals and parents don’t get training on how to parent. As a result, parenting can seem to be very hard for many parents, sometimes even...
Make Parenting Easier by Ending Back Talk and Bad Attitudes
Kids don’t come with instruction manuals and parents never get any training on how to parent. This can make parenting seem like an insurmountable challenge, especially when kids argue, roll...
Chores: Why Kids Need Them
Chores can provide kids with opportunities to learn important lessons about responsibility, perseverance, and humility. Over the years, we have learned that children who contribute to the family, without reminders...
Getting Your Child to Listen
You can train your child to hear what you say the first time that you say something. You can also train them to ignore you. Children who listen to their...
Modeling Healthy Relationships
It seems that many parents are concerned that their children aren’t motivated to love and respect them back, and they wonder why they have dysfunctional relationships with their kids. No...
Instead of Praising, Notice and Describe
Kids will soon return to their classrooms and parents will start supporting their academic endeavors as the school year unfolds. To help their kids develop a positive self-image, parents often...
Five Simple Steps to Help Kids Solve Their Own Problems
Too many kids grow up being unable to confront life’s problems and they end up making poor decisions. As parents and teachers, we want our kids to grow into adults...
Teens and Distracted Driving
Distracted driving comes in many forms, ranging from changing a radio station, to having a conversation with someone in the vehicle, to texting or talking on a mobile device. The...
Natural and Generic Consequences
A recent blog was about the myth of needing to deliver consequences immediately, and how delaying consequences helps give parents time to decide on appropriate consequences. What are appropriate consequences?...
